TORONTO,
ONT (November 2014) – Toronto author and founder of
Kya Publishing, Stacey Marie Robinson, will be participating in the first
annual INSPIRE! Toronto International Book Fair as a speaker on Dalton Higgins’
“Diversity, DJs, and DIY” panel. The panel, taking place on Sunday, November
16, 2014 from 4:00pm to 5:00pm will look at diversity in Canadian literature
and its place and importance in the Canadian literary landscape. The panel will
also feature Greg Frankson (aka Ritallin), Kayla Perrin, and Leonicka Valcius.
The
Book Fair, taking place from Friday, November 14 through Sunday, November 16 at
the Metro Toronto
Convention Centre, features an exciting lineup of panels, workshops, a
marketplace, and book signings.
As noted on the festival’s
website: “INSPIRE! Toronto
International Book Fair will be part exhibition, part market and part cultural
festival, celebrating reading in all forms and embracing all facets of the book
trade. It will be a place for readers to connect with those who write and produce
the books they love—to learn, explore and be entertained, in all print and
digital formats.”
Robinson, who has just self-published her ninth
novel, Carnival Spotlight, is pleased
to be a part of this national celebration, and also to help bring awareness to
issues of diverse literature and the balance in Canadian literary perspectives.
“I write contemporary Canadian Urban Fiction, which is a
genre that is relatively new in the Canadian publishing scene,” said Robinson. “Striving
to see increased diversity in literature is a circumstance that many of us
writers have been working through for years, and it is just as important as
having diversity in business, politics, the education system, entertainment,
and in the overall identity of this nation. Dalton Higgins is always on the
cutting edge of Canadian cultural topics—I look forward to having this
important discussion with him and the panel he has assembled.”
For
more information about the Toronto International Book Fair, please visit www.torontobookfair.ca.
Kya
Publishing contact: info@kyapublishing.com
or 647-342-3040.