The Creative Writing Program’s annual reading series offers students the opportunity to encounter exciting local and international writers working in a wide variety of genres, as well as editors, publishers and other professionals in the writing world. The series also invites creative writing graduates to read from their newly published work, and features a yearly faculty reading and conversation about how writing happens in the lives of published authors and students alike.
Upcoming Events
Literary Agents: A Q&A with Martha Magor-Webb
Jan 27, 2021 | 2:30 PM America/Toronto
A conversation with Martha Magor-Webb, a co-owner of CookeMcDermid Literary Agency, about the role of agents in literary publishing.
Literary Agents: A Q&A with Souvankham Thammavongsa
Feb 9, 2021 | 1:00 PM America/Toronto
Souvankham Thammavongsa is the author of four poetry books and the short story collectionHow to Pronounce Knife, winner of the 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize, a New York Times Editors' Choice, and a Time 100 Must-Read Books of 2020. Her stories have won an O. Henry and appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, The Paris Review, The Atlantic, NOON, and other places.
Past events
Steven Heighton
October 27, 2020
Danny Ramadan
October 27, 2020
Yusuf Saadi
November 17, 2020
Sara Peters
Naben Ruthnum
Phoebe Wang
Zalika Reid-Benta
Alicia Elliott
Susannah M. Smith
Shazia Hafiz Ramji
Pasha Malla
Adam Sol
Camilla Gibb
Canisia Lubrin
Ray Robertson
Michael Redhill
Marianne Apostolides
Karen Solie
Ann Eriksson
Liz Howard
Elio Iannacci
Derek Beaulieu
Penn Kemp
Aisha Sasha John
Alison Pick
Kilby Smith-McGregor
Chad Campbell
Michael Redhill
Joseph Boyden
Kamal Al-Solaylee
Will Kemp
Marianne Apostolides
d'bi.young anitafrika
Iris Turcott
Anusree Roy
Joseph Pierre
Dave Bidini
Aleksandar Hemon
Ann Shin
Meaghan Strimas
Leigh Kotsilidis
Samantha Bernstein
John Barton
Christopher Doda
Ray Robertson
Ken Babstock
Miriam Toews
Jen Bervin
Barry Callaghan
C.R. Avery
Lorna Crozier
Barry Dempster
Leigh Nash
Andrew Faulkner
Daniel Scott Tysdal
Gary Geddes
Molly Peacock
Lesley Wheeler