The Lakeshore Campus of Humber College will again be hosting two literary readings during the 2017-2018 academic year. The readings will begin at 12 noon. They will occur in the Assembly Hall, 1 Colonel Samuel Smith Park Drive (at Kipling Avenue and Lakeshore Boulevard West.). The authors will read selections from their work. Afterwards there will be time for questions from the audience. The readings are free and open to the public.

Krista Bridge will open the series on Wednesday, October 25, 2017. Krista is the author of The Virgin Spy. This collection of short stories was shortlisted for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award and a ReLit Award. The Vancouver Sun advises that “… for [Krista Bridge’s] staggering talent and honesty, you shouldn’t pass over this superb collection of stories … sizzling language and alluring, memorable characters threatened by competing desires….”  The Globe and Mail reports that “The Virgin Spy is entrancing, and Krista Bridge is vastly talented.”

Krista’s first novel, The Eliot Girls, a novel full of drama and insight into the world of an all-girls’ private school, was a finalist for the 2013 Amazon.ca First Novel Award. The Eliot Girls was also shortlisted for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize.

Antanas Sileika will read on Wednesday, March 7, 2018. In 1979, Antanas began teaching at Humber College and working as a co-editor of the Canadian journal Descant. At Humber, he went on to become the director of the distinguished Humber School for Writers.

Antanas published his first novel, Dinner at the End of the World, in 1994. His second book, a collection of linked stories, Buying on Time, was nominated for the City of Toronto Book Award and the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour. His third book, Woman in Bronze, was published in 2004. It compares the life of a young man in Czarist Lithuania with his new life as a struggling sculptor in Jazz Age Paris. His last novel, Underground, was released in 2011. It was named as one of the Globe and Mail’s 100 Best Books of 2011. His latest book, The Barefoot Bingo Caller: A Memoir, has just been released. Of this book, award-winning author Miriam Toews proclaims that it “is evocative, unfailingly honest, wry and dead-on funny.”

For more information, please contact Ben Labovitch at 416.675.6622 x72012.