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Writers Read is excited to announce two upcoming master classes to be held at Concordia University. On Friday, March 27, 2015, award winning poets Robert Hass and Brenda Hillman will hold a master class at 11-12 pm in room LB 646. On Tuesday, March 31, 2015, author and broadcaster Jonathan Goldstein will hold a masterclass from … Continue reading

"Our mother was baptized on a kerosene box, our father was baptized in a creek, & we were baptized in a plaster pool while turquoise ripples played around our feet & desert air poofed up to make the long black robe a nylon buffalo. It makes your underpants wet, said our brother. It’s strange to … Continue reading “The Elements Are Mixed in Childhood,” An essay in rhyme by Brenda Hillman

  Check out this interview with our upcoming guest Tim Cresswell, where he discusses his debut poetry collection Soil. "I am certainly interested in, and delighted by, what people refer to as natural landscapes, or even wilderness," says Cresswell, "but I am much more interested in the spaces where the human imprint is obvious. And … Continue reading Tim Cresswell on Soil

Click here for an excerpt from the story "Wireless," part of Lynn Coady's Giller Prize winning Hellgoing. Lynn will be joining us for a masterclass this Friday, March 13, 2015 at 11 am in room LB 646, followed by a public reading at 7 pm, in the de Seve Cinema (1400 de Maisonneuve West). You won't want to … Continue reading Lynn Coady: Excerpt from Hellgoing

Writers Read is happy to announce the details of three (three!) upcoming events. On Friday, March 6 we have Professor, author and editor Anne Jamison who will be joining us at 4 pm in Room LB 646. Anne Jamison is Associate Professor of English at the University of Utah.  She is author of Fic: Why … Continue reading March Madness: Three Announcements

Looking forward to our next guest Anne Jamison, who will be joining us on Friday, March 6 at 4 pm in Room LB 646 (1400 de Maisonneuve West). Anne is Associate Professor of English at the University of Utah and the editor of Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World. She also runs the blog, … Continue reading Happy Saturday: Anne Jamison and Twilight Fan Fiction

"Characters, faces, gestures—all those sweet, tiny details of life that tantalize you daily, that you are dying to absorb and make stories out of. It’s a craving precisely like when you stood in front of the nail polish display at Shopper’s Drug Mart as a 14-year-old, wondering if anyone would notice if you dropped that … Continue reading “The Weirdness” of Lynn Coady