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Craig Clark
19 Feb 2020

Margaret Atwood will be appearing at Hamilton’s gritLIT Festival this year

One of Canada’s most celebrated authors, Margaret Atwood, will be coming to Hamilton as part of the line-up of authors speaking at gritLIT in April. Atwood will be part of the festival’s o...

Craig Clark
10 Feb 2020

Hamilton author releases book that challenges ableism in classic fairy tales

The First Unitarian Church is hosting a book launch this Wednesday for the release of Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability and Making Space by Hamilton-based author Amanda Leduc. Disfigured challe...

Craig Clark
10 Dec 2019

Book about Chedoke Creek wins big at this year’s Hamilton Literary Awards

A prescient book about Chedoke Creek, the location of #sewergate that has been making the new in a big way recently, won big at the annual Hamilton Literary Awards last night. Congratulations to Jo...

Craig Clark
03 Dec 2019

The Hamilton Literary Award winners will be announced next week

Celebrating 26 years of recognizing vivid, evocative, and exceptional Hamilton storytelling. The Hamilton Literary Awards return on Monday, December 9th at Theatre Aquarius to announce this year̵...

Craig Clark
09 Nov 2019

Monarchs By The Sea book launch and illustration collection at James Street Bookseller and Gallery

We are in the midst of the fall reading series, fall book launches and other fall literary events. It’s great to see Hamilton’s literary scene thriving with an explosion of independent boo...

Michael Kras
24 Sep 2019

Award-winning author Lawrence Hill is giving a talk in Hamilton

If you love Canadian literature, you’ve probably heard of Lawrence Hill. The acclaimed author of award-winning titles such as The Book of Negroes and The Illegal, Lawrence Hill is also a member of ...

Craig Clark
08 Sep 2019

Margaret Atwood speaks about Handmaid sequel in Hamilton

Since Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel The Handmaid’s Tale became an Emmy-award winning television show, the image of the handmaid’s red gown and white hat has become a symbol of women’s rights. N...

Dev Team
14 Oct 2014

Three MORE books by Hamiltonians

Earlier this month urbanicity composed a minute list of notable Hamiltonian authors, in correspondence with Bryan Prince Booksellers. The goal was to introduce readers to the endemic literary talents ...

Dev Team
10 Oct 2014

Three amazing books by Hamiltonians

If you’re anything like me, you can’t keep your nose out of a book. You come up for air only to succumb to the most basic necessities, such as eating, walking, or franticly searching for another b...