Karen Smythe and Kasia Jaronczyk read 7 November!

We have a double-header reading coming up in November as we welcome Karen Smythe and Kasia Jaronczyk, two writers coming to us from Guelph. 

Please join us on Friday 7 November at 4:30pm in SJ2 1002. 

The reading is free and all are welcome, so please spread the word!

Karen Smythe is the author of the novel This Side of Sad (from Goose Lane Editions, 2017), the story collection Stubborn Bones (from Raincoast, 2001), and the critical study Figuring Grief: Gallant, Munro, and the Poetics of Elegy (from McGill-Queen’s U.P., 1992). Her scholarship was published widely in academic journals, and several of her short stories appeared in Canadian literary journals such as The Fiddlehead, Grain, and The Antigonish Review.  Karen’s professional career took her across Canada in various roles including Assistant Professor of English, Managing Director of Continuing Education, University Registrar, and Senior Policy Analyst. Now retired, she currently lives in Guelph, Ontario. A Town with No Noise is Karen's second novel -- and her third is in progress. 

Kasia Jaronczyk is a Polish-Canadian writer, artist and microbiologist. She immigrated to Canada at the age of 14. Her debut short story collection Lemons was published in 2017 by Mansfield Press. She is a co-editor of the only anthology of Polish-Canadian short stories Polish(ed): Poland Rooted in Canadian Fiction(Guernica Editions, 2017). Her stories were short-listed for the Bristol Prize 2016 and long-listed for CBC Short Story Prize 2010. She has published in Canadian literary magazines such as TNQ, Room, Prairie Journal, Carousel, The Nashwaak Review, Postscripts to Darkness, and in anthologies Wherever I Find Myself, Essays by Canadian Immigrant Women(Miriam Matejova, Ed. Caitlin Press, April 2017) and The Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology(2016. Vol 9.).