Call for Submissions: University-wide Creative Writing Competition open to all YorkU students. Apply now! The annual President’s Creative Writing Awards, the Lorna Marsden Prize for Creative Writing in French, the Daniel Whittaker-Van Dusen Prize for Emerging Poets and the Richard Teleky Short Fiction Prize are accepting unpublished and original writing submissions. The President’s Awards and […]
Canisia Lubrin, a graduate from York’s Creative Writing program, was awarded the 2025 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction on May 1 for her debut work of fiction CODE NOIR. The prize, which includes $150,000 USD in addition to support through mentorship, scholarship and residency opportunities, aims to address gender inequality in the literary world by […]
Canisia Lubrin, a graduate from York’s Creative Writing program, was awarded the 2025 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction on May 1 for her debut work of fiction CODE NOIR. The prize, which includes $150,000 USD in addition to support through mentorship, scholarship and residency opportunities, aims to address gender inequality in the literary world by […]
During the recent Creative Writing Awards, hosted by the Department of English, students were recognized for their outstanding work in a range creative writing forms, including poetry, short fiction, screenplay and stageplay. The award ceremony celebrated award-winning students from the past two years, with a total of 28 awards presented at the event. Read the […]
Yaniya Lee is the author of Selected Writing on Black Canadian Art (2024, figure ground/Art Metropole) and Buseje Bailey: Reasons Why We Have to Disappear Every Once in a While, A Black Art History Project (2024, Artexte). Join Tiana Reid’s class, “Hauntings: Late 20th Century Black Poetics in the United States and Canada,” for a […]
Cody Caetano is a writer and literary agent at CookeMcDermid. He is an off-reserve member of Pinaymootang First Nation. His memoir, Half-Bads in White Regalia, won the 2023 Indigenous Voices Award for Best Published Prose. Excerpts from the book earned the 2020 Indigenous Voices Award for Best Unpublished Prose. He lives in Toronto. Join Cody […]
Edited by Ashley Goodfellow Craig York University student Matteo Cerilli knew immediately what he wanted to do when he saw the list of DARE (Dean's Award for Research Excellence) research projects. Drawn to a project led by Assistant Professor Tom Hooper, in the Department of Equity Studies, investigating protests that followed the 1981 Toronto bathhouse […]
The annual President’s Creative Writing Awards, the Lorna Marsden Prize for Creative Writing in French, the Daniel Whittaker-Van Dusen Prize for Emerging Poets and the Richard Teleky Short Fiction Prize are accepting unpublished and original writing submissions. The President’s Awards and the Lorna Marsden Prize are open to all full or part time York University undergraduate students. The Daniel Whittaker-Van Dusen and […]
Date: Wednesday, September 25, 2024, at 1 p.m.Type: Hybrid Event Venue: McLaughlin College, 014 Sadiqa will read from her novel, 'alfabet/alphabet’ and will also be available for questions from the audience about her work and her residency. Sadiqa de Meijer Sadiqa de Meijer's books include Leaving Howe Island (Governor General's Award Finalist 2014), The Outer Wards (Raymond Souster Award […]
Tuesday, July 23, 2024 1:00pm - 2:00pm Please email Course Director James Papoutsis for Zoom link at james.papoutsis@gmail.com Edward Y. C. Lee was born in Montreal. He is a former arbitrator and lawyer. His fiction and creative non-fiction have been published in the Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, and in various literary magazines. His […]