Graham, Johnston & Maksimowska: Ottawa Book Launch

Sat Apr 18 2026 at 02:00 pm to 04:00 pm UTC-04:00

Anina's Cafe | Ottawa

Aga Maksimowska
Publisher/HostAga Maksimowska
Graham, Johnston & Maksimowska: Ottawa Book Launch
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Join Laurie D. Graham, Liz Johnston and Aga Maksimowska at Anina's Café in Ottawa as they launch their newest books.
About this Event

Books will be sold by Perfect Books.

Food will be sold by Anina's Café.

grew up in Treaty 6 Territory, near amiskwacîwâskahikan (Edmonton, Alberta), and she has lived in Nogojiwanong/Peterborough, in the Territory of the Mississauga Anishinaabeg, since 2018, where she is a poet, an editor, and the publisher of Brick magazine, a journal of literary non-fiction based in Toronto. Her first book, Rove, was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award for the best first book of poetry in Canada. Her second and third books, Settler Education and Fast Commute, were both nominated for Ontario’s Trillium Book Award for Poetry. is Laurie's fourth collection.

grew up in Revelstoke, B.C., and now lives and writes in Toronto. Her essays and short stories have appeared in Poets & Writers, The Fiddlehead, The Humber Literary Review, Grain, The Antigonish Review, and The Cardiff Review. Johnston is an editor of Brick, A Literary Journal. is her debut novel.

is a writer whose debut novel Giant, about premature sexual development and the fall of Communism in Poland, was shortlisted for the Toronto Book Award. Her stories and essays have been published in Brick, The New Quarterly, The Humber Literary Review, White Wall Review, The Globe and Mail, Today’s Parent, and longlisted for the CBC Short Story Prize. is her second novel. She lives in Toronto.

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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Anina's Cafe, 280 Joffre-Bélanger Way, Ottawa, Canada

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