Wednesday, November 8, 2023 1:00pm-2:30pm Vanier College, Room 119 Derek McCormack will speak to the AP/CWR 4610: Senior Prose Workshop about queer experimental fiction, art writing, fashion, and independent publishing. This talk will include a short reading by Derek but will mostly comprise a free-flowing Q&A. Derek McCormack is the author of twelve works of […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
Call for submissions: President's Prizes in Creative Writing Competition Get writing. The President’s Prizes in Creative Writing Competition are looking for original pieces in one or all of the following genres: poetry, short fiction, screenplay and stageplay. The contest is open to all full or part-time York University undergraduate students at the Keele and Glendon […]
Shyam Selvadurai in conversation with Larissa Lai and Janika Oza Wednesday, October 25 | 1:30 P.M.McLaughlin College 014 Shyam Selvadurai Author of Funny Boy, Cinnamon Gardens, Swimming in the Monsoon Sea, The Hungry Ghosts and Mansion of the Moon. Janika Oza Author of the national bestseller, A History of Burning. Larissa Lai Author of nine […]
Winners and Honourable Mentions 2020-2021 Winners Poetry - Maria Helena Rykov Short Fiction - Suhana Rampersad Screenplay - Abbie Henderson Stage Play - Sara Masciotra-Milstein Honourable Mentions Poetry - Michael Kayser Short Fiction - Daryl Bruce Screenplay - Ivy de Rege-Braga Screenplay - Taylor Levy
The music of the Blackfriars' Theatre 27 March 2023 11:30am - 12:30pm Room VC 104 The King’s Men’s use of the more exclusive Blackfriars’ Theatre (where admission prices were up to a whopping 2 shillings!) meant that a more discerning audience was going to demand more sophisticated and ‘court’-eous entertainment that the bloody heads and […]
7 March 2023 1:00pm - 2:00pm Room Vari Hall 1020 The spectacle of court masques was being translated for the public stage in the time of Shakespeare’s late plays, and a big part of that was the instruments, the dance, and the new heroic style of song which emphasized sort of ‘heightened declamation’, where composers […]
Wednesday, March 8 from 11:30-12:30pm Dr. Derek Beaulieu is the author of twenty-six books of poetry, conceptual fiction, critical writing, as well as over 200 chapbooks and 6 edited volumes. He is also Director of Literary Arts at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. Join us via Zoom for a reading and talk on […]