Appearances - Kim Moritsugu


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Upcoming Appearances

Thursday, May 8, 2008

Reading at Asian Heritage Month Kick-off Event, Palmerston Branch, Toronto Public Library



Recent Appearances

March 29, 2008

Hosting a Humber Writers’ Circle session featuring author Anthony De Sa and agent Sam Hiyate


February 23, 2008

Hosting a Humber Writers’ Circle session featuring author Joe Kertes and editor Barbara Berson


January 19, 2008

Hosting a Humber Writers’ Circle session featuring author Sally Cooper and editor Barry Jowett


December 8, 2007

Hosting a Humber Writers’ Circle session featuring Cynthia Holz and Sarah Heller.


November 29, 2007

Reading at the Elmbrook Park branch of the Toronto Public Library


November 18, 2007

Speaking at the Humber School for Writers’ Stringing Words course for young people


November 10, 2007

Hosting a Humber Writers’ Circle session featuring Rona Maynard and Janie Yoon


October 23, 2007

Reading at the Evelyn Gregory branch of the Toronto Public Library


October 20, 2007

Hosting a Writing About Healing session of the Humber Writers’ Circle


September 30, 2007

Speaking at The Word on the Street festival in Toronto


September 22, 2007

Co-leading the Heritage Toronto walking tour: Hidden Treasures in North Rosedale


August 24-26, 2007

Reading and teaching at the Sleeping Giant Writers’ Festival, Thunder Bay, Ontario


July 15-20, 2007

Teaching at The Humber School for Writers Summer Workshop


June 13, 2007

Private book club


May 28, 2007

Private book club


April 29, 2007

Speaking at “Stringing Words for Young Adults” creative writing weekend workshop, The Humber School for Writers


Thursday, April 26, 2007

7:00 pm
Reading from The Restoration of Emily at the Local Authors Series, Deer Park Library, Toronto


Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Evening
Speaking at a book club dinner meeting organized by Titles bookstore in Peterborough, Ontario


Saturday, March 31, 2007

10 am – 12 pm
Hosting the Humber Writers’ Circle session featuring author Michael Helm and editor Janie Yoon of Key Porter Books


Saturday, February 24, 2007

10 am – 1 pm
Hosting a special Humber Writers’ Circle session on “Lawyers Writing Fiction” featuring authors Andrew Pyper and Diane Baker Mason and publisher Jack David of ECW Press.

creativeandperformingarts.humber.ca/writers/writerscircle.html


Saturday, February 17, 2007

9 am – 11:30 am
Speaking on “How I Beat the Odds and Became a Published Writer” at a breakfast meeting of the Writers and Editors Network in Toronto.

www.wenetwork.org/Events/events.php


Saturday, January 20, 2007

10 am – 12 pm
Hosting the Humber Writers’ Circle session featuring author Nalo Hopkinson and literary agent John Pearce.


Saturday, December 9, 2006

10 am – 4 pm
Hosting a special Humber Writers’ Circle session on “Writing About Healing” featuring authors Vincent Lam, Sylvia Warsh, Sarah Sheard and editor Patrick Crean as well as workshop leaders Anne Marie Todkill and Linda Clarke.

creativeandperformingarts.humber.ca/writers/writerscircle.html


Wednesday, November 15, 2006

9:30 – 11:30 am
Appearing “Live and In Person” in Orangeville.

calendardb.humber.ca/LIS/WebCalendar/CE/CourseOffering.do?name=ORWS_003


November 13 – December 1, 2006

CBC Radio One’s Between the Covers program (airing weekdays at 10:43 p.m.) presents a 15 part serialization of The Restoration of Emily.

www.cbc.ca/betweenthecovers/schedule


Saturday, November 11, 2006

10 am – 12 pm
Hosting the Humber Writers’ Circle session featuring author Joanna Goodman and literary agent Sarah Heller.

creativeandperformingarts.humber.ca/writers/writerscircle.html


Sunday, October 22, 2006

Private book club meeting in Toronto.


Saturday, October 14, 2006

10 am
Speaking on “Plotting” at the Humber Writers’ Circle, Humber Lakeshore Campus.

www.humber.ca/creativeandperformingarts


Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Private book club meeting in Toronto.


Sunday, September 24, 2006

12 pm: Reading at Kitchener Word on the Street Festival
5:30 pm: Reading in the Great Books tent at the Toronto Word on the Street Festival

www.thewordonthestreet.ca


Wed. September 13, 2006

7:30 pm
International Readings Celebrates the Humber School for Writers 15th Birthday.
Featuring Wayson Choy, Joe Kertes, Vincent Lam, Alistair MacLeod, Kim Moritsugu, Paul Quarrington, M.G. Vassanji, with keynote speech by Francine Prose Host: Antanas Sileika

www.readings.org/events.php


July 15-21, 2006


Kim Moritsugu accepts the Calliope Teaching Award at the 2006 Humber
Writers' Workshop.
(Photo by Luba Lesychyn)

Teaching at the Humber School for Writers Summer Workshop

creativeandperformingarts.humber.ca/writers/summerworkshop.html


Kim Moritsugu with the rest of the Humber School for Writers’ 2006 Summer Workshop Faculty:
Lisa Moore, Joseph Boyden, Kim Moritsugu, Paul Quarrington, D.M. Thomas, Bruce Jay Friedman,
Antanas Sileika, Wayson Choy, Francine Prose, Alistair MacLeod, Isabel Huggan, and David Bezmozgis.



Tues. June 27, 2006

Authors’ Night
Verity Women’s Club, Toronto


Fri. June 23, 2006

Private book club visit, Toronto


Sun. June 11, 2006

Book signing of The Restoration of Emily at Bookexpo Canada, in Toronto.

www.bookexpo.ca


Sun. May 28, 2006


Photo by Anne Koyama

Launch of The Restoration of Emily, along with the launch of Sylvia Warsh’s novel Season of Iron
David Mirvish Books

www.dmbooks.com


Sun. May 7, 2006

Private book club visit in Toronto for The Restoration of Emily.


Tues. April 25, 2006

7 – 8 pm
Book club discussion and visit for The Glenwood Treasure at the North York Central Library.
5120 Yonge Street, Toronto


Sat. April 22, 2006

12 – 2 pm
Reading and speaking at What If? magazine event with Sean Cullen
Square One Chapters store
Mississauga, Ontario

www.whatifmagazine.com/events.htm


Fri. April 14, 2006

10:45 pm
Between the Covers, CBC Radio One
Hear the debut reading of Kim Moritsugu's short story "Jennifer de Somewhere Else Good," commissioned by CBC Radio in connection with Canada Reads 2006.

www.cbc.ca/betweenthecovers/schedule/april.html


Sat. February 18, 2006

10 am - 12 pm
Hosting the Humber Writers' Circle meeting at the Humber Lakeshore Campus in Toronto, with guest speakers Kelley Aitken and Jack David.

www.humber.ca/creativeandperformingarts


Sat. January 14, 2006

10 am - 12 pm
Hosting the Humber Writers' Circle meeting at the Humber Lakeshore Campus in Toronto, with guest speakers Michel Basilieres and Barry Jowett.


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Past Appearances

Sat. November 19, 2005 - Hosting the Humber Writers' Circle meeting at the Humber Lakeshore Campus in Toronto, with guest speakers Eliza Clark and John Pearce.

Sat. October 15, 2005 - Hosting the Humber Writers' Circle meeting at the Humber Lakeshore Campus in Toronto, with guest speakers Catherine Gildiner and Marc Cote.

Sat. September 25, 2005 - Co-leading the free Heritage Toronto walking tour: Hidden Treasures in North Rosedale
www.heritagetoronto.org

Sat. September 17, 2005 - Hosting the Humber Writers' Circle meeting at the Humber Lakeshore Campus in Toronto, with guest speakers Giles Blunt and Margaret Hart.

July 30-31, 2005 - 29th Annual Powell Street Festival
Vancouver, B.C.
powellstfestival.shinnova.com

July 16-22, 2005 - Teaching at the Humber School for Writers Summer Workshop

Sat. June 18, 2005 - Launch of First Writes anthology at David Mirvish bookstore in Toronto
www.banffcentre.ca/press/publications/first_writes_2005.htm

Fri. May 13, 2005 - Private book club meeting.

Sat. April 9, 2005 - Onstage interview and reading at Words in Whitby Literary Festival
www.wordsinwhitby.ca

Sat. April 2, 2005 - Hosting the Humber Writers Circle meeting at the Humber Lakeshore Campus in Toronto, with guest speakers Camilla Gibb and Sam Hiyate.

Thu. March 3, 2005 - Private book club meeting.

Sat. February 12, 2005 - Hosting the Humber Writers Circle meeting at the Humber Lakeshore Campus in Toronto, with guest speakers Wayson Choy and Don Sedgwick.

Sat. January 15, 2005 - Hosting the Humber Writers Circle meeting at the Humber Lakeshore Campus in Toronto, with guest speakers Susan Swan and Jack David.

November 20, 2004 - Hosting the third meeting of the Humber Writers Circle at the Humber Lakeshore Campus in Toronto, with guest speakers Andrew Pyper and Marc Cote.

November 16, 2004 - Signing at the Royal St. George's College Get Caught Reading Night.

November 15, 2004 - Private book club meeting & attending The Writers' Trust of Canada Great Literary Dinner Party
www.writerstrust.com/events_great_ldp.html

October 27, 2004 - Reading from The Glenwood Treasure, with mystery author Maureen Jennings (Let Loose The Dogs) at the Metro Reference Library in Toronto.

October 18, 2004 - Private book club meeting.

October 16, 2004 - Hosting the second meeting of the Humber Writers Circle at the Humber Lakeshore Campus in Toronto, with guest speakers Erika Ritter and Cynthia Good.

October 7, 2004 - Appearing at Bouchercon, the Anthony Boucher Memorial World Mystery Convention, in Toronto, on a panel called Should Crime Writing Be Held to the Same Standards as Literary Fiction? with crime novelists Stephen Booth, Michael Collins, and Christopher Rice.


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