RACHEL KUSHNERThursday October 23, 7PM – 8:30PMYork Amphitheatre EV-1.605, Pavilion EV Building, Concordia University, 1515 Sainte-CatherineW, Montreal Writers Read is pleased to welcome Rachel Kushner on Thursday October 23, 2025 at the York Amphitheatre from 7pm - 8:30pm. Please register below to reserve your place. This event is free and open to everyone. Rachel Kushner … Continue reading Writers Read Presents: Rachel Kushner on Oct 23
Wrap Up & Looking Forward
Highlights from our 2024-2025 season!
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
Writers Read presents: BRICK Literary Magazine
Brick, A Literary Journal celebrates the launch of its winter issue with a special event featuring magazine editors and contributors at Concordia's Writers Read series on Wednesday, December 4. The event will be hosted by Montreal-based, award-winning writer and Brick editor, Madeleine Thien, alongside poet and Brick publisher, Laurie D. Graham. There will be readings … Continue reading Writers Read presents: BRICK Literary Magazine
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
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
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
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
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
Writers Read: Concordia university's reading Series 