Canadian Writing Comes to You -- Live!

The Reading Series has been bringing cutting-edge Canadian writers to St. Jerome's University since 1984.

Each year we strive to offer a range in our slate of visiting writers: well-established and up-and-coming, from the local area and from sea to sea, working in verse and prose and beyond. Experimental and traditional, serious and playful, beautiful and stark, cynical and celebratory -- come and sample the wealth and variety that is Canadian literature today.

These readings are special opportunities to get inside the book -- to hear writers read their own words, and speak about their own writing. Every reading includes an open question and answer session.

All readings are free and open to the public. And there's free parking!

St. Jerome's is located at 290 Westmount Road North, Waterloo, Ontario.

From its beginnings through 2018-19, the Reading Series has been funded by the Canada Council for the Arts and St. Jerome's University. It now continues to be funded by St. Jerome's.

15 September 2025

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. 

 

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03 February 2025

Keith Hazzard Reads 7 March!

The last event in this year's fabulous series is a reading by Keith Hazzard!

Please join us on 7 March at 4:30pm in SJ2 1002. And please spread the word!

 

Photo credit: Karen Smythe

Keith Hazzard writes stories, poems, and plays. As Jesus Hardwell, he published Easy Living, a collection of short stories, with Exile Editions (2011). The title story from that book appeared in EXILE Quarterly, as well as being included in that year’s Journey Prize Anthology; another of its stories won a Silver National Magazine Award. Keith's plays have been produced in Saint John, Guelph, and Kitchener. He lives in Guelph, Ontario.

 His latest book is Brief Lives,
published by Exile Editions.

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