At TYPE: Kerry Clare, Liz Johnston, Alice Fitzpatrick (Livestreaming)

Join us for an in person event at TYPE Books Junction with Kerry Clare, Liz Johnston and Alice Fitzpatrick.

TYPE Books Junction, 2887 Dundas Street West. 6:30pm start. Doors open all day.

You do not need to register if you're joining us in person. PWYC at the door. Registration here is for those who wish to access the live-stream.

Kerry Clare is the author of Asking for a Friend, Waiting for a Star to Fall, and Mitzi Bytes. Her fourth novel will be published in March 2026. A National Magazine Award-nominated essayist and editor of The M Word: Conversations About Motherhood, Kerry also edits the Canadian books website 49thShelf.com, is host of the BOOKSPO podcast, and writes about books and reading at her longtime blog, Pickle Me This.

About Definitely Thriving: Definitely Thriving is "a heartening and hilarious story of a woman who returns to her hometown resolving to build a sensible life for herself after imploding her marriage, and a celebration of the village required for her to make it on her own."

Alice Fitzpatrick has contributed short stories to literary magazines and anthologies and has recently retired from teaching in order to devote herself to writing full-time. She is a fearless champion of singing, cats, all things Welsh, and the Oxford comma. Her summers spent with her Welsh family in Pembrokeshire inspired the creation of Meredith Island. The traditional mystery appeals to her keen interest in psychology as she is intrigued by what makes seemingly ordinary people commit murder. Alice lives in Toronto but dreams of a cottage on the Welsh coast.

From Stonehouse Publishing: Dark Water is the much anticipated follow-up to ‘Secrets in the Water.’ Kate Galway is looking forward to a quiet summer working on her latest novel at her home on Meredith Island.  For a place hardly anyone has heard of, her sleepy Welsh island is attracting a lot of visitors, including a conman posing as a psychic and group of archaeology students who believe they’ve unearthed evidence of a Roman temple.  Part-way through the dig, however, the students make an even more startling discovery: a body ritualistically laid out in their trench.  While intrigued by the murder, amateur sleuth Kate decides to leave this investigation to the professionals.  However, when she learns that both the island mechanic and her university friend’s son are prime suspects, she and hedonistic artist Siobhan Fitzgerald feel they have no choice but to get involved.

Liz Johnston lives and writes in Toronto. Her stories have appeared in The Fiddlehead, The Humber Literary Review, Grain, The Antigonish Review, and The Cardiff Review, among other publications. She is an editor of Brick magazine. The Fall-Down Effect (Book*hug, 2026) is her first novel.

From Book*hug Press: As a child, Fern is the wild heart of her tree-hugging family—quick tempered and yearning to spend every minute in the woods. She is also most like Lynn, who chafes against the demands of motherhood and yearns for the protests of her youth. As tensions come to a head, Lynn leaves her partner Tom and their children, telling herself she’s going to devote her life more fully to fighting for the earth. At nineteen, Fern commits her own radical act of protest, which authorities label ecoterrorism. As she goes underground, her parents and siblings—responsible grad student Sylvia and budding artist River—struggle to make sense of her actions while also trying to cover up her absence. Fern’s secret proves impossible to keep, and when she becomes a wanted woman, the rest of the family trades blame. Reverberations of Fern’s crime follow the siblings well into adulthood, and when Lynn takes shelter from a forest fire in the house she left so many years before, the family is forced to confront their regrets.

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