But we all know how beautiful it will be by March 20. Spring will be here and our hopes will be high. Join us as a new host, Chuck Crabbe, takes the stage, offering up more of the best CanLit has to offer! The weather suggests (never say promises in Canada!) that we may be able... Continue Reading →
Fight the February Blah Blah Blahs
Join us on February 21 for an end of winter (yes!) reading celebration. Feel free to email us some questions for the authors. Or join us so you can hear them read from their work and buy a book or two! February 21 Suzanne Alyssa Andrew Jess Taylor Susan Glickman Jean Marc Ah-Sen
January 31: Our Happy New Year Readings!
Join us on Sunday January 31 from 5pm at Magic Oven on Keele. There is magic in the written word. A good story will change your mind! Whether emotionally, psychologically or just physically, a story will leave you a little different than you were before you heard it. Join us for an evening of great... Continue Reading →
December 20: Junction Reads {Pizza and Lit}
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 →
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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