Join us at Campus Saint-Jean on Wednesday, September 25 for a Midi littéraire du CLC with Québecois poet and scholar Nicholas Giguère.

Nicholas Giguère est doctorant à l’Université de Sherbrooke. Il a publié des textes dans Boulette, Cavale, Le Crachoir de Flaubert, Les Écrits, Le Pied et Moebius. Son recueil Marques déposées a été publié aux Éditions Fond’Tonne au printemps 2015. Il a publié Queues chez Hamac en 2017.

25 septembre 2019
13 h 30
Grand Salon (salle Marcelle et Louis Desrochers)
Campus Saint-Jean

Join us and our friends at LitFest for a very special Brown Bag Lunch Reading with novelist, poet, and essayist Kai Cheng Thom.

Kai Cheng Thom is a writer, performance artist, and community healer in Toronto. Her novel Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir was released by Metonymy Press in 2016. Her first poetry book, a place called No Homeland, and her picture book From the Stars in the Sky to the Fish in the Sea, illustrated by Kai Yun Ching and Wai-Yant Li, were both published by Arsenal Pulp Press in 2017. Her latest, I Hope We Choose Love, has just been published. Kai Cheng won the Writers’ Trust of Canada’s Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers in 2017.

Monday, October 21, 2021
12:00 PM
Student Lounge, Old Arts Building

Join us and our friends at LitFest for a special Brown Bag Lunch Reading with bestselling novelist and memoirist Ami McKay!

Ami McKay is the author of three internationally bestselling novels The Birth House, The Virgin Cure and The Witches of New York and the recent yuletide novella, Half Spent Was the Night. She is also a playwright, composer, and writer of creative non-fiction. Her genetic memoir, Daughter of Family G: A Memoir of Cancer Genes, Love and Fate, was published by Knopf Canada in September, 2019.

Tuesday, October 22, 2021
Student Lounge, Old Arts Building

Join us on Wednesday, November 20, 2021 for a CLC Brown Bag Lunch with celebrated poet, novelist, and scholar Sina Queyras.

Sina Queyras is the author of the poetry collections, MxT, Expressway and Lemon Hound. Their work has been nominated for a Governor General’s Award, and won The Friends of Poetry Award from Poetry Magazine, The AM Klein Award for Poetry, a Lambda, the Pat Lowther Award, a Pushcart Prize and Gold in the National Magazine Award. Their first novel, Autobiography of Childhood was nominated for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award. In 2005 they edited Open Field: 30 Contemporary Canadian Poets, and they are founding editor of Lemon Hound.

Wednesday, November 20, 2021
12:00 PM
Student Lounge, Old Arts Building