Yes, we know how to read pizza! Join us on December 20 from 5pm for a literature party like no other. Drink and be merry, be merry and read a couple of pages (and we do mean no more than 2, ordinary spaces and ordinary margins, in an ordinary sized font using extraordinary language). Drink,... Continue Reading →
End of a great season!
Thank you to everyone who participated and supported Junction Reads in our 2014-15 season. Join some great writers at Pandemonium Books on June 27th, from 7pm. The Book Bash, hosted by Ray Robertson with April L. Ford, James Grainger and Jason Schneider Share this: Press This Twitter3 Facebook Google https://widgets.wp.com/likes/#blog_id=73254355&post_id=15&origin=junctionreads.wordpress.com&obj_id=73254355-15-553e7433db53c Edit Leave a Reply Authors
April 19th: Another Change!!!
Join us on Sunday April 19th for an afternoon of great readings. From 4-7pm we will host: Daniel Perry Marianne Miller Vanessa Shields Bruce Meyer Alexandra Leggatt Sorry for the changes, but we are fitting ourselves on to a stage that normally hosts great bands and local talent that pays to use the stage. Hope... Continue Reading →
February 22nd at 3030 Dundas West
We are excited to finish our first year with a great line up. 3030 is a super venue with a fantastic menu and delicious indie beers on tap. The Junction just happens to be the coolest place in Toronto to live and work. Hope we see you there! 4-7pm 3030 Dundas West, Toronto. February 22,... Continue Reading →
The Anxiety of Influence
An enlightening question and answer this evening. The fear every writer carries into each new work that we cannot create anything new, that there are no new ideas. Harold Bloom's Theory of Poetry discusses the relationship between the individual artist and every great artist that has come before us. How can we escape the influence... Continue Reading →
Happy New Year’s reading on January 25th
January 25th, 2015 @3030 Dundas West We are so excited to have the following writers join us on stage. Alicia Elliot is a fellow graduate of York University's Creative Writing Program. One of her short stories can be read on The Toast. Her writing is funny, purposeful and thoroughly enchanting. Ruth Walker is the author... Continue Reading →
November 30th @ 3030 Dundas West
What a lively and fun afternoon with some great writers! Robert Shaw Jerry Levy Alisha Piercy Ray Robertson Titillating subject in the Q and A. Is the short story still a valued and worthwhile style of fiction? Many agreed that it is the big publishers and their narrow focus on money that has caused the... Continue Reading →
September 28 at 3030 Dundas West
Junction Reads had an impressive relaunch on Sunday. Blog post to come.......
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