Announcing our 2019-2020 Season
Announcing our season overview, from October 2019 to April 2020. Save the date. More details on each event to come.
Save the Date!
Coming soon, our list of Writers Events for the 2019-2020 season! First up, David Chariandy and Shazia Hafiz Ramji on October 24th 2019. Look for the event posting on Facebook.
Fred Moten
Recording of Fred Moten's reading at Concordia on September 27, 2017. Hosted by Sina Queyras, introduction by David Bradford.
Billy-Ray & Lindsay Friday, March 22
Get there early. We anticipate both events will be full to capacity. Doors for the evening reading open at 6:50.
From the Archive: Major Jackson reads OK Cupid
Major Jackson, York Amphitheatre, September 30th, 2015
In Conversation: Rachel Zellars & Roxane Gay
Writing these essays was of acknowledging my existence that you just don't see written about all too often. The black experience is often times limited to a one very specific type of story and I think that we have to broaden our cultural understanding of what it means to be black. –Roxane Gay talking about Bad … Continue reading In Conversation: Rachel Zellars & Roxane Gay
Listen In: Two poems from Daniel Zomparelli & Dina del Bucchia
From our 20015/20016 reading. We'll post a little more of this event in the coming weeks, along with the brilliant introduction by Jake Byrne.
Gail Scott Marathon Reading of My Paris
This event took place over a six hour period on October 16th, 2014 in the Hall Building and featured approximately 70 readers in French and English, curated by Sina Queyras, Genevieve Robichaud and Jesse McEachern. This is the final section and by now, all of the readers are reading at once. Here you can see … Continue reading Gail Scott Marathon Reading of My Paris
Billy-Ray Belcourt & Lindsay Nixon
In collaboration with the CEP, Writers Read is pleased to present attendees of our events with an original broadside designed to honour our guests and celebrate the occasion of their visit. You’ll have to come to get one with a new poem by Billy-Ray Belcourt. They’re quite something, and I thank Jessica Bebenek for design … Continue reading Billy-Ray Belcourt & Lindsay Nixon
Renee Gladman & Gail Scott
excerpt from Gail Scott and Renee Gladman in Conversation: introduced by Tatum Howey. #writersread #offthepage
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
Fall 2018: Eileen Myles and CAConrad
The 2018-19 Writers Read season begins with two provocative writers: poet, memoirist, and novelist, Eileen Myles and visionary poet CAConrad. Eileen Myles is a poet, novelist, performer and art journalist. Their twenty books includeAfterglow (a dog memoir), a 2017 re-issue of Cool for You and I Must Be Living Twice/new and selected poems, … Continue reading Fall 2018: Eileen Myles and CAConrad
Save the Dates!
Friday, October 5, 2018 7pm, Eileen Myles Friday, November 16, 2018 7pm, CA Conrad Concordia University Montreal, Quebec Both events in the York Amphitheatre, EV 1.605!!
Tonight! Renee Gladman and Danielle Dutton at Writers Read
Join Writers Read and Off The Page for "Feminine Utopias: A Reading and Conversation with Renee Gladman and Danielle Dutton" Tonight at 7 PM, York Amphitheatre, EV 1.605, 1515 rue St. Catherine West
Don’t Miss: Saturday, March 17, 2018: Karen Solie, Stephanie Bolster, Tess Liem at OFF THE PAGE/Writers Read
Off The Page and Writers Read present: A Poetry Reading of Feminine Utopias with Karen Solie, Stephanie Bolster, and Tess Liem Saturday, March 17, 2018, 5 PM -6.30 PM, York Amphitheatre, EV 1.605, 1515 rue St. Catherine West
Don’t Miss: Friday, March 16 – Renee Gladman & Danielle Dutton at Writers Read
Feminine Utopias: A Reading and Conversation with Renee Gladman and Danielle Dutton Friday, March 16, 2018, at 7 PM York Amphitheatre, EV 1.605, 1515 rue St. Catherine West
Saturday, March 17th: An Evening of Poetry with Karen Solie, Stephanie Bolster, and Tess Liem
Join Off The Page and Writers Read for an evening of Poetry with Karen Solie, Stephanie Bolster, and Tess Liem: OFF THE PAGE 2018 Schedule Saturday, March 17, 2018, 5-6.30 PM, York Amphitheatre, EV 1.605, 1515 rue St. Catherine West Karen Solie is the author of four collections of poems: Short Haul Engine, Modern and Normal, The Road In … Continue reading Saturday, March 17th: An Evening of Poetry with Karen Solie, Stephanie Bolster, and Tess Liem
OFF THE PAGE 2018 Schedule
The full schedule for Off the Page is out now! Join us for an exciting program of panels and readings with Renee Gladman & Danielle Dutton (Friday 16th) and Karen Solie, Stephanie Bolster, and Tess Liem (Saturday 17th). Download the schedule here: Off The Page 2018 schedule.pdf
Friday, March 16th: An Evening with Renee Gladman & Danielle Dutton
Join Writers Read for an evening of Feminine Utopias with Renee Gladman and Danielle Dutton, a reading and follow-up conversation. Friday, March 16, 2018, 7 PM York Amphitheatre, EV 1.605, 1515 rue St. Catherine West Renee Gladman is a writer and artist preoccupied with lines, crossings, thresholds, and geographies as they play out in the interstices of poetry and … Continue reading Friday, March 16th: An Evening with Renee Gladman & Danielle Dutton
SAVE THE DATE: OFF THE PAGE (March 15th – 17th 2018)
Off The Page is a literary festival run by undergraduate and graduate students from several departments. This year, there will be readings by Renee Gladman, Karen Solie, Danielle Dutton and many more. Panels will be announced soon!
TONIGHT: AN EVENING WITH CANADIAN FICTION WRITER SUZETTE MAYR
SUZETTE MAYR: Friday, November 17th, 2017 Reading - 7pm, EV 1.605 York Amphitheater Suzette Mayr is the author of Moon Honey, The Widows, Venous Hum, and Monoceros which was longlisted for the Giller Prize. She is here to present her most recent novel, Dr. Edith Vane and the Hares of Crawley Hall, a 'manic, queer, and hallucinatory … Continue reading TONIGHT: AN EVENING WITH CANADIAN FICTION WRITER SUZETTE MAYR
Friday, November 17th: An Evening with Suzette Mayr
Join Writers Read for an evening with Suzette Mayr. Suzette Mayr is the author of five novels, including her most recent, Dr. Edith Vane and the Hares of Crawley Hall. Her fourth novel Monoceros was longlisted for the 2011 Giller Prize and has been translated into Italian. Her novels have won the ReLit Award, and the … Continue reading Friday, November 17th: An Evening with Suzette Mayr
TONIGHT: MARINA CARR
MARINA CARR: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3rd, 2017, 7 PM, EV 1.605 YORK AMPHITHEATER Playwright Marina Carr’s works include "By the Bog of Cats", "On Raftery's Hill" and an adaptation of "Anna Karenina.” She recently won the Yale University's Windham-Campbell Prize for Drama. Hosted by Writers Read and The School for Irish Studies. Books will be available for … Continue reading TONIGHT: MARINA CARR
TONIGHT: DAPHNE MARLATT & ERÍN MOURE
DAPHNE MARLATT & ERÍN MOURE: Friday, October 27th, 2017, 7 PM, EV 1.605 York Amphitheater West Coast writer Daphne Marlatt, critically acclaimed poet and novelist, is known for her cross-genre work. Her most recent titles are Liquidities: Vancouver Poems Then and Now (2013) and Reading Sveva (2016), a poetic-ekphrastic biography of the Italian Canadian artist Sveva … Continue reading TONIGHT: DAPHNE MARLATT & ERÍN MOURE
Friday, November 3rd: Marina Carr
Join Writers Read and the Department of Irish Studies for an evening with renowned Irish playwright Marina Carr. Her works include "By the Bog of Cats", "On Raftery's Hill" and an adaptation of "Anna Karenina.” She recently won the Yale University’s Windham-Campbell Prize for Drama. See also this recently published article on Concordia News, and FB … Continue reading Friday, November 3rd: Marina Carr
Friday, October 27th: “Celebrating Feminist Experimentation” with Daphne Marlatt & Erín Moure
Join Writers Read for an evening “Celebrating Feminist Experimentation” with Daphne Marlatt and Erin Moure. West Coast writer Daphne Marlatt, critically acclaimed poet and novelist, is known for her cross-genre work. Her most recent titles are Liquidities: Vancouver Poems Then and Now (2013) and Reading Sveva (2016), a poetic-ekphrastic biography of the Italian Canadian artist Sveva Caetani. This fall Talonbooks will … Continue reading Friday, October 27th: “Celebrating Feminist Experimentation” with Daphne Marlatt & Erín Moure
TONIGHT: Durga Chew-Bose & Haley Mlotek – In Conversation
DURGA CHEW-BOSE & HALEY MLOTEK: Thursday, October 12th, 2017, Molson Building MB 9.A Reading - 7pm Durga Chew-Bose Is a Montréal based writer whose work has appeared in The Guardian, Buzzfeed, The Hairpin, Rolling Stone, GQ, The New Inquiry, n+1, Interview, Paper, and Hazlitt. She will present her first book, Too Much and Not the … Continue reading TONIGHT: Durga Chew-Bose & Haley Mlotek – In Conversation
Thursday, October 12: Durga Chew-Bose & Haley Mlotek – In Conversation
Join Writers Read for an evening “In Conversation” with Durga Chew-Bose and Haley Mlotek. Durga Chew-Bose Is a Montréal based writer whose work has appeared in The Guardian, Buzzfeed, The Hairpin, Rolling Stone, GQ, The New Inquiry, n+1, Interview, Paper, and Hazlitt. She will present her first book, Too Much and Not the Mood (2017). … Continue reading Thursday, October 12: Durga Chew-Bose & Haley Mlotek – In Conversation
TONIGHT: FRED MOTEN – 2017 Lahey Lecture & Reading
FRED MOTEN: Friday, September 29th, Hall Building Room H 763, 1455 de Maisonneuve 2017 Lahey Lecture - 4pm, H763 "And: A Reply to Daniel Tiffany's 'Cheap Signaling.'" Poetry Reading - 7pm, H763 Fred Moten is Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside. Moten’s work explores black studies, performance studies, poetry and critical theory. … Continue reading TONIGHT: FRED MOTEN – 2017 Lahey Lecture & Reading
Friday, September 29: An Evening With Fred Moten
Join Writers Read and the Concordia University Department of English for our 2017 Lahey Lecture, featuring Fred Moten, Professor of English at University of California, Riverside. Moten’s work explores black studies, performance studies, poetry and critical theory. He is the author of In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition (2003), The Little … Continue reading Friday, September 29: An Evening With Fred Moten
SAVE THE DATE
The Writers Read 2017-18 season is almost underway and we are hosting a series of exciting events starting with the 2017 Lahey Lecture by Fred Moten, followed by two exiting double-headers: Durga Chew-Bose and Haley Mlotek, and Daphne Marlatt and Erin Moure, followed in November, by events with Marina Carr and Suzette Mayr. Our spring … Continue reading SAVE THE DATE
unspeakable, unresolvable questions — form and function in Rankine’s Citizen
In anticipation of Claudia Rankine’s visit to Concordia University we are featuring writing that responds to Rankine’s works Citizen: An American Lyric and Don’t Let Me Be Lonely. This piece is by Concordia MA student, Chalsley Taylor. Rankine will be giving a public reading at 7pm, March 10, 2017 in the DeSeve Cinema in Concordia’s Library building on de Maisonneuve. … Continue reading unspeakable, unresolvable questions — form and function in Rankine’s Citizen
The Things We Tell Each Other: A Response to Claudia Rankine’s “Don’t Let Me Be Lonely”
In anticipation of Claudia Rankine’s visit to Concordia University this week we will feature writing that responds to Rankine’s works Citizen: An American Lyric and Don’t Let Me Be Lonely. Rankine will be giving a public reading at 7pm, March 10, 2017 in the DeSeve Cinema in Concordia's Library building on de Maisonneuve. Books will be for sale by the … Continue reading The Things We Tell Each Other: A Response to Claudia Rankine’s “Don’t Let Me Be Lonely”
Rankine. Friday. Montreal.
In anticipation of Claudia Rankine's visit to Concordia University this week we will feature writing by Concordia students responding to Claudia Rankine's works Citizen: An American Lyric and Don't Let Me Be Lonely. For now, here are the details and an article from New Statesmen: United states of prejudice: Claudia Rankine's powerful interrogations of racism Subtitled An American Lyric, Citizen has … Continue reading Rankine. Friday. Montreal.
Citizen Artist Feature: Toyin Ojih Odutola
Toyin Ojih Odutola's piece Uncertain yet Reserved is featured in Claudia Rankine's book Citizen: An American Lyric. Rankine will be reading at Concordia University on March 10, 2017. Details here. Ojih Odutola (b. 1985, Ife, Nigeria) is a visual artist who creates drawings exploiting diverse mediums to emphasize how an image is a striated terrain to mine beyond formulaic … Continue reading Citizen Artist Feature: Toyin Ojih Odutola
An Evening with Claudia Rankine
An Evening with Claudia Rankine: March 10, 2017 7pm J.A. de Sève Cinema, Webster Library, Concordia University, 1400 Boulevard de Maisonneuve O, Montréal Join us for a reading and discussion with Claudia Rankine. She is the author of five collections of poetry including Citizen: An American Lyric and Don’t Let Me Be Lonely; two … Continue reading An Evening with Claudia Rankine
The Racial Imaginary
"...our imaginations are creatures as limited as we ourselves are. They are not some special, uninfiltrated realm that transcends the messy realities of our lives and minds. To think of creativity in terms of transcendence is itself specific and partial—a lovely dream perhaps, but an inhuman one." -Claudia Rankine and Beth Loffreda via LitHub, which … Continue reading The Racial Imaginary
Claudia Rankine on Martin Luther King Jr. Day
In a recent article by Maria Robins-Somerville, Claudia Rankine talks about writing Citizen, taking part in the Martin Luther King Jr. Day symposium and racial imaginaries. Read the full article from The Michigan Daily. Claudia Rankine will be reading at Concordia University on March 10th, 2017.
Link Round Up: Citizen
Claudia Rankine will be reading at Concordia University on March 10th, 2017. Recipient of the 2016 MacArthur Fellowship, Claudia Rankine is the author of five collections of poetry including Citizen: An American Lyric and Don’t Let Me Be Lonely. David Hammons is the creator is In the Hood (1993), the artwork featured on the cover of Rankine's Citizen and pictured … Continue reading Link Round Up: Citizen
5pm Haunting / 7pm Reading
~*~* 5pm Library Building, 6th Floor, 1400 de Maisonneuve ~*~* We talk about writing without respect to it as an embodied practice for some—always highly political and always highly personal. We talk about writing with a set of tools by which to understand it—tools that have turned into standards, and standards that have turned … Continue reading 5pm Haunting / 7pm Reading
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
How Poems Work: “Enough” by Suzanne Buffam
From The Irrationalist. I am wearing dark glasses inside the house To match my dark mood. I have left all the sugar out of the pie. My rage is a kind of domestic rage. I learned it from my mother Who learned it from her mother before her And so on. Surely … Continue reading How Poems Work: “Enough” by Suzanne Buffam
OFF THE PAGE SCHEDULE
The schedule is here!! See you out and about. Download here: otp-fall2016-program-clr.
Anna Leventhal: Don’t Call Her ‘Quirky’
“I think ‘quirky’ is a term that’s used to dismiss work, in particular by women, that’s challenging or hard to categorize" - Anna Leventhal, Montreal Gazette In an interview with the Montreal Gazette, Anna Leventhal discusses her short story collection Sweet Affliction, and why she definitively does not want to be called quirky: "Quirky’ makes your … Continue reading Anna Leventhal: Don’t Call Her ‘Quirky’
Bydlowska on The Next Chapter: Escaping Herself
In a recent interview with The Next Chapter on CBC Radio One, Jowita Bydlowska discusses the inspiration for her first novel, Guy: escaping herself. She started writing the novel during the editing stage of Drunk Mom, and found the idea of spending time in the mind of a misogynistic womanizer liberating after spending so much time writing … Continue reading Bydlowska on The Next Chapter: Escaping Herself
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
In with the New Shockley
Off the Page event: November 4th, 7pm, York Amphitheatre, EV 1.605, 1515 Rue St. Catherine Those who know Evie Shockley from her 2006 publication, a half-red sea (Carolina Wren Press, 2006), will know how her lyrical style contains themes of ancestry and racial identity which flow through contexts of modern existential threats. Shockley’s words are … Continue reading In with the New Shockley
Chloe Caldwell on Shame
"When men create characters based on themselves, they are innovative; when women do it, they’re shaming their families." - Chloe Caldwell, Catapult Read Chloe Caldwell's piece here. In a recent article for Catapult's online magazine, Chloe Caldwell voices her frustration about the inequality of assumed shame for writers, especially when their stories and characters … Continue reading Chloe Caldwell on Shame
How Poems Work: A Selection from Suzanne Buffam’s “A Pillow Book”
From A Pillow Book, pages 41-43. Some nights I visit Inés Fernández, the forlorn school teacher from southwestern Spain, who yawned once in the sun at a passing religious procession, felt a brief, searing pain through the back of her skull, and never slept another wink all her life. For the next thirty years she … Continue reading How Poems Work: A Selection from Suzanne Buffam’s “A Pillow Book”
KATHRYN MOCKLER & ERIN ROBINSONG: A READING & A WORKSHOP ON POETRY & CLIMATE CHANGE ACTIVISM Co-sponsored with Concordia’s Graduate Student Association Friday October 25th, 2019 VAV Gallery 1395 René-Lévesque Blvd. W. 4pm – 6 pm
Writers Read x SAGE co-sponsor a reading event and workshop on Climate Change Activism in the VAV Gallery on Friday 25th October 2019 from 4pm - 6pm. Not to be missed! Kathryn Mockler is the author of the poetry books Some Theories (ST Press, 2017), The Purpose Pitch (Mansfield Press, 2015), The Saddest Place on … Continue reading KATHRYN MOCKLER & ERIN ROBINSONG: A READING & A WORKSHOP ON POETRY & CLIMATE CHANGE ACTIVISM Co-sponsored with Concordia’s Graduate Student Association Friday October 25th, 2019 VAV Gallery 1395 René-Lévesque Blvd. W. 4pm – 6 pm
WRITERS READ X ECOTONES 6 WITH CENTRE FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES IN SOCIETY AND CULTURE PRESENT: David Chariandy and Shazia Hafiz Ramji Post/Colonial Ports: Place and Nonplace in the Ecotone Thursday, October 24, 2019, 6-8 pm Concordia’s 4th Space, 1400 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.
Writers Read hosts the literary reading component for Ecotones 6 with CISSC on the evening of Thursday, October 24th 2019 featuring David Chariandy and Shazia Hafiz Ramji. Admission is free and open to the public. David Chariandy grew up in Toronto and lives and teaches in Vancouver. His debut novel, Soucouyant, received stunning reviews … Continue reading WRITERS READ X ECOTONES 6 WITH CENTRE FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES IN SOCIETY AND CULTURE PRESENT: David Chariandy and Shazia Hafiz Ramji Post/Colonial Ports: Place and Nonplace in the Ecotone Thursday, October 24, 2019, 6-8 pm Concordia’s 4th Space, 1400 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.
A Masterclass with Doireann Ní Ghríofa *for students only* Friday, October 18th from 12:00 – 2:00 H 1001 Hall Building Concordia University 1455 Boulevard de Maisonneuve Ouest
To compliment An Evening of Irish and Choctaw Poetry with Doireann Ní Ghríofa and LeAnne Howe Thursday, October 17th@ 7 pm EV-6.720 (1515 St. Catherine West, 6th floor) Please Note: All students are welcome to register for this event but seating is limited to 30 spots. To register e-mail: writersreadconcordia@gmail.com with the subject line “Registration” … Continue reading A Masterclass with Doireann Ní Ghríofa *for students only* Friday, October 18th from 12:00 – 2:00 H 1001 Hall Building Concordia University 1455 Boulevard de Maisonneuve Ouest
Writers Read, The School of Canadian Irish Studies, & Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace present: An Evening of Irish and Choctaw Poetry with Doireann Ní Ghríofa and LeAnne Howe Thursday, October 17th @ 7 pm EV-6.720 (1515 St. Catherine West, 6th floor)
An Evening of Irish and Choctaw Poetry with Doireann Ní Ghríofa and LeAnne Howe Thursday, October 17th@ 7 pm EV-6.720 (1515 St. Catherine West, 6th floor) Doireann Ní Ghríofa is a bilingual Irish writer whose books explore birth, death, desire, and domesticity. A Book of the Year in both The Irish Times and The Irish Independent, her … Continue reading Writers Read, The School of Canadian Irish Studies, & Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace present: An Evening of Irish and Choctaw Poetry with Doireann Ní Ghríofa and LeAnne Howe Thursday, October 17th @ 7 pm EV-6.720 (1515 St. Catherine West, 6th floor)
