2024 UPDATE:

Frances took part in an online discussion of her 2020 novel THE COMPANY WE KEEP, sponsored by a HOSPICE group in Peterborough, Ontario.

In June, Frances was one of three final judges for the Short Fiction Award, sponsored by The Writers' Union of Canada.

September 30, 2024 - Frances will be interviewed online for a Japanese Canadian book club in Winnipeg. Her novel REQUIEM will be discussed.

October 7/24 - Frances will be guest speaker for CFUW, the Ottawa club, to talk about storytelling in her life and work, and how her lifelong interest in stories shapes and defines her next novel. The title of her talk: “OUR LIVES AS STORIES, THE STORIES OF OUR LIVES.”

Between October 16-20, 2024 - Frances will be appearing on stage in Wakefield, Quebec at one of her favourite literary festivals:  Wakefield Writers Festival ​des écrivains La Pêche. This year's festival will have the theme: "Finding Joy in Challenging Times" Check out the website for details as they become available.

VIDEO: Here's a short, 3-second video: Frances grew up in a small village in Quebec, beside the Ottawa River. This is the setting for many of her stories and for her book LEANING, LEANING OVER WATER.

RADIO: Frances Itani answers the Proust Questionnaire" for CBC's The Next Chapter. Click here to listen.

AWARD: Frances Itani won the 2021 Matt Cohen Award for Distinguished Body of Work over a lifetime of writing. To see her acceptance speech, check it out at approximately 09:00 (ie. minute nine).

BOOK CLUBS:

During the spring of 2024, Frances attended an Ottawa book-club discussion of her novel DEAFENING.

If your Book Club wishes to invite Frances to join an online discussion of her new book, The Company We Keep, please contact her directly or send a message to her publicist.

You can also connect with Frances via The Authors Book Club, by clicking here.

2022

PAST EVENTS

Frances was in Calgary in the fall 2022 (early November) to celebrate the launch of the 75th Anniversary edition of W.O. Mitchell’s Who Has Seen the Wind, the Kurelek edition, for which Frances wrote the Foreword. This edition was published by FreeHand Books.

Frances was a guest at the Banff Centre end of May, to address the Book Discussion Group, the longest-running conference (62 years) at the Banff Centre. Her book The Company We Keep was discussed, and Frances gave a talk about writing.

2020

The Company We Keep was published in August 2020, and sparked a series of readings and discussions across Canada.