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Writers Read Presents: Our Voices

Writers Read is bringing together alumni, faculty and current students to celebrate the voices of our creative writing department. The reading will span the day of Wednesday March 5th. Selected undergraduate and graduate students will open the morning at 11am with their work. This will be followed by a catered lunch and the opportunity to … Continue reading Writers Read Presents: Our Voices

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Introducing Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Read about Alexis Pauline Gumbs In anticipation of our event on Monday 11th November. Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs is the author of four books including Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde. She is a self-professed queer Black feminist love evangelist and an aspirational cousin to all life. In her work, she … Continue reading Introducing Alexis Pauline Gumbs

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Recap: Padma Viswanathan

On Monday, 30th September 2024, renowned author and translator Padma Viswanathan joined Writers Read for our first event of the season. Taking place in the Library Seminar Room, this intimate event welcomed diverse members of the Montreal writing community. Padma read excerpts from her new book Charterhouse of Padma. A very engaged audience joined in … Continue reading Recap: Padma Viswanathan

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November 30th: Kate Colby, Paige Cooper, and Anna Moschovakis

York Amphitheatre, Room EV 1.605, 1515 Rue St. Catherine, Montréal, QC, H3G 2W1 ~DOORS~ will be open just before 4pm, and we will start shortly after everyone is inside and seated. ~~~ Kate Colby is author of seven books of poetry, most recently The Arrangements (Four Way Books, 2018). Dream of the Trenches, a book … Continue reading November 30th: Kate Colby, Paige Cooper, and Anna Moschovakis

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Damian Rogers is a Social Menace

Off the Page Festival welcomes Damian Rogers Thursday, November 3rd, in Concordia’s Grey Nuns Building (1175 Rue St Mathieu), room M100, starting at 7:30pm. Damian Rogers is a social person. “I will talk to someone for hours, no problem. I’m good to talk, as they say,” Rogers recently told Trevor Corkum of 49thshelf.com. The same … Continue reading Damian Rogers is a Social Menace

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From the Archive: Francine Prose

Writers Read looks back at hosting prolific author, Francine Prose, in March, 2014, in Concordia’s Henry F. Hall building. Attendees crowded into the Hall conference room for a reading of Prose’s novel, Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932 (HarperTorch, 2014), and later, a Q&A session with the Brooklyn native. Lovers is a multivocal series … Continue reading From the Archive: Francine Prose

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In with the New Shockley

Off the Page event: November 4th, 7pm, York Amphitheatre, EV 1.605, 1515 Rue St. Catherine Those who know Evie Shockley from her 2006 publication, a half-red sea (Carolina Wren Press, 2006), will know how her lyrical style contains themes of ancestry and racial identity which flow through contexts of modern existential threats. Shockley’s words are … Continue reading In with the New Shockley

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From the Archive: Tanya Tagaq

Writers Read looks back at hosting Tanya Tagaq in October, 2013. That evening, a first-come-first-serve audience crammed into a conference room in Concordia’s Henry F. Hall to witness the unique line-up of throat singer, Tanya Tagaq, experimental poet, Christian Bök, and composer/performance artist, Jaap Blonk. Seating became a competitive event as many people were turned … Continue reading From the Archive: Tanya Tagaq