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 Excerpts from the book earned the 2020 Indigenous Voices Award for Best Unpublished Prose.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the Daniel Whittaker-Van Dusen Prize for Emerging Poets and the Richard Teleky Short Fiction Prize are accepting unpublished and original writing submissions.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 […]
Wednesday, July 10, 2024 11:30am-2:30pm SLH 107 Lutenist John Edwards is the Artistic Director of The Musicians In Ordinary, which explores the repertoire of the Renaissance and Baroque. John will give a lecture and demonstration, accompanied by singer Rachel Tomasic, on the Music of Shakespeare, to be performed on period instruments.
Tamara Faith Berger writes fiction and screenplays. She is the author of the novels Maidenhead (winner of The Believer Book Award), Little Cat, Kuntalini, Queen Solomon and most recently, Yara. She lives and works in Toronto. How close can a writer be to their reader? A discussion about language, voice and sexuality in literature, questioning […]
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 […]
Plus a conversation with Deepa Mehta & Shyam Selvadurai Date: December 7, 2023Format: in-person ONLYVenue: Sandra Faire and Ivan Fecan Theatre Reception at CIBC Lobby: 6:30 – 7:00 p.m.Main Event: Film Screening + Q&A: 7:00 – 9:20 p.m.