Vinh Nguyen Reads 6 February!

We're proud to present Vinh Nguyen for our first event of the Winter term! 

Please join us on Friday 6 February at 4:30pm in SJ2 1002. 

The reading is free and all are welcome! Please spread the word!

Photo credit: Nam Phi Dang 

Vinh Nguyen is a writer and educator based at Renison University College. He is the author of the speculative memoir The Migrant Rain Falls in Reverse, a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Nonfiction, the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Nonfiction Prize, and the Toronto Book Award. His academic monograph Lived Refuge: Gratitude, Resentment, Resilience won Outstanding Achievement in Literary Studies from the Association for Asian American Studies and the American Studies Association’s Shelly Fisher Fishkin Prize for International Scholarship in Transnational American Studies. He is working on a novel.

Karen Smythe and Kasia Jaronczyk read 7 November!

We have a double-header reading coming up in November as we welcome Karen Smythe and Kasia Jaronczyk, two writers coming to us from Guelph. 

Please join us on Friday 7 November at 4:30pm in SJ2 1002. 

The reading is free and all are welcome, so please spread the word!

Karen Smythe is the author of the novel This Side of Sad (from Goose Lane Editions, 2017), the story collection Stubborn Bones (from Raincoast, 2001), and the critical study Figuring Grief: Gallant, Munro, and the Poetics of Elegy (from McGill-Queen’s U.P., 1992). Her scholarship was published widely in academic journals, and several of her short stories appeared in Canadian literary journals such as The Fiddlehead, Grain, and The Antigonish Review.  Karen’s professional career took her across Canada in various roles including Assistant Professor of English, Managing Director of Continuing Education, University Registrar, and Senior Policy Analyst. Now retired, she currently lives in Guelph, Ontario. A Town with No Noise is Karen's second novel -- and her third is in progress. 

Kasia Jaronczyk is a Polish-Canadian writer, artist and microbiologist. She immigrated to Canada at the age of 14. Her debut short story collection Lemons was published in 2017 by Mansfield Press. She is a co-editor of the only anthology of Polish-Canadian short stories Polish(ed): Poland Rooted in Canadian Fiction(Guernica Editions, 2017). Her stories were short-listed for the Bristol Prize 2016 and long-listed for CBC Short Story Prize 2010. She has published in Canadian literary magazines such as TNQ, Room, Prairie Journal, Carousel, The Nashwaak Review, Postscripts to Darkness, and in anthologies Wherever I Find Myself, Essays by Canadian Immigrant Women(Miriam Matejova, Ed. Caitlin Press, April 2017) and The Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology(2016. Vol 9.).

 

Sneha Madhavan-Reese Reads 3 October!

 We kick off this year's Reading Series at St. Jerome's with a visit from poet Sneha Madhavan-Reese. 

 Please join us on Friday 3 October at 4:30pm in SJ2 1002. 

The reading is free and all are welcome!

photo credit: Sara McConnell

Sneha Madhavan-Reese is the author of the poetry collections Observing the Moon and Elementary Particles. Her poems have appeared in publications around the world, including The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2016. She is the 2015 winner of Arc Poetry Magazine's Diana Brebner Prize, was shortlisted for the 2015 Montreal International Poetry Prize, and received an honourable mention at the 2018 National Magazine Awards. Her second collection, Elementary Particles, was longlisted for the Raymond Souster Award and was a finalist for the Ottawa Book Award. Sneha lives with her family in Ottawa.