Interposition
Penguin Canada / McClelland and Stewart
Long poem, ed. Canisia Lubrin, March 2026
Interposition appropriates the language of the present. It draws from the news, from entertainment, advertising, war, tragedy, and popular culture. It finds morbid humour in our inability to distinguish between the urgencies of personal achievement and climate crisis. It compresses sound and rhythm into paradox, and it conflates absurdity and emergency. Begun in 2020, Interposition maps the continued encroachment of capital and virtual culture upon our psychic space. It examines how, with each click, we are reconstituted online and sold back to ourselves. Interposition asks: how do we uncouple ourselves from our avatars?
Interposition extends Kellough’s work into new themes, while continuing his exploration of the poem as a space in which linguistic convention, empire, and the impositions and internalized desires of power can be contested.
Équateur magnétique
triptyque
French translation of Magnetic Equator by Stéphane Martelly, April 2023
Winner, QWF Cole Foundation Prize for Translation, 2025
Entre l’Amérique du Sud et celle du Nord, les poèmes de ce livre dérivent. Ils cherchent une ancestralité à Georgetown, au Guyana, dans la forêt amazonienne et dans l’Atlantique. Ils retournent aux années 1980, en banlieue de Calgary et dans les quartiers montréalais emmurés dans la neige post-référendaire. Comme la traversée des vaisseaux noirs jusqu’à la terre ferme, ces poèmes se fraient un chemin dans ce monde et peinent à expliquer l’état d’une personne scindée en deux hémisphères. Présents dans un ici tout en portant les battements de l’ailleurs, les poèmes d’Équateur magnétique cartographient les distances parcourues.
Petits marronnages
Les éditions du Boréal
French translation of Dominoes at the Crossroads by Madeleine Stratford, February 2021
Finalist, Governor General’s Award, French Translation 2021
Finalist, Governor General’s Award, French Translation 2021
Dans Petits marronnages, Kaie Kellough s’engouffre dans les interstices de l’histoire officielle pour tirer de l’oubli les figures fictives ou bien réelles des diasporas caribéennes et africaines. Musiciennes et autostoppeurs, poètes et banlieusards sans histoire, agents secrets et historiennes, domestiques et révolutionnaires s’y croisent et s’y recroisent dans une improvisation débridée et foisonnante placée sous le signe du déracinement.
Dominoes at the Crossroads
Véhicule Press
Short stories, ed. Dimitri Nasrallah, published February 2020
Longlist, Scotiabank Giller Prize 2020
Longlist, CBC Canada Reads 2021
Winner, Quebec Writers Federation Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction 2020
Finalist, Grand Prix du Livre de Montréal 2020
Finalist, Danuta Gleed Award for Short Fiction, 2021
Finalist, ReLit Award for Short Fiction 2021
Cover story, Quill and Quire, December 2020
Globe and Mail, Globe 100 Best Books of 2020
CBC, Best Books of 2020
Longlist, Scotiabank Giller Prize 2020
Longlist, CBC Canada Reads 2021
Winner, Quebec Writers Federation Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction 2020
Finalist, Grand Prix du Livre de Montréal 2020
Finalist, Danuta Gleed Award for Short Fiction, 2021
Finalist, ReLit Award for Short Fiction 2021
Cover story, Quill and Quire, December 2020
Globe and Mail, Globe 100 Best Books of 2020
CBC, Best Books of 2020
Dominoes at the Crossroads plays double-dutch with time and latitude as its characters skip between their Caribbean roots and their Canadian present. Through the eyes of jazz musicians, hitchhikers, quiet suburbanites, student radicals, secret agents, historians, and their fugitive ancestors, Kellough guides us from the cobblestones of Montreal’s Old Port to the foliage of a South American rainforest, from a basement in wartime Paris to an underground antique shop in Montréal during the October Crisis, allowing the force of imagination to tip the balance of time like a line of dominoes.
Magnetic Equator
Penguin Canada / McClelland and Stewart
Poetry, ed. Dionne Brand 2019
Winner, Griffin Poetry Prize 2020
Finalist, Quebec Writers Federation A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry 2019
CBC, Best Books of 2019
Finalist, Carte Blanche 3Macs Award 2018
Winner, Griffin Poetry Prize 2020
Finalist, Quebec Writers Federation A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry 2019
CBC, Best Books of 2019
Finalist, Carte Blanche 3Macs Award 2018
The poems in MEQ are inhabited by migration and distance. They are ghosts that issue from suburban oblivion.They drift between North and South America looking for their ancestry in the cities and rainforests of Guyana, the Atlantic Ocean, and the prairies, foothills, and badlands of Western Canada.
Accordéon
ARP Books
Novel. Jacket and text by LOKI Design, published 2016
Finalist, Amazon / Walrus Foundation First Novel Award 2017
Cover story, Montréal Reivew of Books, Spring 2017
Finalist, Amazon / Walrus Foundation First Novel Award 2017
Cover story, Montréal Reivew of Books, Spring 2017
The Ministry of Culture seeks to shape and direct every detail of Québec society, and institutes a vast surveillance program. It plants agents in offices, cafés, and daycares. It abducts citizens, interrogates them, and meticulously catalogues their testimony. When Accordéon's itinerant narrator is detained, their testimony discloses a counter-conspiracy in which a mythic flying canoe will ascend to thwart the Ministry and radically transform Québec society.
Maple Leaf Rag
ARP Books
Poetry, published 2010
Shortlist, Manitoba Book Awards, Manuela Dias Design Prize, 2010
Shortlist, Manitoba Book Awards, Manuela Dias Design Prize, 2010
Navette
Shape & Nature Press
Short story and conceptual walk, published 2015, Greenfield, Mass.
Navette contains a conceptual walk and a work of short fiction. The walk visits familiar Montréal landmarks that double as passages along a migrant's journey. The story is one of revolution and flight in which a nameless youth, the child of Haitian immigrants, comes of age during the 2012 student strike. The Duvalier régime and the space shuttle Challenger haunt the family's memory, while a future blurred by social unrest, language politics, vintage Congolese recordings, and interstellar space engulfs their city.
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FYEAR
FYEAR is a Montréal-based nonet led by composer Jason Sharp and poet/writer Kaie Kellough. FYEAR fuses spoken word into multi-genre compositions for electronics, two voices, two drummers, processed saxophone, pedal steel guitar, and violins. Their debut self-titled studio recording was released by Constellation Records in 2024. It is available in all digital formats, 180-gram vinyl edition, and compact disc.
FYEAR incorporates drone, out-jazz, post-classical, ambient metal, avant-rock, and modular synthesis, and creates a unified sound/aesthetic while traversing adventurous and varied terrain. Kellough’s langauge engages with the challenges of modernity: extraction, inflation, and the unequal distribution of access to the future. This self-titled debut album is a supremely innovative 40-minute multi-movement work.
180 gram vinyl LP and compact disc designed by Kevin Yuen Kit Lo and Constellation.
Video design by Kevin Yuen Kit Lo & Sarah Auches
Schemmann Photography, Moers Festival, Germany, 05/2023
Contributors, L-R: Jesse Zubot, Kevin Yuen Kit Lo, Kaie Kellough, Jason Sharp, Joe Grass, Josh Zubot, Tawhida Tanya Evanson, Stefan Schneider, Tommy Crane
Jason Sharp is a bass and baritone saxophonist, synthesist, and composer who has recorded 3 studio albums for the prestigious Constellation Records label.
Kaie Kellough (text, voice) is a poet, novelist, and sound performer. A recipient of the Griffin Poetry Prize, Kaie’s writing emerges where social engagement and formal innovation meet.
Joe Grass (pedal steel) is a guitarist, composer, and producer who has worked extensively with Lhasa, Patrick Watson, Marie-Pierre Arthur, and Elisapie.
Kevin Yuen Kit Lo is a graphic designer. He is the founder and creative director of LOKI Design Studios, which blends a passion for craft with a commitment to equality and social justice.
Tawhida Tanya Evanson (voice) is a poet, novelist, sound performer, and whirling dervish. Her publications, solo perfromances, and collaborations have reached Africa, Australia, Indonesia, and the Caribbean.
Jesse Zubot (violin) is a composer, musician, and producer who is a four-time Juno Award winner. As a film composer, he has won acclaim for his innovative scores for Monkey Beach, Indian Horse, and Academy Award-nominated Two Lovers and a Bear.
Joshua Zubot (violin) is a central figure in both the Montréal and Vancouver creative music scenes. Some of his frequent collaborations are with Bernard Falaise, Francois Houle, Sam Shalabi, Nicolas Caloia, and Isaiah Ceccarelli.
Stefan Schneider (percussion) is a founding member of the Bell Orchestre and The Queer Songbook Orchestra.
Tommy Crane (percussion) is a Montréal-based musician who has recorded and performed with Ambrose Akinmusire, Melissa Aldana, The Mingus Big Band, Linda Oh, Thus Owls, Aaron Parks, Richard Reed Parry, and Logan Richardson.
Kaie Kellough (text, voice) is a poet, novelist, and sound performer. A recipient of the Griffin Poetry Prize, Kaie’s writing emerges where social engagement and formal innovation meet.
Joe Grass (pedal steel) is a guitarist, composer, and producer who has worked extensively with Lhasa, Patrick Watson, Marie-Pierre Arthur, and Elisapie.
Kevin Yuen Kit Lo is a graphic designer. He is the founder and creative director of LOKI Design Studios, which blends a passion for craft with a commitment to equality and social justice.
Tawhida Tanya Evanson (voice) is a poet, novelist, sound performer, and whirling dervish. Her publications, solo perfromances, and collaborations have reached Africa, Australia, Indonesia, and the Caribbean.
Jesse Zubot (violin) is a composer, musician, and producer who is a four-time Juno Award winner. As a film composer, he has won acclaim for his innovative scores for Monkey Beach, Indian Horse, and Academy Award-nominated Two Lovers and a Bear.
Joshua Zubot (violin) is a central figure in both the Montréal and Vancouver creative music scenes. Some of his frequent collaborations are with Bernard Falaise, Francois Houle, Sam Shalabi, Nicolas Caloia, and Isaiah Ceccarelli.
Stefan Schneider (percussion) is a founding member of the Bell Orchestre and The Queer Songbook Orchestra.
Tommy Crane (percussion) is a Montréal-based musician who has recorded and performed with Ambrose Akinmusire, Melissa Aldana, The Mingus Big Band, Linda Oh, Thus Owls, Aaron Parks, Richard Reed Parry, and Logan Richardson.
Small Stones
05/2021
Small Stones is a 21-minute work that blends audio, graphic design, animation, and text. It was commissioned by Jason Camlot at Spokenweb for the Listening, Sound, Agency Symposium.
Text and voice: Kaie Kellough, Bass and baritone saxophones: Jason Sharp, Visual and typographic design: Kevin Yuen Kit Lo, Editing and animation: Sarah Auches.
FYEAR
04/2021
FYEAR is a 9-piece ensemble. This performance was recorded live at the Lion D’Or venue in Montréal. It was commissioned by JazzAhead! Bremen, the National Arts Center, and the Canada Council for the Arts, and it aired on April 29 with partnering jazz festivals in Canada and Europe.
Contributors are Jason Sharp (compositions, electronics, bass and baritone saxophones), Kaie Kellough (text, voice), Tawhida Tanya Evanson (voice), Joe Grass (pedal steel), Stefan Schneider (drums), JahSun (drums), Jesse Zubot (Violin), Josh Zubot (violin), and Kevin Yuen Kit Lo (type and visual design).
www.fyear.ca
UBGNLSWRE
09/2020
UBGNLSWRE is a mixed media collaboration between Jason Sharp (bass saxophone, electronics, composition), Kaie Kellough (voice, text), and Kevin Yuen Kit Lo (visual design).
Interview: 00:00-15:35
w/ Jason Sharp and Kaie Kellough, by David Dacks
Performance: 15:38-46:45
This work was composed during the 2020 pandemic. It emerges from a moment when climate change, global uncertainty, and sharply rising inequality appeared to suspend the future. It examines that suspension and it considers how we construct our sense of self in such a moment. It explores questions of (historical) access to the idea of a future, and what happens to a self when that access is limited.
UBGNLSWRE was presented in collaboration with the Aga Khan Museum, with the X AVANT Festival, and with the Music Gallery Toronto.
Rocket #
09/2020
Rocket # is a series of 00:45-second improvised conversations between voice (poem) and brass.
Text is drawn from the book Magnetic Equator, winner of the 2020 Griffin Poetry Prize.
Kaie Kellough (voice, text)
Jason Sharp (baritone saxophone)
Produced in collaboration with the Aga Khan Museum, Toronto.
Fire in the Mainframe
09/2019
Fire in the Mainframe is a lecture with an electronic narrative embedded in the middle. It features live voice, recorded voice, and modular syntehsizer, and was composed and presented by Kaie Kellough.
This performative lecture was delivered at the Power Plant, Toronto, in October 2019.
The lecture begins and ends with an essay on the 1969 student occupation of the Sir George Williams Computer Center, a protest against racial bias in grading.
The lecture was published in TOPIA Journal, Special Issue, Legacies of the 1969 Sir George Williams Student Protests, ed. Ronald Cummings, Nalini Mohabir, Vol. 44
The narrative embedded in the lecture is a work of short fiction that was published as “Ashes and Juju” in the collection Dominoes at the Crossroads.
Turning Centre of the Still World
06/2018
Turning Centre of the Still World is a cross-disciplinary work, composed with Cheryl Duvall (prepared piano), Ilana Waniuk (violin, effects), Jason Sharp (electronics, sound design), and Kaie Kellough (voice, vocal effects, text).
This work draws on ideas of diaspora, displacement, erasure, ambivalence, and on personal history. It looks at place (the Canadian prairies) from the perspective of one who is physically present there, yet who is culturally absent or erased.
This work was performed live at the Music Gallery, Toronto, in 06/2018, as part of the Thin Edge New Music Collective’s event, Fusing.
01100001
09/2014
01100001 is a mixed media collaboration between Jason Sharp (electronics, sound design), and Kaie Kellough (live and synthesized voice, text, visual design). Video shot/edited by Victoria Nam, 05/09/2014, Montréal.
This performance of the book of Genesis converted into binary code, is inspired by the quote: “Too much has been made of origins, all origins are arbitrary” by Dionne Brand, from A Map to the Door of No Return .
Excerpt from a performance at the launch of Creole Continuum.
Produced in collaboration with HOWL! Arts Collective.
Funded by the Canada Council for the Arts
Creole Continuum
Howl!Design: Nazik Dakkach
Creole Continuum was released on vinyl, CD and MP3 on September 5th, 2014 with Howl! records.
Personnel: Martin Heslop (contrebasse), Jason Sharp (bass & baritone saxophones), Ted Strauss (piano, organ), Brahja Waldman (drums, alto saxophone), Kim Zombik (voice), Tyler Fitzmaurice (recording, mixing), Dimitiri Condax (mastering).
From Creole Continuum, “d-o-y-o-u-r-e-a-d-m-e” was selected for BAX Online (Best American Experimental Writing) 2015, eds. Douglas Kearney, Seth Abramson, Jesse Damiani, and was named among the top poems of 2014 by the Vancouver Poetry House.
Vox:Versus
Wired On WordsVox:Versus
Design: Kevin Yuen Kit Lo (LOKI)
Vox:Versus was recorded in 2010 at Hotel 2 Tango, Montréal.
Personnel: Martin Heslop (contrebasse), Jahsun (drums), Stefan Christoff (piano), Kim Zombik (vocal), DJ Andy Williams (soundscapes), Zeke (sound collage), Jason Selman (trumpet), Radwan Ghazi Mounmeh (recording), Graham Lessard (mixing), Harris Newman (mastering).
Vox:Versus was launched at th 2011 Suoni Per Il Popolo festival, Montréal.
Upcoming
2026
September-December, Toronto
September 28th, Toronto
York University
November, Halifax
Achieved
2026
March, Victoria
Orion Arts Lecture, University of Victoria
March, Toronto
McCelland and Stewat Poetry Night, book launches with Laurie D. Graham, Jake Skeets
May, Ottawa
Ottawa International Writers Festival, with Jordan Abel
May, Kingston
Dual book launch, Interposition alongside Qaf’s People by Sadiqa De Meijer
June, Montreal
Festival de la Poésie de Montréal
2025
November, Miami, Naples, FL
Dark Ride with Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
October, Utrecht
FYEAR plays Le Guess Who Festival
2024
June 6, Toronto
First novel award ceremony, juror w/ Francesca Ekwuyasi, Billy Ray Belcourt
May 9, Sudbury
Duo w/ Oana Avasilichoaei, Productions Rhizome
May 7, Toronto
Duo w/ Oana Avasilichoaei, Productions Rhizome
April 30, Montreal
Montreal International Poetry Prize Reading Series w/ Bianca Stone, Sadiqa de Meijer, Jeremy Desjarlais
March 7-16, Montréal
Infinitheater Presents: Dominoes at the Crossroads, a play based on the collection of short stories
February 15-25: Rhizome, Québec City
In residence with Oana Avasilichioaei
February 5: Toronto
Launch of Code Noir with Canisia Lubrin
2023
April 21: Librairie Port de Tête, Montréal
Lancement d’Équateur magnétique, traduite par Stéphane Martelly
May 11th-15th: Stockholm, Sweden
Hägerstensåsens medborgarhus Festival, with Michael Nardone, Jordan Abel, Cecily Nicholson, Gail Scott. Lisa Robertson
May 25th: Moers Festival, Moers, Germany
FYEAR performance, with Jason Sharp (composition, bass saxophone, electronics), Kevin Yuen Kit Lo (visual projections), Tawhida Tanya Evanson (voice), Joe Grass (pedal steel, electronics), Stefan Schneider (drums), Tommy Crane (drums), Josh Zubot (violin), Jesse Zubot (violin)
Feberuary 27th: Casa del Popolo, Montréal
Trio with Jason Sharp (saxophones, electronics) & Liam O’Neill (drums)
February 14th: Queens University, Kingston, ON
Course guest, lauch of A is for Acholi with Juliane Okot Bitek
February 7th: Virtual
Giller Book Club interview with Rawi Hage
January 25th: Musée des Beaux Arts, Montréal
Reading as part of the Jean-Michel Basquiat exhibit
With David Bradfort, Tawhida Tanya Evanson, Jason Sharp, Mo Bolduc
2022
November 28-Dec 01: Guadalajara, Mexico
Guadalajara Feria Internacional del Libro
w/ Oana Avasilichioaei & Productions Rhizome
November 25: Montréal
Poésie et musique improvisée
November 23: Concordia University
Montreal writing in English, Course guest
November 22: McGill University
Introduction to the Philosophy of Race, Course guest
November 20: Montréal
The Fire That Time, book launch
November 15: Université de Montréal
Département des littératures et langues du monde, présentation littéraire
November 10: McGill University
Genetic Cascade
Presented by the Department of English and the Montréal Poetry Prize
June 14: La Sala Rossa, Montréal
Suoni Per Il Popolo Festival, FYEAR performance, with Jason Sharp (composition, bass saxophone, electronics), Kevin Yuen Kit Lo (visual projections), Tawhida Tanya Evanson (voice), Joe Grass (pedal steel, electronics), Stefan Schneider (drums), Jahsun (drums), Josh Zubot (violin), Jesse Zubot (violin)
June 10: URSA, Montréal
June 01: Montréal
Festival de la Poésie de Montréal
May 27: Montréal
ACCUTE Conference Keynote, with Eric Schmaltz (visual projections)
April 29-May 01: New Brunswick
FRYE Festival
March 15: Guelph University, College of Arts
Black Writers and Thinkers series, with Tessa McWatt, David Austin, Lawrence Hill, Ronald Cummings, Nalini Mohabir, and Canisia Lubrin, curated and hosted by Paul Barrett
Jan-Aug: Writers’ Trust of Canada
Mentor, poetry, with Sho Yamagushiku
Jan-Oct: Scotiabank Giller Prize
Juror
2021
December 01, 2021: Concordia University
Writers Read, w Oana Avasilichioaei, Caroline Bergvall
November 03: York University
A Map to the Door of No Return at 20: A Gathering, Fields of Imagining, w Natalie Diaz, Torkwase Dyson, Canisia Lubrin, Nanjala Nyabola, Brandon Shimoda
October: TIFA, Toronto
Masterclass
September: Canadian Literature Centre, University of Alberta, Edmonton
Guest presentation, Q&A
September 16: Word Vancouver Festival
With Tawhida Tanya Evanson and Cecily Nicholson
September: Send & Recieve Festival, Winnipeg
August: Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity
Faculty, Online Literary Program, w Jordan Abel
May 24: Giller Book Club
In coversation with David Chariandy
May 22: Concordia University
SpokenWeb Symposium, premiere of Small Stones, an audio-video work in collaboration w Kevin Yuen Kit Lo (visual design), Jason Sharp (bass and baritone saxophones), Kaie Kellough (text, voice)
April 29: Jazzahead! Festival, Bremen
FYEAR, a 7-piece ensemble audio-visual work, w Jason Sharp (composition, modular electronics, bass saxophone), Kaie Kellough (text, voice), Tawhida Tanya Evanson (voice), Joe Grass (pedal steel), JahSun (drums), Stefan Schneider (drums), Kevin Yuen Kit Lo (visual design, projections) in collaboration with the Canada Council for the Arts, Jazzahead! Bremen, and the National Arts Center
April 25: Bocas Literary Festival, Trinidad
In a Cold Country, conversation with André Alexis and Anton Nimblett
April 24: Stanstead Arts Center, Montréal
Reading and conversation with Oana Avasilichioaei and Shelley Pomerance
April 21: Memorial University, Newfoundland
Doing Representation Justice, conversation with Zalika Reid-Benta and Dr. Stephanie McKenzie
April 9th: Québec City (Virtual)
Imgination Festival
April 6th: Queen’s University
On Translation, discussion w Madeleine Stratford
April 1st: Concordia University
FARR (Fine Arts Reading Room), discussion, Q&A
March 16th: Queen’s University
Language, Liberation, and Design, discussion w Kevin Yuen Kit Lo, Dani Spinosa
March 10th: Queens’s University
Music Department, Extended Technique, discussion w Jason Sharp, Matt Rogalsky
March 5th: Queen’s University
2021 Scotiabank Giller Prize Annual Event, discussion w Souvankham Thammavongsa
February 26th: Queen’s University
The Politics of Multidisciplinarity, discussion w Gary Barwin, Tawhida Tanya Evanson, Kama La Mackerel
February 23rd: Toronto (Virtual)
York University, Canadian Writers in Person Lecture Series
February 18th
Véhicule Press, launch of The Book of Wings, a novel by Tawhida Tanya Evanson, author interview
February 12: CBC Gem
Jah in the Ever-Expanding Song, a monodrama presented by Obsidian Theatre, as part of the 21 Black Futures project
February 9th: Toronto (Virtual)
Toronto Public Library, The Black Prairie Archives, discussion with Dr. Karina Vernon and Ismaila Alfa (CBC)
January 20, CBC Ideas
Everything at Once, interviewed as part of an episode on time during the pandemic
January 19: Queen’s University
Maroon Time: Time and Ancestry in the Poem, Queen’s University WiR Opening Address
2021 Winter Semester: Kingston, ON (Virtual)
Queen’s University, Writer in Residence
2020
November 27th: Montréal (Virtual)
QWF / AELAQ Black Writers Out Loud, in conversation w Canisia Lubrin, curated by Tanya Evanson
November 25th: Oakville, ON (Virtual)
Sheridan College, Masterclass and public discussion w Gary Barwin
November 19th: Montréal
John Abbott College, course guest w Dr. Sara Villa
November 18th: Montréal
Concordia University, Contemporary Canadian Fiction, course guest w Dr. Jessica Bardill
November 7th: Ottawa (Virtual)
Ottawa Versefest, Official Welcome w Karen Solie, Anne-Marie Desmeules, Albert Dumont
November 6th: Sudbury (Virtual)
Wordstock Sudbury, Our Belonging, panel w Chelene Knight, Jonina Kirton, Kim Fahner
October 29th: Toronto
Toronto International Festival of Authors (TIFA), Far From Home, in conversation w Souvankham Thammavongsa
October 15th: Toronto (Virtual)
Aga Khan Museum / Music Gallery / Avant X Festival co-present UBGNLSWRE, live performance w/ Jason Sharp (bass / baritone saxophones, electronics), Kevin Yuen Kit Lo (visual projections)
October 8th: Montréal
Suoni TV, live performance w/ Jason Sharp (bass / baritone saxophones, electronics), and JahSun (drums)
October 7th: Toronto (Virtual)
Coach House Books, Watch Your Head anthology launch
October 7th: Toronto (Virtual)
Toronto International Festival of Authors (TIFA) Book Club
October 2nd: Toronto (Virtual)
The Art of the Short Story,conversation among Giller prize nominees, w Souvankham Thammavongsa and David Bergen
September 28th, 29th: Toronto
Aga Khan Museum, audio / video recording date w/ Jason Sharp (bass saxophone, electronics), and Kevin Yuen Kit Lo (visual projections)
September 23/24th: Montréal
Rhizome Productions, live recording at the Lion D’or w Oana Avasilichioaei
September 21st: Ottawa (Virtual)
OIWF - Ottawa Internatioal Writers Festival w Ian Williams and CBC host Adrian Harewood
September 11th: Vancouer (Virtual)
Word Vancouver - Host, w Souvankham Thammavongsa, Derek Mascarenhas, Nilofar Shidmehr
September 10th: Toronto (Virtual)
WOTS - Word on the Street, At the Crossroads, conversation w Jack Wang
August 10th-22nd: Banff Cancelled due to COVID
Banff Centre for the Arts, Poetry Program Faculty, w/ Jordan Abel
June 5th-11th: Berlin Cancelled due to COVID
Festival Poesie Berlin, w/ Oana Avasilichioaei, Rhizome Productions
May 1st-10th: Hong Kong Cancelled due to COVID
Contemporary Musiking Hong Kong, Sound Forms Festival w/ Kevin Yuen Kit Lo
April 30th: Ottawa Cancelled due to COVID
Ottawa Writers Festival
April 18th: Toronto Cancelled due to COVID
Aga Khan Museum, duo performance w/ Jason Sharp
April 7th-9th: Québec City Cancelled due to COVID
Rhizome Productions
March 28th: Ottawa Cancelled due to COVID
Ottawa VerseFest
March 26th: Montréal Cancelled due to COVID
MRB (Montréal Review of Books) Spring Launch @ D&Q
March 13th: Montréal Cancelled due to COVID
Concordia University, Black Studies Conference, Opening Launch
March 3rd: Montréal
Concordia University, course guest w/ Dimitri Nasrallah
February 27th: Québec
Open Book Diaspora Panel, Centre Morin, w/ Rebecca Fisseha
February 19th: Montréal
Drawn & Quarterly Bookstore: Launch of Dominoes at the Crossroads, with Dimitri Nasrallah, Véhicule Press
January 17th: Vancouver
UBC, Black Noise. Course guest w/ Phanuel Antwi
January 15th: Vancouver
UBC, Thinking While Black. Claudia Rankine, moderated by Kaie Kellough
Presented by The Phil Lind Initiative
2019
November 27th: Montréal
Rhizome, recording
November 21st: Montréal
Duo w/ Jason Sharp, Casa del Popolo
November 15th: Kingston
Queens University
November 7th: Montréal
Concordia University, Deep Curation
November 5th: Montréal
QWF Awards: Shortlisted for the A.M. Klein Poetry Award
October 23rd-25th: Vancouver
Vancouver International Writers Festival
October 22nd: Montréal
Paragraphe Bookstore: QWF Awards Readings
October 19th: Toronto
Harborfront Center, hosted by the Power Plant
October 11th: Montréal
Death of Futurism
October 10th: Montréal
Concordia University, Wired on Words
September 24th-25th: Winnipeg
Winnipeg International Writers Festival
September 20th: St. Catharines
Sonic Glow Festival
September 9th: Montréal
LOGOS Reading Series
June 13th: Montréal
Suoni Per Il Popolo
Sextet w/ Jason Sharp (modular synth, bass saxophone), Kevin Yuen Kit Lo (visual language projections), Joe Grass (pedal steel), Tanya Evanson (voice), Stef Schneider (drums)
May 24th: Montréal
Publishing Sphere Conference
Reading with Erin Moure, Nicole Raziya Fong
May 4th: Montréal
Words and Music, Blue Metropolis Festival
May 3rd: Montréal
The Equivocal City author panel, Blue Metropolis Festival
April 25-27th: Dublin
Making In Canadian Space conference
April 12th: Montréal
Sounding the City, Concordia University
In collaboration with Dr. Katherine McLeod, Writers Read, Spokenweb
March 27th: Toronto
Launch of Magnetic Equator (Poetry, McClelland and Stewart), AGO
February 8th, 9th: Montréal
Protests and Pedagogy Conference, Concordia University
2018
November 25th: Montréal
Mile End Poets’ Festival
November 20th: Montréal
QWF Awards. Poem Bow nominated for the 3Macs Carte Blanche Award
November 14th: Montréal
Concordia University, Montréal / Québec Literature w/ Katherine Mcleod
October 7-15: Australia
Bundanon Trust Artist Residency
October 19-21: Sydney, Australia
Word Travels Storyfest
June 22: Toronto
Thin Edge New Music Collective: Fusing
New composition by Cheryl Duvall, Kaie Kellough, Jason Sharp, Ilana Waniuk
June 9th: Montréal
My Backyard, Somewhere / Quelque part, mon jardin
Music by Collectif 9 & Architek Percussion, works by 5 composers, incl. bilingual text by Kaie Kellough
May 2nd: Montréal
Monastiraki Gallery. Launch of Hider Seeker by Jen Currin, with Nicole Raziya Fong, Helen Guri, Emilie O'brien
April 7th: Montréal
SBC Gallery. Electronic narrative presentation, as part of Relief Theory
March 29th: Montréal
Canadian Literature, w/ Robert Lecker, McGill Univeristy
March 16th: Montréal
Québec / Montréal Writing in English, w/ Gillian Sze, Concordia University
January 25th: Montréal
Contemporary Poetry, w/ Michael Nardone, Concordia University
2017
November 9th: Montréal
Vanier College Literary Symposium
November 4th: St.Catharines, Ontario
Festival of Readers
October 13th: Toronto
XAvant XII Festival: Intérro, collaborative work w/ Jason Sharp, Kevin Yuen Kit Lo, Tanya Evanson, The Music Gallery
Septermber 15th: Montréal
Underground Sounds. Phonopolis. Modular synth improv set
July 26th: Toronto
Course Guest: Mixed Race and Other Border Crossings, University of Toronto,
w/ Karina Vernon
July 12th: Montréal
Mixed with Dust (duo w/ Stefan Christoff), Casa del Popolo
June 24th: Montréal
Duo w/ Jason Sharp. Casa Del Popolo
June 14th: Montréal
Suoni Per Il Popolo Festival, at La Vitrola w/ Lillian Allen, Tanya Evanson
May 25th: Toronto
Shortlisted: Amazon.ca / Walrus Foundation First Novel Award gala at the Four Seasons
April 29th: Montréal
Blue Metropolis Festival at Hotel Dix. Round table: Performing Words, Performing Signs
April 22nd: Montréal
Howl! Festival at Casa Del Popolo w/ Sam Shalabi, Stefan Christoff, Mark Haynes
April 19th: Vancouver
Wax Poetic program at Co-op Radio 100.5 fm w/ RC Weslowski
April 12th: Victoria
Tongues of Fire series w/ Bill Bissett
April 7th: Montréal
Montréal Monochrome V at Articule Gallery
April 4th: Montréal
Mile End Poets Festival w Tanya Evanson, Victoria Stanton, Skin T0ne
March 13th: Montréal
Kola Reading Series w Joel Desrosiers, Olive Senior
February 17th: Montréal
Black Future w Elena Stoodley & Kaitlyn Ramsden, DJ Ellise Barbara, Slowpitchsound & Lybido
January 31st: Montréal
Poetry, Engl 234 course guest, w/ Michael Nardone @ Concordia University
January 27th: Montréal
Accordéon novel launch @ Casa Del Popolo
2016
December 15th: Montréal
God is Alive, Magic is Afoot: Leonard Cohen Tribute @ Rialto
Novermber 26th: Montréal
QWF Book Fair @ Atwater Library
November 23rd: Toronto
ARP Books Authors' Showcase @ The Gladstone
w/ Hal Niedzviecki, Andrew Sullivan, Emma Healey, Angela Hibbs
November 20th: Montréal
Wired on Words @ Casa Del Popolo
w/ Tanya Evanson, Paul Dutton
November 3rd: Montréal
La Plante: duo performance w/ Jason Sharp
October 22nd: Montréal
CBC 5 à 6 interview w/ Nantali Indongo
August 17th, 18th: Edinburgh, Scotland
Edinburgh Int'l Book Festival: Gloss
Performance & panel w/ Tanya Evanson & Pamela Witcher
July 14th: Montréal
Argo Books: Africa as a Dream that Travels Through my Heart
duo performance with Jason Selman
June 2nd: Montréal
Suoni Per Il Popolo Festival, Intérro: Performance w/ Jason Sharp, Tanya Evanson, Kevin Yuen Kit Lo
May 26th: Halifax
Obey Convention, Solo Performance
May 7th: Toronto
Pages Unbound Festival, duo performance w/ Jason Sharp. solo performance by Aisha Sasha John
April 16th: Montréal
Blue Metropolis Festival, Rapid-Fire Reading / Ricochet Writing Series
April 8th: Québec
Les Vendredis de Poésie
March 25th: Montréal
Howl! Arts event, duo w/ Stefan Christoff (Mixed with Dust)
March 9th: Montréal
Performance, festival Dans ta Tête
March 1st: Montréal
Résonance Reading Series, with Oana Avasilichioaei, Jeramy Dodds, Lisa Fishman, Virginia Konchan, Andrew Zawacki
January 25th: Montréal
Jessica Moss, + trio w/ Jason Sharp, Kaie Kellough, Stefan Schneider
January 22nd: Montréal
Howl! présente: Sarah Pagé, Rêves Sonores, Markus Floats
January 9th: Montréal
Howl! Benefit duo w/ Stefan Christoff (Mixed with Dust),
2015
November 25th: Montréal
Atwater Poetry Project w/ Oana Avasilichioaei
November 8th: Kingston (Ontario)
Tone Deaf Festival w/ Skin Tone & Nobuo Kubota
October 22nd, 23rd: St Catharines (Ontario)
Harriet's Legacies Conference: Race, Historical Memory, and Futures in Canada, Brock University
October 9th: Montréal
Opening for Algiers, presented by Blue Skies Turn Black
duo w/ Stefan Christoff
September 27th: Montréal
Wired on Words and Music Performance Series
September 25th: St Catharines (Ontario)
Visual poetry vernissage: The Assembly Line of Babel
w/ Eric Schmaltz, Manticore
September 17th: St. Catharines (Ontario)
Border Blur Reading Series
w/ Jacqueline Valencia, Natalee Caple, Andrew Mcewan
September 12th: Montréal
Shape & Nature Press launch of Navette (chapbook)
w/ Julie Mannell
September 5th: Toronto
CPRG (Contemporary Poetry Research Group) microtalk series "Play" w/ John Liberty, Lillian Allen, Jenny Sampirisi, David James Brock, John Bell, Liz Howard
June 6th: Ottawa
ab Series w/ Wayde Compton
May 27th: Montréal
Between the Pages, literary TV program (taping for broadcast)
April 30th: Montréal
QWF presents: Ricochet Readings, Atwater Library
April 1st: Montréal
Résonance Reading Series
March 28th: Montréal
Mile End Poets Festival
February 9th: Montréal
Concordia University, Digital Texts and Typography course, guest
2014
November 4th: Montréal
CKUT 90.3 fm, Interview
October 24th, 25th: Barcelona
Barcelona International Spoken Word Festival
October 15th: Victoria
Canadian Festival of Spoken Word
October 1st: Montréal
Résonance Reading Series, Café Résonance
September 5th: Montréal
Creole Continuum, Kaie Kellough record launch w/ Jason Sharp
June 14th: Toronto
OISE & House Reading w/ Bronwyn Haslam, Laura Broadbent, Michael Nardone, Steve Giasson, Mat Laporte
May 29th: Montréal
Hyena Subpoena, Catherine Kidd book/cd launch
May 9th: Toronto
ACROSS Reading Series, w/ Gary Barwin, Margaret Christakos, Hoa Nguyen, Beatriz Hausner
May 8th: Toronto
Thin Edge New Music Collective: Onomatopoeia, w/ Jason Sharp
April 26th: Montréal
Howl! Arts festival, panel on art and gentrification
April 2nd, 3rd: Calgary
Calgary International Spoken Word Festival
March 30th: Ottawa
Ottawa Versefest
March 22nd: Montréal
Friends of Freedom, Café Résonance
March 1st: Winnipeg
Cluster Festival w/ Jason Sharp
Bio
Kaie Kellough is a novelist, poet, and sound performer. His work emerges at a crossroads of social engagement and formal experiment. From western Canada, he lives in Montréal and has roots in Guyana, South America.
His books include Interposition (poetry, McClelland & Stewart, 2026), Dominoes at the Crossroads (short fiction, Véhicule 2020), Magnetic Equator (poetry, McClelland & Stewart 2019), and Accordéon (novel, ARP 2016) .
Kaie’s writing has been awarded the Griffin Poetry Prize and the QWF Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction.
Since 2011 he has created mixed media compositions with saxophonist and synthesist Jason Sharp. They are core collaborators in FYEAR, a 9-piece ensemble whose debut was released by Constellation Records in 2024.
Kaie is a doctoral student at Queen’s University. He is the recipient of a CGSM-SSHRC fellowship and the Robert Sutherland fellowship. He researches sound in Caribbean diasporic literature and performance.
Kaie continues to craft new passages.
︎ ︎kaieouy@gmail.com
His books include Interposition (poetry, McClelland & Stewart, 2026), Dominoes at the Crossroads (short fiction, Véhicule 2020), Magnetic Equator (poetry, McClelland & Stewart 2019), and Accordéon (novel, ARP 2016) .
Kaie’s writing has been awarded the Griffin Poetry Prize and the QWF Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction.
Since 2011 he has created mixed media compositions with saxophonist and synthesist Jason Sharp. They are core collaborators in FYEAR, a 9-piece ensemble whose debut was released by Constellation Records in 2024.
Kaie is a doctoral student at Queen’s University. He is the recipient of a CGSM-SSHRC fellowship and the Robert Sutherland fellowship. He researches sound in Caribbean diasporic literature and performance.
Kaie continues to craft new passages.
︎ ︎kaieouy@gmail.com