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Call for submissions: Creative writing prizes and awards

ƽ��岻�� — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 16:47:48 +0000

The Department of English invites undergraduates and graduate students to submit applications for creative writing prizes and awards. Whether you're penning captivating narratives or crafting poignant poetry, this is your chance to showcase your talent and creativity. Before you begin, make sure to carefully consult the application instructions provided below.

English Alums profiled for ƽ��岻�� news articles

ƽ��岻�� — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 17:42:56 +0000

The ƽ��岻�� Reporter profiled recent grad Mai Kutsuna (BASc’23). Mai, who majored in both drama and theatre and chemistry through the interfaculty Bachelor of Arts and Science program, spoke of the opportunity to combine her unique interests.

Paid summer internships for English undergraduates

ƽ��岻�� — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 20:41:13 +0000

Undergraduate students in the Faculty of Arts are invited to apply for paid summer internships through the Arts Internship Office (AIO). This year, three internships are directly associated with initiatives run (in whole or in part) through the Department of English.

Alum Anuja Varghese highlighted in ƽ��岻�� News article

ƽ��岻�� — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 12:43:42 +0000

Anuja Varghese (BA’05) is an award-winning author whose first book, Chrysalis, has been awarded the Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers from the Writers’ Trust of Canada and the Governor General’s Literary Award for fiction. Varghese was recently profiled by ƽ��岻�� News, where she spoke about her experience studying literature and its wide-ranging impact on both her writing and professional career.

Montreal International Poetry Prize opens for submissions

ƽ��岻�� — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 21:15:06 +0000

The Montreal International Poetry Prize 2024 is open for submissions! Send us your best poems for a chance to be published in The Montreal Poetry Prize Anthology 2024. One lucky winner will also take home the cash prize of $20,000.

Call for applications: Creative writing workshop

ƽ��岻�� — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 17:18:13 +0000

Our 2023-2024 Richler Writer-in-Residence Heather O’Neill has generously offered to offer a two-part creative writing workshop this semester.

Here is Heather’s description; a short biography is included below.

“We will workshop one another’s submitted writing. We will also do some delightful writing exercises to tap into each of the students’ creative and unique worlds. As well, each of the students will be offered a one-on-one consultation about their submitted work, or just to ask me whatever they find mysterious about the writing/publishing practice.”

Caret call for submissions

ƽ��岻�� — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 13:47:59 +0000

The English Department’s Graduate Student Journal, Caret, is accepting submissions for our Winter 2024 issue from now until January 26th, 2024.

Prof. Manshel interviewed for WNYC's 'On the Media'

ƽ��岻�� — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 15:57:31 +0000

Last month, Prof. Alexander Manshel was interviewed for WNYC's On the Media with Brooke Gladstone. They discuss Prof. Manshel's new book and his other recent research on the politics of race when it comes to literary prizes.

Listen now!

From On the Media:

Prof. Stenbaek awarded honourary doctorate from the University of Greenland

ƽ��岻�� — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 20:44:15 +0000

The Department of English congratulates Professor Marianne Stenbaek who has been awarded the prestigious title of honourary doctorate from Ilisimatusarfik (University of Greenland) in recognition of her research on and with the Inuit. The honour is given to individuals who have made "comprehensive and meaningful" contributions to research and research education at Ilisimatusarfik and who have "worked for the development of society in a considerable number of years." Below is an excerpt from the award ceremony, attended by Prof. Stenbaek on September 29:

"Sita and Helen" on CBC Radio One

ƽ��岻�� — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 15:00:12 +0000

MA student Shailee Rajak joins CBC Radio One's "All in a Weekend" this Sunday, September 24th, to discuss her recently published children's book Sita and Helen. Shailee and host Sonali Karnick will be talking about the book, its intercultural value, its foregrounding of a feminist perspective, and the importance of having it read by children of all backgrounds.

Kasia Van Schaik's "We Have Never Lived On Earth" longlisted for the 2023 Giller Prize

ƽ��岻�� — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 18:44:16 +0000

Recent PhD alumnus Kasia Van Schaik's debut story collection, We Have Never Lived On Earth, has been longlisted for one of Canada's most prestigious literary awards, the Scotiabank Giller Prize.

2022-2023 Student Awards and Prizes

ƽ��岻�� — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 17:30:32 +0000

The Department of English is proud to recognize the following students who have been selected for the awards and scholarships listed below for the 2022-2023 academic year.

(The writing prizes are determined by committees made up of professors in the Department of English, who review submissions with the authors’ names removed.)

Catherine Bradley was awarded the H. Noel Fieldhouse Award for Distinguished Teaching!

ƽ��岻�� — Wed, 31 May 2023 15:16:05 +0000

Catherine Bradley - Head of Wardrobe, costume designer, researcher, and teacher in the Department of English - was awarded the H. Noel Fieldhouse Award for Distinguished Teaching!

Poetry Matters Featured in ƽ��岻��'s Arts News

ƽ��岻�� — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 15:13:04 +0000

To mark World Poetry Month, the Arts News team spoke to Professor Miranda Hickman (Department of English) and students Anushree Joshi (MA, English), James Jarrett (U3, English and Music) and recent alum Jana Perkins (MA, English) about the importance of poetry and how research and community initiatives such as Poetry Matters are building spaces for poetic discussions both on and beyond ƽ��岻��'s campus.

The Department of English Welcomes Visiting Scholar Deanna Reder

ƽ��岻�� — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 20:02:41 +0000

Cree-Métis scholar Dr. Deanna Reder did not study Indigenous literatures as an undergraduate. At the time such courses did not exist at her university. Propelled by this lack, she began to read outside of the conventional canon, with a keen eye on texts written by Cree or Métis authors. By the time she began her doctoral work in 2001, the field began to shift and a generation of 21^st Century Indigenous writers began to be published.

Listen to Prof. Manshel on the podcast "On the Media"

ƽ��岻�� — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 21:28:22 +0000

Listen to Professor Alexander Manshel, author of the forthcoming book Writing Backwards: Historical Fiction and the Reshaping of the American Canon, in the podcast On the Media. Manshel speaks of the ressurgence of historical novels and their focus on disregarded histories in the segment "How Historical Novels Can Help Us Remember".

Listen here!

Thinking About Honours?

ƽ��岻�� — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 15:24:42 +0000

Come to a Zoom information session about the Honours Program in English

Find out:

Congratulations to Professors Nathalie Cooke, Fiona Ritchie and Tabitha Sparks!

ƽ��岻�� — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 20:06:36 +0000

Professors Fiona Ritchie and Tabitha Sparks have both published new books!

Fiona Ritchie, Shakespeare in the Theatre: Sarah Siddons and John Philip Kemble. Bloomsbury.
Tabitha Sparks, Victorian Metafiction, University of Virginia Press.

Apply to the Reynolds Workshop 2022-23

ƽ��岻�� — Sat, 26 Nov 2022 20:52:06 +0000

Arte Video Povera and DIY Self-Portraiture: How to tell stories through images without professional equipment

Congratulations to Professor Fiona Ritchie on her fellowships!

ƽ��岻�� — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 14:23:09 +0000

Professor Fiona Ritchie has been awarded a short-term Visiting Fellowship at Jesus College, University of Oxford, which she will take up in Winter 2023 during her sabbatic leave. While in Oxford, Professor Ritchie will conduct archival research for her research project on women and regional theatre in Britain in the long eighteenth century.

Congratulations!

Professor Robert Lecker has been awarded the prestigious Lorne Pierce Medal

ƽ��岻�� — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 17:37:04 +0000

Congratulations to Professor Lecker!

Professor Robert Lecker has been awarded the prestigious Lorne Pierce Medal, a biennial prize recognizing achievement in critical or imaginative literature from the Royal Society of Canada.

The citation reads as follows:

2021-2022 Student Awards and Prizes

ƽ��岻�� — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 16:09:11 +0000

The Department of English is proud to recognize the following students who have been selected for the awards and scholarships listed below for the 2021-2022 academic year.

(The writing prizes are determined by committees made up of professors in the Department of English, who review submissions with the authors’ names removed.)

Congratulations to Professor Ara Osterweil on her contributions to an award winning book!

ƽ��岻�� — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 15:32:48 +0000

Professor Ara Osterweil contributed to The Films of Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné, 1963-1965 (ed. John G. Hanhardt, Whitney Museum of Art), which was awarded the 2022 Kraszna-Krausz Moving Image Book Award!

Congratulations to Professor Allan Hepburn on his election to the Royal Society of Canada

ƽ��岻�� — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 15:23:52 +0000

From the Royal Society of Canada website:

“Allan Hepburn, an internationally renowned literary scholar, has published many books and articles on twentieth-century British, Irish, and American novels. Mid-century literature and culture are his particular expertise. His publications focus on convergences among espionage, human rights, citizenship, nuclear extinction, the Second World War, diplomacy, and fiction. He is a recognized authority on the novelist Elizabeth Bowen. He holds the James ƽ��岻�� Chair in Twentieth Century Literature at ƽ��岻��. “

Montreal International Poetry Prize Submission Deadline

ƽ��岻�� — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 17:06:23 +0000

The Montreal International Poetry Prize is committed to encouraging the creation of original works of poetry, to building international readership, and to exploring the world’s Englishes.

The Montreal Prize awards one prize of $20,000 CAD to a poet for a single poem of 40 or fewer lines. A jury of internationally reputed poets and critics selects a shortlist of approximately 50 poems, from which a judge chooses one winner.

This year's judge is the former poet laureate of Jamaica, Lorna Goodison.

2020-2021 Student Awards and Prizes

ƽ��岻�� — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 17:51:31 +0000

The Department of English is proud to recognize the following students who have been selected for the awards and scholarships listed below for the 2020-2021 academic year.

(The writing prizes are all determined by committees made up of professors in the Department of English, who review submissions with the authors’ names removed.)

Algy Smillie Noad Memorial Prize for a superior Honours thesis