Sina Queyras (they/them) 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, for Persea Books. They are founding editor of Lemon Hound. They have taught Creative Writing at Rutgers, Haverford and Concordia University in Montreal where they currently reside.
WRITERS READ
For over 20 years, the Writers Read series has brought a wide range of local and international poets and authors to Concordia for public readings and master classes.
The series is committed to innovative and provocative programming that offers an engaging audience experience.
Director
Assistants
Laura Mota
Laura Mota (she/her) is a Brazilian writer, portrait photographer, and shameless experimentalist in other mediums based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal.
She is pursuing a BA in Creative Writing at Concordia University.
Her poetry has been published in High Shelf, Soliloquies Anthology, Dreamers Magazine, and elsewhere.
Emily Zuberec (she/her) is a poet in the first year of her master's in Creative Writing. Outside of school, she is the managing editor of Commo Magazine.
Upcoming events
Past events
Zooming in interview series
We asked alumni of the Department of English and Writers Read to share a photo of the space where they’re thinking, reading, and writing, and to answer a few questions about how the pandemic has affected their writing practice.
Pop-up Reading video series
The Pop-up Reading series invites the public to submit videos of themselves reading a poem — either an original or a favourite.
To participate, contact us on Instagram.
Chemar Ali-Hasham reads Driving North by Sue Sinclair
