Pack Animal is a Toronto-based experimental literary series interested in creating events for writers, artists, performers and readers to experience literature in vital and communal ways.

The series is created, curated, and hosted by Emma Cohen and Emily Wood, established summer of 2022.

You can read more about Pack Animal in the Toronto Star’s profile.

Thread Bare - July 24, 2024

Readings by Chelsea Rozansky, Anna Fitzpatrick, Beatriz Hausner, Claire Foster
Emma Cohen in conversation with Young Kim

Heart Throb - February 15, 2024

Readings by Claudia Dey, Babak Lakghomi, Josh Greenblatt, Farhia Tato, Cason Sharpe, Michelle Lemay

Night Philosophy - November 30, 2023

Readings by Emma Healey, Marlowe Granados, Ali Pinkney, Will Manning, Faith Paré & Trynne Delaney, Alastair Woods, Jean Marc Ah-Sen

In Heat - August 11, 2023

Readings by Cody Caetano, Amy Ching-Yan Lam, Angie Quick, Cassidy McFadzean, Meghan Harrison, Kalale Dalton-Lutale

Spring Fling - April 1, 2023

Readings by Tamara Faith Berger, Lee Suksi, Esmé Hogeveen, Tiana Reid, Zoe Imani Sharpe & Claire Freeman Fawcett, EJ Kneifel

Autumn Reading - November 17, 2022

Readings by Fan Wu, Kess Mohammadi, Sophie McCreesh, Claire Geddes Bailey, Claire Foster, Winnie Wang

Person, Person, Person - June 26, 2022

Readings by Akosua T. Adasi, Jessica Felicite, Sarah MacKenzie, Hannah Ziegler