Noir at the Bar

Let us delight you with tales of the dark and damned. Listen to stories of crime, horror, and dark fantasy. Or dare to share your own.
About this Event

The Noir is back in the Bar!
Join us at the Thomson Social Hub (aka Thomson Kitchen & Bar), curl up with your favourite tipple, and feel the chill down your spine with tales of the dark, damned, and disturbed. Delight in the doomed with readings in genres crime, horror, dark fantasy, and everything in between.

No specific guardrails for content, but please, be cool. Read and listen responsibly.
Drinks will be available for purchase at the bar.
Many Prizes! Including, but not limited to, the following categories:

1. Most disturbing
2. Reader most likely to commit an actual crime
3. Shortest reading!
4. Did not understand the assignment
5. Actually noir!!!
6. Best over all (determined by audience)

If you want to read, an email will be sent to registrants for futher information closer to the date. Limited to 13 readers. Five (5) minute MAXIMUM reading time.

This free event is presented as part of When Worlds Collide, Canada's largest multi-genre writer and reader festival, which runs from August 14-16, 2026. To join the full weekend of literary fun, check out the festival here: WHEN WORDS COLLIDE - When Words Collide.