Richard Cumyn reads 1 February!

For our first reading for Winter term, we're delighted to welcome Richard Cumyn.
The opening act will be Yutong Wu.
Please join us Friday 1 February at 4:30pm in SJ1 3027.

Photo credit: Andrew Hamilton

RICHARD CUMYN was born in Ottawa and educated at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. Widely published as a short-story writer, essayist and book reviewer, he has been the fiction editor of The Antigonish Review, taught at the Maritime Writers Workshop in Fredericton and been Writer-in-Residence at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax. He lives in Edmonton.

Jael Richardson reads 16 November!

We're delighted to welcome Jael Richardson for our November reading.

The opening act will be Anoja Parameswaran.

Please join us Friday 16 November at 4:30pm in SJ1 3027.

Jael Richardson is the author of The Stone Thrower: A Daughter’s Lesson, a Father’s Life, a memoir based on her relationship with her father, CFL quarterback Chuck Ealey. The memoir received a CBC Bookie Award and earned Richardson an Acclaim Award and a My People Award as an Emerging Artist and was adapted into a children’s book in 2016. Her essay “Conception” is part of Room Magazine’s first Women of Colour edition, and excerpts from her first play, my upside down black face, are published in the anthology T-Dot Griots: An Anthology of Toronto’s Black Storytellers.

Julie Cameron Gray reads 19 October!

We're excited to kick off our 2018-19 series with poet and fiction writer Julie Cameron Gray.

The opening act will be Krystyna Oakman.

Please join us on Friday 19 October at 4:30pm in SJ1 3027.

photo by Guy Crawford

Julie Cameron Gray is originally from Sudbury, Ontario. She is the author of two poetry collections—Lady Crawford (Palimpsest Press, 2016) and Tangle (Tightrope Books, 2013)—and has previously published in The Fiddlehead, EVENT, Prairie Fire, Carousel, and Best Canadian Poetry (Tightrope Books, 2011). Lady Crawford was shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Award in 2017.