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

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Purchase by Phone 416-338-7255

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Sep
17
6:00 PM18:00

An Evening with Claire Cameron, Brantford, ON

Brantford Public Library

Join us for an evening with Claire Cameron, acclaimed Canadian author of The Bear and The Last Neanderthal. Her latest book, How to Survive a Bear Attack: A Memoir, is a national bestseller and winner of the 2025 Governor General’s Literary Award in Non-Fiction.

Registration opens on August 17.

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Oct
30
7:00 PM19:00

Oxford Reads Gala, Woodstock, ON

  • Woodstock Collegiate Institute (map)
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Join us for an unforgettable evening celebrating books, readers, and Canadian storytelling at the 2026 Oxford Reads Gala!

Oxford County Library and Woodstock Public Library are thrilled to welcome acclaimed Canadian author Claire Cameron, whose memoir How to Survive a Bear Attack is this year's Oxford Reads selection.

Hosted by Oxford County Warden Marcus Ryan, the evening will feature an intimate conversation with Claire Cameron as she shares the inspiration behind her acclaimed book, reflects on her writing journey, and explores themes of resilience, family, and the stories that shape us.

Event Schedule

  • 6:30 p.m. Doors open

  • 7:00 p.m. Conversation with Claire Cameron and Warden Marcus Ryan

  • 8:00 p.m. Reception and book signing at Woodstock Public Library

Commonplace Books will be on site with copies of How to Survive a Bear Attack and other titles inspired by this year's pick available for purchase.

Oxford Reads brings readers together from across the county to celebrate Canadian literature, spark meaningful conversations, and share in the joy of reading. Oxford County Library and Woodstock Public Library are proud partners in creating this community-wide reading experience.

Tickets are free, and seating is general admission. Reserve your spot.

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Nov
6
12:30 PM12:30

2026 Banff Centre Mountain Film and Book Festival - Banff, AB

Bearing Witness: Bears as Protagonists

Claire Cameron, winner of the 2025 Governor General's Literary Award in Non-fiction is joined by authors Trina Moyles, Gloria Dickie and award winning filmmaker Gabriela Osio Vanden as they reflect on the bears that have shaped not only our imagination through storytelling but also how bears have influenced their most recent works on the page and on screen.

Max Bell Auditorium, Banff Centre

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Sep
9
7:00 PM19:00

Join us to celebrate the launch of Table Boss, Toronto, ON

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You're invited to a private gathering celebrating Jen Agg and the publication of TABLE BOSS!

On Wednesday, September 9th, join Jen for a conversation with Claire Cameron at 918 Bathurst, then continue the celebration at this intimate gathering of Jen’s friends and family at Rhum Corner, with music, drinks, and bites.

Please RSVP to confirm your attendance.

Books available for purchase from Type Books.

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Jun
28
7:00 PM19:00

In Conversation with Maggie O'Farrell

Public On Sale: May 8

Maggie O’Farrell, the bestselling author and Academy Award–nominated co-writer of the TIFF People’s Choice Award–winning film Hamnet, joins us in person for the exclusive Canadian launch of her latest work of fiction, Land: A Novel, one of 2026’s most anticipated books. O’Farrell will discuss Land, as well as her creative process and her collaboration with Chloé Zhao on adapting Hamnet for the big screen, in an in-depth conversation with bestselling author and journalist Claire Cameron.

A soaring historical novel set in Ireland in the years before and after The Great Hunger, Land is a novel about separation and reunion, tragedy and recovery, colonization, and rebellion. Maggie O’Farrell was born in Northern Ireland in 1972. Her novels include Hamnet (winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award), After You’d Gone, The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, The Hand That First Held Mine (winner of the Costa Novel Award), and Instructions for a Heatwave. She has also written a memoir, I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death.

Presented in partnership with Penguin Random House Canada and TIFF.

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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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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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