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.

05 January 2026

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.

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