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.

15 September 2023

Darlene Madott reads 27 October!

Announcing our first reader for 2023-24: we're very happy to be kicking off this year's series with a reading from Darlene Madott! 

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

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

 

Photo credit: Eric Fefferman

 

 About Darlene Madott:

"A Toronto-based lawyer who practised for over three decades, I have authored nine books, including Winners and Losers (GUERNICA, 2021), Dying Times (EXILE, 2021), Making Olives and Other Family Secrets (Ripasso) (LONGBRIDGE BOOKS, 2014), Stations of the Heart (EXILE, 2012), and Joy, Joy, Why Do I Sing? (WOMEN’S PRESS, 2004). I have twice won the Bressani Literary Award and have been shortlisted for the Gloria Vanderbilt sponsored Carter V. Cooper Short Fiction Award three times, as well as being a frequent finalist in Accenti Magazine competitions. My short fiction has been widely anthologized, including anthologies arising out of the International Conferences of the Short Story in English, alongside internationally acclaimed authors. Author Guy Vanderhaeghe described my short stories as “haunting meditations by a fine artist blessed with a scrupulous intelligence.” Caterina Edwards: “Madott’s short stories remind me of why I love the genre. They need to be read and reread. So many left me breathless in admiration.” My fiction has also been translated and published into Italian. For more about me and my books, kindly visit: www.DarleneMadott.com."

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11 February 2023

Claire Tacon Reads 10 March!

A whole bunch of snow prevented us from having Claire's reading on the 3rd. We've rescheduled to Friday 10 March, same time, same place. Hope to see you there!

We're delighted and excited to have our very own Claire Tacon read for us as part of our Coming Back/Home series this year!

Please join us on Friday 3 March 10 March at 4:30pm in SJ2 1002.

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

Claire Tacon is the author of In Search of the Perfect Singing Flamingo (Wolsak & Wynn), which was the 2019 Hamilton Reads selection. Her first novel In the Field (Biblioasis) was the winner of the 2010 Metcalf-Rooke Award and her short fiction has been shortlisted for the Bronwen Wallace Award, the CBC Literary Prize and has appeared in various journals and anthologies. In partnership with The New Quarterly, Claire is also the host and producer of the Parallel Careers podcast. She has an MFA from the University of British Columbia and has been a lecturer at St. Jerome's University since 2011.

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16 January 2023

Benjamin Lefebvre reads 10 February!

We're very happy to be welcoming author, editor, and scholar Benjamin Lefebvre to give our first reading for this Winter term.

Please join us on Friday 10 February at 4:30pm in SJ2 1002.

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

Photo by Kassandra Fritz

Benjamin Lefebvre’s first novel, In the Key of Dale (2022), was published by Arsenal Pulp Press, and his short stories have appeared in The Antigonish Review and Plenitude Magazine, with a third forthcoming in The New Quarterly. His most recent edited book is Twice upon a Time: Selected Stories, 1898–1939, part of The L.M. Montgomery Library (University of Toronto Press). He lives in Kitchener and can be found online at benjaminlefebvre.com.

 

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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.

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