Ayelet Tsabari reads 30 October!

Next in our series of Writing the Self / The Self Writing, we're proud to welcome Ayelet Tsabari. Please join us Thursday 30 October at 4:30 pm in STJ 3027.

Photo credit: Sean Brereton

Ayelet Tsabari is the author of the short story collection The Best Place on Earth (HarperCollins), which was nominated for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. Her nonfiction has won a National Magazine Award and a Western Magazine Award and she is a two-time winner of Event’s Creative Non-Fiction Contest. A graduate of the MFA program at Guelph, Ayelet has taught creative writing through the University of Toronto and the University of Guelph. She was named as one of ten Canadian writers to watch by CBC.

Karen Connelly reads 25 September!

As an excellent start to this year's Writing the Self / The Self Writing series, we're pleased to welcome Karen Connelly.

Please join us Thursday 25 September at 8pm in STJ 3014.

Karen Connelly is the author of ten books of award-winning poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. Much of her work explores exile, dissident politics, human rights, and linguistic immersion, particularly in Burma, Thailand, and Greece. She also writes, in various genres, about transgenerational violence and trauma. Her most recent collection of poetry, Come Cold River, is a memoir about her troubled family, as well as a moving homage to many people in Canada who are invisibilized and silenced.

Her acclaimed novel The Lizard Cage was the winner of Britain's Orange Broadband New Writers Prize; Touch the Dragon, winner of the Governor General's Award; Burmese Lessons: A Love Story, shortlisted for the Governor General's Award and the BC National Award for Nonfiction.

Eric McCormack is back! Reading 18 Sept

Beloved and legendary former St. Jerome's professor, Eric McCormack, has a new book just out and will be regaling us with a reading. 

The small print:
Fireplace Lounge, Sweeney Hall, St. Jerome's University, 290 Westmount Rd. N., Waterloo, ON. Free parking available at St Paul's University College. For more information, please contact Kelly Macnab at 519-884-8111 ext. 28301, kmacnab@uwaterloo.ca

Announcing our 2014-15 Series: Writing the Self / The Self Writing

Our series this year features writers who explore the relationship between self and world -- socially, politically, culturally -- and dynamically balance imagination and "real life".

Hope to see you at these exciting readings!

Karen Connelly
Thursday 25 September, 8pm, STJ 3014

Ayelet Tsabari
Thursday 30 October, 4:30pm, STJ 3027

Olive Senior
Thursday 20 November, 4:30 pm, STJ 3027

Shyam Selvadurai
Thursday 15 January, 8pm

Patrick Friesen
Thursday 22 January, 4:30pm

Daniel David Moses reads 27 March!

Photo credit:  John Reeves

We draw our Literartistry series to a resounding close with a reading from the wonderful Daniel David Moses. Please join us on Thursday 27 March at 4:30pm in STJ 3014. The opening act will be A. Y. Daring.

Daniel David Moses hails from the Six Nations lands along the Grand River in southern Ontario. He is registered there as a Delaware Indian.

His poems are collected in Delicate Bodies, The White Line and Sixteen Jesuses. Other publications include Pursued by a Bear, Talks, Monologues and Tales, essays (2005), Kyotopolis, a play in two acts (2008), and A Small Essay on the Largeness of Light and Other Poems (2012), all from Exile Editions, and his best known play Almighty Voice and His Wife (2009), Playwrights Canada Press. He is also co-editor of Oxford University Press’ An Anthology of Canadian Native Literature in English, the fourth edition of which has just appeared (February 2013).

He holds an Honours BA in General Fine Arts from York University, an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia and, as an associate professor, teaches playwrighting in the Department of Drama at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario.

Our next two readers: Lisa Moore (26 Feb) and rob mclennan (5 Mar)

Come and hear the author of February this February at St Jerome's! We're excited to welcome this bestselling novelist, a tremendous addition to our Literartistry series.

Lisa Moore reads Wednesday 26 February at 8pm in Siegfried Hall.

The opening act will be Justine Alkema.

Then March will come in like a lion for us with the dynamic rob mclennan, poet, novelist, non-fiction writer, publisher, editor, reviewer...

rob mclennan reads Wednesday 5 March, 4:30pm, STJ 2011.

The opening act will be Elizabeth Bate.

More about the authors:

image source:
http://thetorontoquarterly.blogspot.ca/
2013/11/lisa-moore-caught-interview.html

Lisa Moore is a three-time Giller Prize nominee, for her novels Open, Alligator and Caught. Her novel February was long listed for the Man Booker Prize and won the CBC Canada Reads competition in 2013. Last Fall she received the Writers' Trust Findlay / Engel Prize. She has done animation work, written for television and radio, and has also written art criticism.

photo credit: Christine McNair

Born in Ottawa, Canada’s glorious capital city, rob mclennan currently lives in Ottawa. The author of more than twenty trade books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction, he won the John Newlove Poetry Award in 2011, and his most recent titles are the poetry collections Songs for little sleep, (Obvious Epiphanies, 2012), grief notes: (BlazeVOX [books], 2012), A (short) history of l. (BuschekBooks, 2011), Glengarry (Talonbooks, 2011) and kate street (Moira, 2011), and a second novel, missing persons (2009). An editor and publisher, he runs above/ground press, Chaudiere Books (with Jennifer Mulligan), The Garneau Review (ottawater.com/garneaureview), seventeen seconds: a journal of poetry and poetics (ottawater.com/seventeenseconds) and the Ottawa poetry pdf annual ottawater (ottawater.com). He spent the 2007-8 academic year in Edmonton as writer-in-residence at the University of Alberta, and regularly posts reviews, essays, interviews and other notices at robmclennan.blogspot.com

Gabe Foreman reads 24 January!

Please join us for our first event of the new year, which is bound to be a fun one. Who doesn't need a good, witty, poetic laugh at the end of January? 

Gabe Foreman reads on Friday 24 January, at 8pm, in STJ 3027.

The opening act will be Lishni Salgado.

Photo credit: Anna Ross

Gabe Foreman grew up near Thunder Bay, Ontario. He is a founding editor of littlefishcartpress, a small poetry press based in Orono, Ontario. His first collection of poems, A Complete Encyclopedia of Different Types of People (Coach House Books), received the 2011 A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry and was a finalist for the Concordia University First Book Prize. His poems have appeared most recently in The Walrus, and have aired on CBC radio (Daybreak). He lives in Montreal.