Beloved Montreal holiday book fair pops up online

November 20, 2020 – For arts organizations, as indeed for all of us, 2020 has meant adapting on the fly. Read Quebec: Holiday Book Fest, a joint project of the Association of English-Language Publishers of Quebec and the Quebec Writers’ Federation, is a perfect case in point.

From its launch in 2015, the event initially known as the Holiday Pop-Up Book Fair was a grassroots success, its venues and writer lineups growing every year from intimate beginnings at the Atwater Library. The biggest challenge for organizers was how to keep pace with public demand for an event that quickly became a staple of the local holiday season for readers of English writing in Quebec. Read more