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.

Our 2025-26 Series

For our exciting lineup this Fall we have two events and three readers!

Sneha Madhavan-Reese, Friday 3 October, 4:30pm, SJ2 1002 

Karen Smythe and Kasia Jaronczyk, Friday 7 November, 4:30pm, SJ2 1002

And in Winter, we have two events and a collab!

Vinh Nguyen, Friday 6 February, 4:30pm, SJ2 1002

Damian Tarnopolsky, Friday 27 Feburary, 4:30pm, SJ2 1002

George Elliott Clarke and SJU Present 5 Poets Breaking Into Song (#21): Black Magic Friday the 13th in the Great Middle-Eastern/Mediterranean North, Friday 13 March, 6:00-9:00pm, Notre Dame Chapel. Performers: Drew Aarssen, Josiah Ropp, Natalia Sawyer, Lindsay Scott, Chloe Shantz, Isabel Song, Ye Yi. Featuring poetry by: Lamees Al Ethari, Leonard Cohen, George Elliott Clarke, Ehab Lotayef, Leilah Nadir, Mansour Noorbakhsh, Giovanna Riccio. Composers: Holly Arsenault, Eddie Bullen, Emily Hiemstra, D. D. Jackson, Juliet Palmer, Nevawn Patrick, David Jaeger. Co-organized with Lamees Al Ethari and Sarah Tolmie. Event Sponsors: George Elliott Clarke; St. Jerome’s University – Department of English; University of Waterloo – Department of English; Conrad Grebel University; The New Quarterly.

 

 

 

 

 

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