May
3
6:00 PM18:00

Spotlight: How to Survive a Bear Attack, Ottawa, ON

The Ottawa International Writers Festival

GGLA Spotlight: How to Survive a Bear Attack

With Claire Cameron

Hosted by Peter Schneider

We celebrate the Governor General’s Literary Awards with a conversation between Peter Schneider and Claire Cameron , winner of the 2025 Governor General's Literary Award for Non-Fiction.

Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington Street

6:00pm

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Sep
15
7:00 PM19:00

How to Survive a Bear Attack by Claire Cameron - By the Lake Book Club

Presented By City of Toronto, Humber Polytechnic, Faculty of Media, Creative Arts, and Design

How to Survive a Bear Attack, by Claire Cameron, finalist for the 2025 Governor General’s Literary Award in Non-Fiction, investigates a rare bear attack in Algonquin Park while reflecting on her own battle with genetic cancer. Blending nature writing, true crime and memoir, Cameron explores fear, resilience and survival.

By the Lake Book Club hosts six Tuesday-night events from February to December with top Canadian authors and Humber Polytechnics alumni. Each in-person event features readings, discussions, Q&A, book signings and ASL interpretation, while virtual sessions include live subtitles and audio access.

Event Details

  • Assembly Hall 1 Colonel Samuel Smith Park Dr, Etobicoke, ON, M8V 4B6

  • September 15, 2026 at 7 p.m. - 8:45 p.m.

Cost $10.00 - $21.00

Purchase on Website

Purchase by Phone 416-338-7255

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Apr
26
2:00 PM14:00

Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival, Montréal, Québec

PEACE IN THE NATURE : IS IT POSSIBLE?  

2PM_HOTEL 10 (salle Saint-Laurent) 

DISCUSSION _ 60 MINUTES 

 

Nature can have a calming effect on human beings. However, nature is also a place of violence where living creatures fight each other, where some are predators and others prey, before becoming hunters themselves. How can human beings, who aspire to peace – peace of mind, peace of body – fit into the natural world? A discussion between British writer and journalist Wyl Menmuir (The Heart of the Wood, The Draw of the Sea), winner of the Blue Metropolis Planet Literature Prize, and Canadian novelist Claire Cameron (How to Survive a Bear Attack), winner of the Governor General’s Award 2026, both of whom being so close to nature that they have made it the subject of their books, without a hint of sentimentality but rather with profound humanity. 

 

This event is organized in collaboration with the Canada Council for the Arts to celebrate the finalists and winners of the Governor General’s Literary Awards. 

 

Participants:   Claire Cameron, Wyl Menmuir

Moderator: Katia Grubisic

English 

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