Here are just a few of the literary events happening across the country in the next week:

• Melancthon (7 Directions & the African Reparations Fund) poetry reading with NourbeSe Philip, Jumari Giles, Truth Is, Zainab Amadahy, Sonny Be, and Sedina Fiati, Blue Moon, Toronto (July 22, 9 p.m., $10 or pwyc)
• Don Banting signs Two Shadows Have I, Indigo South Edmonton Common (July 23, 1 p.m., free)
• Dorothy Ellen Palmer, author of When Fenelon Falls, reads with Chad Pelley, The Ship, St. John’s (July 24, 7:30 p.m., free)
• Alison Uitti reads from First Days Night Movies, McNally Robinson, Saskatoon (July 25, 7:30 p.m., free)
• Chevy Stevens signs Never Knowing, Chapters Granville, Vancouver (July 25, 7 p.m., free)
• Farzana Doctor reads from Six Metres of Pavement, Little Sister’s Book & Art Emporium, Vancouver (July 26, 7 p.m., free)
• Misha Glouberman and Sheila Heti launch The Chairs Are Where the People Go, The Garrison, Toronto (July 27, 7 p.m., free)