Friday, October 27, 2023: 10:00 am – 3:00 pm305 Founders College Lunch and refreshments will be served.To RSVP, please contact Prof. Lesley Higgins at 19higgins55@gmail.com. All are welcome. Faculty and graduate students from all departments are invited to attend. The cross-disciplinary scope of the program is especially inviting. For 15 years, the Victorian Studies Network […]
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 […]
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 […]
"It's like no self. No I. Non-existence": Friendship and Family in Contemporary Fiction Keynote address by Prof. Doris Hambuch Friday, March 18, 2022, at 10:00 am EST*For the link and schedule, please contact Marie-Christine Leps at mcleps@yorku.ca. Doris Hambuch is Associate Professor of Literature and Film Studies at United Arab Emirates University, and President of […]
Applications now open for University-wide creative writing contests 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the Daniel Whittaker-Van Dusen Prize for Emerging Poets, and the Richard Teleky Short Fiction Prize are accepting unpublished and original writing submissions.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 Marsden Prize are open to […]
“More Than Scraps: Why we need to talk about enslavement and food” Join James Beard award winning culinary historian Michael W. Twitty for a timely discussion on food, power, race relations, and the usefulness and limitations of history. Michael W. Twitty is a living history interpreter, culinary historian, and food writer personally charged with teaching, […]
"The Evolution of Remains" Thursday, October 21st @ 4:00-5:30pm **Please email James Papoutsis for Zoom link — james.papoutsis@gmail.com** Brad Fraser is a writer, director and host who has been working for over forty years in theatre, film, television and print media. He is the winner of multiple awards and his plays have been produced worldwide. […]
Douglas Adams meets David Lynch in this witty yet horror-tinged fable about one of North America's scariest inventions--the local mall. After writing a letter in praise of "malls," our eccentric narrator is offered a "residency" at a shabby suburban shopping centre. His mission: to occupy the mall for several weeks, splitting his time between "making […]
Matthew Walsh graduated with a B.A. in English and Creative Writing from York in 2013 before going on to complete an M.F.A. at the University of British Columbia. Matthew grew up in rural Nova Scotia and is now living in Toronto. Matthew’s poetry has appeared in The Malahat Review and Arc, among other publications. Matthew […]
Yusuf Saadi's first collection is Pluviophile (Nightwood Editions 2020). He graduated from York's creative writing program in 2013, and won the 2016 Vallum Chapbook Award and The Malahat Reviews 2016 Far Horizons Award for Poetry. At other times, his writing has appeared in journals/anthologies including Best Canadian Poetry 2019, The Malahat Review, Vallum, Brick, Best […]