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.
Nicholas Herring's head-spinning debut novel, Some Hellish, won the prestigious Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. Critics described it as "heart-wrenchingly beautiful," "irreverent, screwball, and inspired," and "a winding, raucous ride." His writing has also appeared in The Puritan, and The Fiddlehead.
Herring graduated from St. Jerome's University with an honours degree in English Literature and attended the University of Toronto, where he completed an MA in Creative Writing. He lives in Murray Harbour, Prince Edward Island, where he works as a fisherman and a carpenter. Herring's second novel Your Breath in Charcoal has recently been shortlisted for the Giller Prize.
The reading will take place in the St. Jerome's Academic Centre, SJ2 1004
The reading is free and all are welcome!