We have 5 great books coming to Junction Reads on April 29! We are hosting a great mix of Young Adult fiction and Adult fiction with Glynis Guevara, Ursula Pflug, Andrew Daley, Sally Cooper and Ele Pawelski. Join us at Famous Last Words for a perfect evening of readings and discussion. We have a new start time (5:15pm), which gives staff... Continue Reading →
Spring Reading is better than summer reading!!
The Spring promises fresh flowers, rainy rain and sunnier sunshine (alliteration has never been my strong suit) and it also brings new books! Why not come out to meet and mingle with some great writers and snag a few new books? And you won't have to swipe the sweat from your sandy brow like all... Continue Reading →
February 25: Let’s say goodbye to the blahs…together!
5 new readings and 6 fabulous writers! Nothing affirms my faith in a promising future filled with diverse and unique #canlit voices, than a reading such as this! 5:00pm at Famous Last Words: 392 Pacific Ave Tehmina Khan brings us an incredible collections of short stories! Published by Mawenzi House, Things She Could Never Have is... Continue Reading →
January 28 at Famous Last Words!
Join us for the first fantastic readings of 2018! As you may know, we LOVE short fiction here at Junction Reads and this month of readings are an all-you-can-read buffet of inspirational, provocative, surreal, heartbreaking and funny stories from 4 of the best writers in Canada today! See you at Famous Last Words on Sunday January... Continue Reading →
November 26 with Guest Host Brent van Staaduinen
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 →
October 29!
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 →
Junction Reads is looking for a Photographer!!
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 →
Booking Authors for 2017/2018
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 →
Why the 150+ movement still doesn’t satisfy my sense of what is right and what is wrong.
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 →
May 28 Our last event of the season!
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 →
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