Léa Taranto

EVENTS

Upcoming Events

• Featured Panelist alongside Whitney Gardner, Mahtab Narsimshan and WIBA Winner with Moderator Sara Leach in Whistler Writers Festival Reading Event 13: The Honest Voice, Sunday November 2, 10:00-11:00AM 4599 Chateau Blvd, Whistler, BC
• Visiting Author for Authors in the Schools Program, Monday November 3, 1:15PM-TBC, Whistler Secondary School
• Workshop Facilitator for Virtual Event Finding True Stories in Everyday life with Léa Taranto Thursday, November 6, 11:00AM (EDT)
• Mentor for The Writer's Union of Canada's Inaugural Creating Mentorship for Deaf and Disabled Writers Program Application open until October 24, 2025, 11:59 pm PT / 2:59 am ET

Past Events

• Tabling author at Richmond Public Library's author booth event Writers for Readers, October 7, 2025
• Featured Panelist alongside Dr. Keiko Honda and Miranda Newman for The Writer's Union of Canada Webinar Navigating Publishing as a Writer with a Disability, September 24, 2025
• Featured Author Alongside Tanya Boteju for Word Vancouver Event Voices of Courage, YA, September 20, 2025
• Contributor Reader for The Fiddlehead's Special Creative Nonfiction Issue Launch Celebration, September 20, 2025
• Featured Author Alongside Samantha Jones, Drew McEwan, and Madelaine Caritas Longman for virtual event, An Evening of Poetry and Literarture, July 26, 2025
• Featured Author Alongside Chelsea Comeau for Spoken INK Reading Series, July 20, 2025
• Featured Performer at Parallel Visions Exhibit, July 15, 2025
• Reader at Burnaby Heights Open Mic at Peaked Pies July 13, 2025
• Informal Signing at Noorongji Books June 20, 2025
• Featured Author Alongside Natalie Lim for Pages and Passages Reading Series, June 17, 2025
• Toronto launch for Léa's debut novel, A Drop in the Ocean, in conversation with Drew McEwan, May 29, 2025
• Vancouver Launch for Léa's debut novel, A Drop in the Ocean, with guest reader Yilin Wang moderated by Catherine Lewis,
  May 21, 2025
• Presenter for Vancouver Writer's Fest Writers in the Classroom Event at Alcuin College May 20, 2025
• Featured Performer at Connection Salon's Mad Arts Coffee House Series April 24, 2025
• Featured Performer at Poetic Pairings, February 19, 2025
• Featured Reader at Vancouver launch of Upon a Midnight Clear: More Christmas Epiphanies November 16, 2024
• Featured Reader and Panelist at the joint book launch Diaspora Debuts, National Public Reading Program,
  November 12, 2024
• Featured Reader and Panelist at the launch of Yilin Wang's book, The Lantern and the Night Moths,
  Vancouver Public Library's Uplift Asian 2024 Series, April 3, 2024
• Featured Reader at Real Vancouver Writers' Series Winter 2023, November 23, 2023
• Featured Reader at Small Gods Storyteller Series vol. 7, November 5, 2023
• Featured Reader at The Writer's Studio Reading Series October Session, October 16, 2023
• Featured Reader at Room Magazine’s 43.3 Issue Zoom Launch, October 24, 2020
• Featured Performer at Chagall Exhibit, October 20, 2016
• Featured Performer at New Work from the Road Exhibit, January 28, 2015
• Featured Performer at Lashon Hara Exhibit, June 19, 2014
• Featured Performer at Rain Exhibit, September 27, 2012
• Featured Reader at The Liar’s Volume 9 Fall 2012 Issue Launch Party, December 10, 2012