HIJ House Reading Series returns on Sunday April 19th and you are all invited to join us for readings and pie.

Join us for HIJ #13-lucky #13!-featuring readings by 3 amazing writers: Brecken Hancock, Grace O'Connell and Jacob Wren. Come spend your Sunday afternoon with us and enjoy wonderful readings, celebrate the launch of three tiny new chapbooks, and stick around for lots of homemade pie. All are welcome.

Here are the deets:

When: Sunday April 19

Where: Chez Millar, 260 Ryding Avenue, Toronto, ON

Time: 2:00-5:00 pm

Free. Donations for the authors are welcome.

HIJ chapbooks will be available for sale during the event.

Author bios:

Brecken Hancock's poetry, essays, interviews, and reviews have been published in Best American Experimental Writing, Papirmass, Lemon Hound, The Globe & Mail, Hazlitt, and on the site Canadian Women in the Literary Arts. Her first book of poems, Broom Broom Coach House, 2014, was named by The Globe & Mail's Jared Bland as a debut of the year and appeared on a number of year-end best-book lists, including the National Post, All Lit Up, and BookThug's Best Reads. She lives in Ottawa.

Grace O'Connell is the author of Magnified World, a national bestseller and a Random House New Face of Fiction title. She writes a books column for This Magazine and her work has appeared in various publications and anthologies including The Walrus, The Journey Prize Stories, the Globe and Mail, and Taddle Creek. Grace was the recipient of the 2014 Canadian Authors Association Emerging Writer Award and teaches short fiction at the University of Toronto.

Jacob Wren creates literature, performances and exhibitions. His books include Unrehearsed Beauty 1998, Families Are Formed Through Copulation 2007, Revenge Fantasies of the Politically Dispossessed 2010 and Polyamorous Love Song, which was named a Top 100 Book of 2014 by the Globe and Mail. As co-artistic director of Montreal-based interdisciplinary group PME-ART, he co-created the performances En franais comme en anglais, its easy to criticize 1998, and the HOSPITALIT / HOSPITALITY series including Individualism Was a Mistake 2008, The DJ Who Gave Too Much Information 2011, and Every Song Ive Ever Written 2013. International collaborations include a stage adaptation of the 1954 Wolfgang Koeppen novel Der Tod in Rom Sophiensaele, Berlin, 2007; An Anthology of Optimism co-created with Pieter De Buysser / Campo, Ghent, 2008; Big Brother Where Art Thou? a project entirely on Facebook, co-created with Lene Berg / OFFTA / PME-ART, 2011; and, No Double Life For The Wicked co-created with Tori Kudo / The Museum of Art, Kochi, Japan, 2012. Wren travels internationally with alarming frequency and frequently writes about contemporary art.

You will find us at 260 Ryding Avenue, which is located 1 block south of St. Clair Avenue West & 1/2 block east off of Runnymede Road, directly across from the big park.

Coming by TTC?: You can either go to Runnymede Station and catch a bus heading north from the station. Get off at St. Clair Avenue West and walk back 1/2 block to Ryding Avenue landmark: Goodwill store on the corner. Walk east 1/2 block until you come to our house at #260. Or, take St. Clair Avenue streetcar to the end of the line which will let you off at the loop in front of the new Stockyards shopping plaza. Cross to the south side and walk west along St. Clair, for about 5-7 minutes, until you come to Cobalt Avenue landmark is Barraida Portuguese Restaurant. Turn left onto Cobalt, walk 1 short block to Ryding Ave, turn right and walk until you find us at #260. Either way, when you arrive just come on in, grab a chair, or cushion, and settle in.