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 […]
Monday, July 25th, 2022 -- 2:30-3:30pm Jason Loo is a Toronto-based cartoonist and comic creator behind Toronto’s own pretty decent superhero comic series The Pitiful Human-Lizard. He is also the co-creator of the Eisner Award-winning digital comic series Afterlift with Chip Zdarsky for ComiXology Originals. His other notable works include The All-Nighter, Star Wars Adventures, Razorblades, […]
Monday September 19, 2022: 3:00pm – 4:30pm014 Mclaughlin College, Junior Common RoomIn-Person/Hybrid Kenzie Allen is a poet and multimodal artist, and a recent winner of the James Welch Prize for Indigenous Poets and a 92Y Discovery Prize. She is a descendant of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin. Martha Bátiz is the author of two short-story collections […]
A remote conversation with Bahar Orang, author of Where Things Touch, on staying attuned to the fragile intimacies of care beyond the stifling demands of institutional environments. Bahar Orang, author of Where ThingsTouch: A Meditation on Beauty (Book*hug,2020), is a writer and clinician scholar in theDepartment of Psychiatry at the Universityof Toronto. Monday, Feb. 28th […]
John Stone is the Serra Hunter fellow in English Literature at the Universitat de Barcelona (Spain). His current research centres on library formation and manuscript culture at the Royal Scots College, Valladolid, between 1770 and 1808. More broadly, in recent years he has worked on English as a language of culture in eighteenth- century Spain, […]
Prof. Bruce Powe won the Media Ecology Association's annual Marshall McLuhan Book Award for The Charge in the Global Membrane. Read more about Prof. Powe's accomplishment on the McLuhan Gallery's website.
Canadian poet and York University alumna Canisia Lubrin was named one of two winners of the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize in poetry. In addition to a citation and award, winners of the prizes receive an unrestricted grant of US$165,000 to support their writing. Lubrin’s first collection of poetry, Voodoo Hypothesis, was nominated for the Gerald Lampert award, the Pat Lowther award and was a […]
Lorna Marsden Award - Dianna Eve Amiscaray - Winner/ Sara Youssef - Honourable Mention Babs Burggraf Award - Marlee John bp Nichol Award - Laura Bourbonnais Judith Eve Gewurtz Award - Ivy de Rege-Braga Sorbara Award - Michael Kayser - Winner/ Rachel Kearney - Honourable Mention/ Moboluwajidide Joseph - Honourable Mention Stanely Fefferman Prize - […]
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2022: 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM ONLINE VIA ZOOM Chantal Neveu is a francophone writer from Québec. She is the author of six books of poetry, including you, La vie radieuse, coït, and mentale (La Peuplade). Her books translated into English, all published by Book*hug Press, include This Radiant Life by Erín Moure, […]
8 June 2023 via Zoom 2:30pm-3:30pm Patricia Park is the novelist of Re Jane, a modern-day reworking of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre with a Korean-American Jane, and the new YA novel, Imposter Syndrome & Other Confessions of Alejandra Kim. She’s a tenured professor of creative writing at American University. She’s written for the New Yorker, […]