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.

07 February 2026

Damian Tarnopolsky Reads 27 February!

For our next exciting event for the Winter term, we welcome Damian Tarnopolsky!

 Please join us on Friday 27 Feburary at 4:30pm in SJ2 1002.

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

Photo credit: Diego Altamira Olvera

 Damian Tarnopolsky’s most recent book is a collection of linked short stories, Every Night I Dream I’m a Monk, Every Night I Dream I’m a Monster. He is also the author of a previous book of short fiction, a historical novel, a play that takes place at a doctoral exam and, most recently, a chapbook called “A Friend to Words.” His work has been recognized by nominations for several awards including the Journey Prize, the Amazon First Novel Award, and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and Every Night… was awarded the Alberta Book Publishing Awards Book Design of the Year Prize. He teaches at the Narrative-Based Medicine Lab at the University of Toronto.

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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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