Tuesday, June 23, 2026
It’s publishing day for Lost in France! Happiness.
Thursday, July 16, 2026, 6:30-8:30pm The Stirling Book Company
’ll be at the wonderful Stirling Book Company on July 16, 6:30-8:30pm, hosting, along with bookstore owner Tracey Starrett, an Evening in France. There will be French refreshments, a make-believe-you’re-in-France photo booth, a make-your-own French bookmark station, and an author chat and slide show where I will regale the audience with stories of the fun and unpredictable adventures Kirk and I went on to research Lost in France, during which he really, really hoped we weren’t about to buy a one-euro house that needed tons of reno work like Marlow does in the book. Kirk will be there too, hanging out, knitting, and rolling his eyes liberally. Please join us.
June 2, 2026 – Screening of documentary film Abroad: Patchwork Pride. Doors open at 6pm, screening at 7:30pm @ Tranzac Club, 292 Brunswick Avenue
Join us at a fundraiser for the 519 thrown by the wonderful Brenna MacCrimmon: an evening of craftivist inspiration with Kirk Dunn. There’s so much happening! Doors open at 6, bring your knit, crochet, embroidery, quilting, and mending and enjoy a beverage from the bar. You can also browse the stash sale table - 100% proceeds to The 519.
At 7:30pm, Kirk will give a short talk about The Patchwork Pride Project, a giant knitted Pride flag yarn bomb which he designed and which was community knitted. Then there will be a screening of a short documentary made by content creator Neville Madill about The Patchwork Pride Project’s voyage to London to be exhibited at Canada House
Tuesday, June 30, 2026 — Lost in France book launch 6-8pm @Noonan’s Pub, 141 Danforth Avenue, Toronto
The funny, smart, incomparable Nathan Whitlock is joining me to host the book launch for Lost in France. Fun fact: aside from being a great author himself, and coordinator for Humber College’s Creative Book Publishing Program, and hosting the fab author podcast What Happened Next where he puts out interviews with Canadian authors every Monday (you can see Nathan is a total slouch), Nathan is also the drummer in a very fun band called The Approximators. Check out their appearance schedule here.
So join us on Tues June 30, 6-8pm, at Noonan’s Pub, 141 Danforth, very close to Broadview TTC Station. Nathan will not be playing the drums at the book launch. He’ll be chatting with me and then raising a glass and eating French cheese with us all. Who doesn’t like French cheese?
Claire at the Stirling Book Company, Oct 19, 12-3pm
Featuring The Book Club’s October book selection, AT LAST COUNT
2024 Playwrights Guild of Canada Conference
Media Coverage on At Last Count, the debut novel from Claire Ross Dunn
A Globe and Mail Best Book, 2022
A Toronto Star Summer Reads Pick, 2022
A Zoomer Magazine CanLit Collection Pick, 2022
Click HERE to listen to Claire’s appearance on CBC Radio’s Ontario Morning.
Book Review of At Last Count by Emily Weedon
Read the Ramble at Emilyweedon.com.
Read the full interview in the Cardiff Review.
At Last Count Events
Friday July 21, 2023, 8:00 to 10:00 pm Book and Brew Authors’ readings and meet and greet at The Split Rail Brewing Co., Gore Bay, and Saturday July 22, 12:30 to 3:00 pm at the Billings Public Library, Writing Workshop “Mine Your Life for Art: Find Inspiring Moments in Personal Experience to Create Great Stories” with Claire Ross Dunn. See below for details:
Sunday May 14th, 2023, 6 to 8 PM at Queen Books, 914 Queen St E, Toronto. Registration Here.
Tuesday April 18th, 2023. To find out more about the Islington Reads Book Club through A Novel Spot Bookshop.
Click here to listen to Claire’s appearance on The County Writes… The County Reads
I’m really looking forward to being at the 2023 Ontario Library Association Super Conference this coming week to sign copies of At Last Count. It’s my first time!
Invisible Publishing has started selling At Last Count to school boards for high school readers. To have the book appeal to two kinds of readers—adults and teens—is very exciting. And to think the book could reach young people who may be struggling with OCD, through a librarian, is wonderful.
If you are going to the conference, I’ll be at Author Signing Table 1 at 2:40pm on Thursday Feb 2, 2023.
The OLA Super Conference takes place at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre – North Building, located at 255 Front Street W. as well as the InterContinental Toronto Centre at 225 Front Street W. in Toronto. Both of these buildings are connected by an internal walkway.
Sunday, July 10, 2022, 11:00 AM: Humber College School for Writers “Student Success Stories” Panel
As part of the Humber School for Writers’ 2022 Creative Writing Workshop scheduled to run from July 10-15, 2022 at The University of Toronto’s Victoria College, Claire will participate in an industry panel called “Student Success Stories” along with Katie Zdybel, author of Equipoise (Exile Editions) and Naomi Yano, author of Affairytales. The panel will be held on Sunday, July 10, 11:00 AM, at the University of Toronto’s Victoria College, 73 Queens Park, Toronto, ON M5S 1K7.
Link for event: Humber 2022 creative writing workshop
Saturday, July 13th, 2022, 7:00 to 10:00 PM: Join us for the Toronto book launch. We’ll be in the open air at The Edmund Burke Gastro Pub’s back patio (107 Danforth Avenue, right at Broadview) for a celebration and book signing. Support our local book supplier, Book City on the Danforth, who will be on hand selling books. Fun finger food on hand and cash bar. Look forward to seeing you there.
Saturday, July 16th, 2022, 11:00 AM: Reading, Q&A, and book signing with the author at The Hotel Wolfe Island. Door prizes: A signed copy of the book, and a book-themed pillow designed and knit by Kirk Dunn with Topsy Farms yarn. After the reading, there are wonderful places in the village to grab brunch, a beer, or a glass of wine. For more information, pictures, and author contacts, please contact event coordinator Margaret Webb (margaret@margaretwebb.com; 416-929-3099)
Sunday, July 17th, 2022, 1-3:00 PM: Books on Main in Bath is holding a reading and book signing. 368 Main Street Bath Unit 10, Bath, ON K0H 1G0. For more info: info@booksonmain.ca, or 613.881.0346
Tuesday, July 26th, 2022, 6-7:00 PM: book signing and book club discussion at River Bookshop, 67 Richmond St, Amherstburg, Ontario N9V 1G1.
Vancouver Writers Fest, Oct 17 to 23, 2022
Claire will be appearing at the Vancouver Writers Fest to talk about her debut novel, At Last Count, October 17 to 23, 2022
The Knitting Pilgrim Upcoming Tour Dates
Saturday, Apr 29, 2023 @ 7:30 pm: Eglinton St. George's United Church, 35 Lytton Blvd, Toronto, ON
June 21 to 25, times TBA: Theater Am Lend, Austria
Press for The Knitting Pilgrim:
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"I do not write these words lightly. The Knitting Pilgrim is the most beautiful show I've seen at the Ottawa Fringe. My life would be diminished if I hadn't seen it. It is a 15-year response to 9/11.”
Brian M. Carroll, @Apt613 review of The Knitting Pilgrim
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"6 out of 5 stars"
— Olivia Fava, CFMU Radio
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"A brilliant show that sticks with you, teaches you how to think, about faith, empathy resilience, and art... The end created a wonderful gasp and the tears begin to flow. This is a brilliant moving piece."
— Deb Kimmett, comedian
