May 23-25 2025

Joan Thomas will be presenting Wild Hope at the 64th annual Banff Book Discussion Weekend. To join this conversation about books in a beautiful mountain setting, go to banffbookdiscussionweekend.ca.

29 May 2024

The Crime Writers of Canada has awarded the Howard Engel Award for Best Crime Novel Set in Canada to Wild Hope.

1 May 2024 – The Crime Writers of Canada has nominated Wild Hope for the Howard Engel Award for Best Crime Novel set in Canada. Winners will be announced on May 29. View the shortlist here.

24 February 2024 – Joan Thomas will be facilitating a writers workshop at New Horizons, 1765 Sollans Road, Hornby, investigating how imagination and memory both feed into the stories we write, whether in memoir or fiction.  11:15 to 3 PM.

30 January 7 PM  Join Books Editor Ben Sigurdson and McNally Robinson’s Angela Torgerson for an on-line conversation with Joan Thomas about her new novel Wild Hope. Lots of time for readers’ questions. To register, go to Winnipeg Free Press Book Club. 

23 February 2024.  Joan Thomas will be reading and talking about Wild Hope at New Horizons, 1763 Sollans Road, Hornby, at 5 PM. Also featured, Anita Anand, author of A Convergence of Solitudes.

22 February 2024 – Joan Thomas will be a guest of the Fat Oyster Reading Series in Fanny Bay, BC, along with authors Dave Flawse (The Price We Pay for Love) and Anita Ananad (A Convergence of Solitudes)

7 PM at the Fanny Bay Hall, 7793 Island Hwy.

16 and 18 September. Joan Thomas in conversation with Ryan B Patrick about Wild Hope. This episode will air at 3 PM Saturday September 16 and 1 PM Monday September 18 on CBC Radio’s The Next Chapter.  It is available now on CBC Listen.