Public Events

Celebrate the finalists for the 2025 Toronto Book Awards!

Date: Monday, September 15, 2025

Time: Doors open at 6:30 and the event begins at 7:00

Location: Arts & Letters Club, 14 Elm Street, Toronto (just north of the Dundas subway station)

The Arts & Letters Club, in partnership with the City of Toronto, welcomes and celebrates the shortlisted authors of the 2025 Toronto Book Awards. Please join us to participate in the excitement of meeting and hearing this year’s finalists talk about and read selections from their books. Book signings will take place following the presentations.

The shortlist is:

  • Other Worlds by André Alexis (McClelland & Stewart)

  • Encampment by Maggie Helwig (Coash House Books)

  • The Migrant Rain Falls in Reserve by Vinh Nguyen (Harper Collins Canada) 

  • All the Parts We Exile by Rosa Nozari (Knopf Canada)

  • Unlike The Rest by Chika Stacy Oriuwa (Harper Collins Canada)

  • The Knowing by Tanya Talaga (Harper Collins Canada)

This event, which includes light refreshments, is open to the public at a cost of $37.61 (incl. fees and taxes). Reservations can be made through Eventbrite. Please reserve early since seating is limited.

members at the club bar

Open house
almost every Friday 4-7 P.M.

You are invited to meet club members and socialize in our main floor bar/reception area. We’d love to meet you.

If you would like a tour, we do require that you book ahead. Let us know you’re coming and we’ll work to arrange a personal tour of the building, its facilities and activities.

Note: Open House is occasionally pre-empted by private bookings.

Contact us: 416-597-0223 ext 3, or email visit@artsandlettersclub.ca.