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Billy-Ray Belcourt at Concordia

Writers Read welcomes Billy Ray-Belcourt for a reading and book signing on Monday October 6 at 7:30PM at the John Molson Building Floor 9, Concordia University, 1600 Blvd. De Maisonneuve Ouest, Montreal. Please register below to reserve your place. The event is free to attend and open to everyone.  Billy-Ray Belcourt is a writer and academic from … Continue reading Billy-Ray Belcourt at Concordia

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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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Writers Read Presents: Alexis Pauline Gumbs with Introduction from Amber Rose Johnson

Join Writers Read for our second event of the 2024-2025 season: Dr. Amber Rose Johnson introducing Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs. Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs, author of Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde, is a queer Black feminist love evangelist and an aspirational cousin to all life. Publisher’s Weekly calls her writing … Continue reading Writers Read Presents: Alexis Pauline Gumbs with Introduction from Amber Rose Johnson

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Writers Read 4th Space Events

Concordia University Reading Series Writers Read is part of Concordia University’s Creative Writing program and is supported by the Department of English and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Writers Read, directed by Professor Sina Queyras since 2011, invites renowned and emerging authors, both Canadian and international, to read from and discuss their work with … Continue reading Writers Read 4th Space Events

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Fall 2022 Season

Writers Read is back in-person! Follow us on Instagram @writersreadconcordia for reminders closer to each event's date. All can be found at Concordia's Events calendar. Thursday, October 20th Reading and Q&A with Xochitl Gonzalez 10 - 11:15 AM at LB 322.  In honor of Latin-American Heritage Month, the U.S. Consulate in Montreal is sponsoring a … Continue reading Fall 2022 Season

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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