Creative Writing

The Rishma Dunlop Reading Series and the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies present: Meet the Presses: submitting, editing, and publishing creative work

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 & […]

Writer in Residence: A Reading by Karen Solie!

Thursday February 2nd, 2pm - 3pm 014 McLaughlin College (Junior Common Room)Hybrid Event The Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies and the Department of English are proud to host award-winning Canadian poet, Karen Solie, our 2022-2023 Writer-in-Residence, as she reads from new and selected work. A Q&A will follow. Karen Solie is the author […]

Department of English presents CODY CAETANO -- January 25, 2023

CODY CAETANO is a writer, off-reserve member of Pinaymootang First Nation, and an Associate Literary Agent at CookeMcDermid. His debut memoir, Half-Bads in White Regalia, came out through Penguin Canada’s Hamish Hamilton imprint and was an instant national bestseller. Excerpts of Half-Bads in White Regalia received the 2020 Indigenous Voices Award for Best Unpublished Prose. […]

The Rishma Dunlop Reading Series presents "Winter York Faculty Reading"

Tuesday, January 17, 2023, 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm014 Mclaughlin College, Junior Common RoomIn-Person/Hybrid Allan Weiss has published three story cycles: Living Room (2001), Making the Rounds (2016), and most recently Telescope (2019). He has published other stories, both realist and fantastic, in various anthologies and periodicals, including Wascana Review and the Tesseracts anthology series. Andy […]

The Rishma Dunlop Reading Series presents Emma Healey

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 19, 2022: 2:30PM – 4:00PM 305 FOUNDERS COLLEGE, SENIOR COMMON ROOM IN-PERSON/HYBRID Emma Healey's most recent book is Best Young Woman Job Book: A Memoir, which was published by Random House Canada this past March. Her essays, criticism and poems have been published in a lot of places, most recently Vulture magazine and n+1.  Join […]

Department of English presents ZALIKA REID-BENTA -- January 25, 2023

ZALIKA REID-BENTA is a Toronto-based writer. Her debut short story collection Frying Plantain won the 23rd annual Danuta Gleed Literary Award, recognizing the best first collection of short fiction by a Canadian author published in 2019 in the English language. Frying Plantain also won the 2020 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize in literary fiction, was shortlisted […]

Creative writing undergrad student sells debut novel

Matteo L. Cerilli, a York undergraduate student pursuing a BA honours with a double major in creative writing and professional writing from the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, recently sold his debut novel Lockjaw. The novel is a multiple-perspective young adult horror novel corresponding to Stephen King’s IT and the hit television show […]

York University undergraduate students were recognized for their work in poetry, short fiction, and screenwriting at the annual Creative Writing Program Awards ceremony

The online ceremony held on May 24 honoured the 2021-2022 winning submissions. The event was organized by David Goldstein, creative writing program coordinator and associate professor of English, with support from staff members Kimberly Wilson, Rose Crawford and Marijana Gmitrovic.  “The awards ceremony is one of the highlights of our year in creative writing. Having the opportunity to honour students from […]

The Victorian Studies Network at York presents "New Paths in Victorian Studies"

Friday, October 21, 2022: 10:00 am – 3:00 pmMcLaughlin Junior Common Room, 014 McLaughlin College Lunch and refreshments may be served (depending on COVID protocols).To RSVP, please contact Prof. Lesley Higgins. All are welcome. Graduate students and faculty from all departments are invited to attend. The cross-disciplinary scope of the program—including Victorian children’s literature, music, […]

The Department of English presents JOHN EDWARDS - The Musicians In Ordinary - OCT. 4, 2022

Tuesday, October 4th, 2022 1:00pm to 2:30pm 305 FC Lutenist John Edwards leads The Musicians In Ordinary which explores the repertoire of the Renaissance and Baroque. In the theatre he has played for the Canadian Opera Company, Thousand Islands Theatre and Arbor Oak Trio, has been music director for productions of Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth […]