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.

21 December 2010

David Morrell, creator of Rambo, speaks

 A SJU English alumnus of whom we are very proud, David Morrell, author of First Blood, Creepers, The Spy who Came for Christmas, The Successful Novelist, and many other works, will be giving a talk about writing. This is one of the feature events in the celebrations of the University of Waterloo English Department's 50th anniversary.

27 January 2011, 7pm, Siegfried Hall. Cost: $10.
To find out more, and to register, please visit
UW English at 50: Events