Getting prepared for our second reading of the season and our last of 2017. This year has been a great one for so many of our readers. Many have been nominated and won some awards and others have completed another book. November 26 at 5:00pm Famous Last Words, 392 Pacific Ave (in the heart of the... Continue Reading →

The summer will sadly be finally over and that sad goodbye can only be buoyed by a good book or a delicious cocktail! Join us Sunday October 29 at 5:00pm at Famous Last Words! Bethlehem Terrefe Gebreyohannes brings us her  beautiful, thrilling and heart-wrenching memoir, Fire Walkers, about her family's escape from a totalitarian regime of a... Continue Reading →

You know people say money can't buy you happiness. Well that is not true! It would make me very very happy to have a photographer and now that Junction Reads has a bit of money (Thank you Toronto Arts Council) we can offer a bit of cash to an aspiring, but still talented, photographer. If... Continue Reading →

Although I dreamed of taking a year off and booking myself into a hotel every weekend until I finished my own novel, I cannot abandon my other dream, my dream of building a stronger more vibrant literary community right here in Toronto! Along with so many other fabulous reading series in Toronto, we hope to... Continue Reading →

Firstly, I am a proud Canadian. I love this country. And when compared to others, we are doing a stellar job, but we are not perfect. And just because we’re in the top ten of some list, it does not mean we shouldn’t want to be better.   I am the fourth born kid of... Continue Reading →

Join us on Sunday May 28 at 5pm,  at Famous Last Words, for our last readings of the season.   Mike Knox, Nora Gold, Ian Hamilton, Elyssa Marcoux Bissoondath and Cary Fagan join us for another unique event. Each and every month I am surprised at how lucky we are to have 5 great writers on... Continue Reading →

Junction Reads is thrilled to announce our very first readings for our YA readers and writers. There is much evidence that proves deep reading at a young age improves intelligence, empathy and general niceness. We all want to to have nice smart kids, don't we? Yes!. Bring them to Famous Last Word on April 30... Continue Reading →

In a world filled with readers who are being spoon-fed news stories like helpless babies, we might want to stop and read a book. Nothing can be more provocative and life-changing than a good book. We know this and yet we continue to read blurbs and blips of clips of real or fake news (who... Continue Reading →

February 19   BOOKS ARE THE NEW BLAH!! February has nothing on the winter blues, when you've got books, cocktails and the voices of talented wordsmiths to keep you going! Join us as we engage in an exchange of words, ideas and stories from B.D. Ferguson, Lisa de Nikolits, Bianca Lakoseljic, Marissa Stapley and Zoe Whittall Follow a group of... Continue Reading →