The Reading Series at St. Jerome's: 2022

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.

22 October 2022

Nadja Lubiw-Hazard reads 18 November!

Announcing our second Fall event for our 2022-23 season!

Nadja Lubiw-Hazard will be reading for us on Friday 18 November at 4:30pm in SJ2 1002.

The reading is free and all are welcome! Hope to see you there -- and please spread the word!

Nadja is a Toronto-based writer and a veterinarian. Her work has been published in Understorey, Room, Canthius, The Fiddlehead, The Dalhousie Review, The New Quarterly, and more; her first novel, The Nap-Away Motel, was published in 2019. She is the recent recipient of the Siskiyou Prize for New Environmental Literature. She is a life-long animal-lover and long-time vegan, and her writing often explores themes related to the natural world.

20 September 2022

Manahil Bandukwala reads 21 October!

We are absolutely thrilled to announce our first reading of this season -- the first season in a couple of years for The Reading Series at St. Jerome's!

Our theme for this year is Coming Back/Home. And what better way to kick it off than to welcome an author who is one of our own: an alumna of UWaterloo who published her first book of poems with Brick last Septmber.

Manahil Bandukwala will be reading for us on Friday 21 October at 4:30pm in SJ2 1002.

The reading is free and all are welcome. Hope to see you there! And please spread the word!

Manahil Bandukwala is a writer and visual artist originally from Pakistan and now settled in Canada. In 2021, she was shortlisted for the bpNichol Chapbook Award. She works as Coordinating Editor for Arc Poetry Magazine, and is Digital Content Editor for Canthius. She is a member of Ottawa-based collaborative writing group VII. Her project Reth aur Reghistan is a multidisciplinary exploration of folklore from Pakistan interpreted through poetry and sculpture. She holds an MA in English from the University of Waterloo. Her debut poetry collection is MONUMENT (Brick Books).

13 September 2022

2022-23 Series: Coming Back/Home

Hello everyone -- it's good to be back!

After a two-year hiatus we're pleased to be cooking up a great series of events for this year. Plans are still in progress, but we can say for sure that, as part of our Coming Back/Home theme, our own wonderful Claire Tacon will be reading for us in Winter term.

And this Fall term Manahil Bandukwala will be reading for us on 21 October at 4:30! Details to come. We're thrilled to be helping her celebrate the publication of her debut poetry collection, Mo nument, from Brick Books.

Hope to see you soon!

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