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.

26 September 2026

Kate Gies reads Friday 30 October!

Here's our first event of this year's series!

Please join us for a reading by Kate Gies on Friday 30 October at 4:30pm in SJ2 1002.



 Kate Gies is a writer and educator living in Toronto, where she teaches creative nonfiction, expressive arts, and other trauma-informed courses at George Brown Polytechnic. Her writing has appeared in The Globe and Mail, The Walrus, The Malahat Review, The Humber Literary Review, Hobart, and the Best Canadian Essays 2024 Anthology. In 2025, she was named a CBC Writer to Watch. Her memoir, It Must Be Beautiful to Be Finished, about her childhood medical experiences related to a missing ear, was listed as a best book of 2025 by CBC Books and the Winnipeg Free Press, and is nominated for the 2026 OLA Evergreen Award.

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