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.
Vinh Nguyen is a writer and educator based at Renison University College. He is the author of the speculative memoir The Migrant Rain Falls in Reverse, a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award for Nonfiction, the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Nonfiction Prize, and the Toronto Book Award. His academic monograph Lived Refuge: Gratitude, Resentment, Resilience won Outstanding Achievement in Literary Studies from the Association for Asian American Studies and the American Studies Association's Shelly Fisher Fishkin Prize for International Scholarship in Transnational American Studies. He is working on a novel.
The reading will take place in the St. Jerome's Academic Centre, SJ2 1002
The reading is free and all are welcome!