Creative Writing News

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the Daniel Whittaker-Van Dusen Prize for Emerging Poets and the Richard Teleky Short Fiction Prize are accepting unpublished and original writing submissions.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 the Lorna Marsden Prize are open to all full or part time York University undergraduate students. The Daniel Whittaker-Van Dusen and […]

Fall 2024 Writer-in-Residence Introduction Reading: Sadiqa de Meijer

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 […]

Meet our Winter 2024 Writer-In-Residence: Emma Healey

Emma Healey is a writer from Toronto. Her most recent book, Best Young Woman Job Book: A Memoir, was published by Random House Canada in 2022. It was named a best book of the year by the Globe and Mail and Wired Magazine as well as CBC Radio’s Q. It was also shortlisted for the […]

Fall Writer-in-Residence Reading: Shyam Selvadurai

Date: Wednesday September 13, 2023Time: 1:30pmLocation: McLaughlin College, 014 Shyam will read from his new novel, Mansions of the Moon, and will also be available for questions from the audience about his work and his residency. Shyam Selvadurai Shyam Selvadurai is the author of Funny Boy, Cinnamon Gardens, Swimming in the Monsoon Sea, a novel for young adults, and The […]

Wendy McGrath wins the inaugural Prairie Grindstone Prize

Wendy McGrath is a poet, writer, and visual artist living in amiskwacîwâskahikan (Edmonton) on Treaty 6 Territory. McGrath’s writing practice embraces multiple genres—fiction, poetry, spoken word, and creative non-fiction. McGrath describes her writing as “Prairie Gothic” and gives voice to working class stories. McGrath holds a Master’s Degree in English from York University and a Bachelor […]

Professor Patricia Keeney celebrates bilingual volume of poetry

Patricia Keeney, a long-time professor of creative writing at York University, has had her fourth bilingual volume of poetry published in France. The author of 10 books of poetry in English, this is Keeney’s eighth volume in another language. Keeney has also taught English and humanities at York for some 40 years. Selected and translated by […]

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 […]

Bruce Powe – 2021 MEA Marshall McLuhan Book Award

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.

York alumna among prestigious Windham-Campbell Prize winners

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 […]