The music of the Blackfriars' Theatre 27 March 2023 11:30am - 12:30pm Room VC 104 The King’s Men’s use of the more exclusive Blackfriars’ Theatre (where admission prices were up to a whopping 2 shillings!) meant that a more discerning audience was going to demand more sophisticated and ‘court’-eous entertainment that the bloody heads and […]
Miriam will read from her work and then speak with Karen about "writing, reading, fighting and talking." The event will conclude with an audience Q&A and book signing, and is open to members of the York community and beyond. Learn More Date: April 17, 2023Venue: 2nd Floor, Second Student CentreReception: 7:00 – 7:30 pmLecture: 7:30 […]
This month poet, essayist, novelist and Department of English and Humanities Associate Professor B.W. Powe released his latest book, Ladders Made of Water. Powe’s new work is a collection featuring poems, mini-essays, stories, parables, meditations on contemporary cinema and unfinished rock opera lyrics. Blending essaying and poetry, Powe says Ladders Made of Water was writing in an impressionistic, […]
On February 6, the Department of English honoured award recipients at the annual English Achievements & Awards Reception. The program offers a number of awards each year, including prizes and scholarships that recognize the achievements of majors and minors in English and Creative Writing. Several awards were established to honour former faculty members; one honours […]
The Department of English invites you to a book launch: Telescope by Allan Weiss March 2, 2023, 3:30-5:00 pm 305 Founders College *Light refreshments will be served. All are welcome! Registration is not required. Telescope is a short story cycle about Lawrence Teitel, the protagonist of Weiss's earlier collection, Living Room. Here, we follow Lawrence […]
Date: Tuesday February 28th 1:00 – 2:30 pm Julie Joosten’s first book, Light Light, was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry, the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, and the Goldie Award. Her second collection, Nought, was published in 2020 with Book*hug press, and was a finalist for the Nelson Ball Prize. She […]
Date: Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2:30 - 3:30 p.m.Location: McLaughlin Junior Common Room (014 McLaughlin) Do you want to publish your writing? Are you interested in a career in publishing? Join an afternoon conversation with the talented people at the heart of three of Canada's most vibrant publishing programs. Canisia Lubrin, poetry editor for McClelland & […]
The Department of English is proud to welcome award-winning Canadian poet, Karen Solie, as our first ever Writer-in-Residence. Between January 7 and April 30, 2023, Karen will be available for manuscript consultations with York students, faculty and staff who are working on prose and poetry projects. She will also be holding a reading at the end […]
A fourth-year PhD candidate studying English Literature in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) has published her debut novel he called me kid on Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing. Tita Kyrtsakas wrote the novel when she was 23. The story revolves around Clementine, an aspiring writer in her final year of high school […]
At York, in addition to her focus on literary theory, discourse analysis, and modernism/postmodernism, she contributed to the graduate programs in English, Humanities, and Social and Political Thought. From 2011-14, and again in 2015-16, she served as the director of the Graduate Program in English and worked vigorously on behalf of the Faculty of Graduate […]