Support Junction Reads

This season, all funds will go directly to The First Thirty, to pay the authors. We will also use some funds to pay our Event Coordinator, should the grant amount fall short.

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Most Canadian writers wear many hats. In addition to being authors, they are their own researchers, editors, publicists, marketers and salespeople. Getting their books into your hands is hard work, usually for little pay. And it often means participating in readings, book clubs and other events for free. The amazing cultural content you’re experiencing through Junction Reads comes to you at no charge. Our events are hosted on a pay-what-you-can basis, and whatever we collect at the door or through our online event portal goes entirely to the authors. What this means is that our Event Coordinator, our admin, and everyone else who works hard to keep the series going, does so, for free. We have applied for another grant, and while we hope to not receive a third rejection this year, even with the grant money, the people and authors involved in the series will not get paid enough.

Please, if you can, support our contributors and admin team with a financial donation, we would greatly appreciate it. Every donor will be included in every single raffle this season.

Readers

Junction Reads Events

We host up to 30 authors a season. While we have enough money from the Toronto Arts Council to support our authors and guest hosts at Junction Reads, we’d like to pay our event coordinator and the authors who join us for The First Thirty (currently not included in our funding model). All donations this season will support The First Thirty authors and our EC.

If it is easier, you can also send an etransfer: junctionreads@gmail.com

Writers

Along with our events, we hope to start a new reviews page. If we get enough donations, we will also invited submissions (from scheduled authors) of prose and maybe even poetry.