The Jack McClelland Writer-in-Residence
The Writer-In-Residence Non-Credit Creative Writing Seminar
 | John Gordon "Jack" McClelland (1922 - 2004) |
 About Sachiko Murakami With her first book of poetry, The Invisibility Exhibit (2008), shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award and the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, Murakami entered the Canadian poetry scene as a writer whose central preoccupation is with space. Her second poetry book, Rebuild (2011), registers her various affective responses to the city of Vancouver, a city of cranes and excavation sites, a living archive of properties expropriated (like that of her father’s), taken away from its Native inhabitants, sold and resold, rebuilt. Admired for her creative innovation and collaborative spirit, she is the creator of Project Rebuild (http://www.projectrebuild.ca/index.php), a site that materializes Murakami’s line, “What is a poem but a rental unit of language?” Already inhabited by visual variations of what has come to be known as “The Vancouver Special,” a particular house style, the project invites anyone “to move into any of the poems . . . and renovate them.” Her most recent collection, Get Me Out of Here (2015), recasts Murakami’s spatial imagination by focusing on the airport as a network hub. From YVR (Vancouver) to RKV (Reykjavik), people in transit contributed their impressions of things or events, an experiment in crowd-sourcing that Murakami has turned into fourteen-line poems. A literary worker for numerous presses and journals, she has also dabbled in administration, marketing, and communications for organizations, including the Association of Book Publishers of BC, BookNet Canada and the Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Toronto. A collective member of the Kootenay School of Writing in Vancouver for a short period, she co-founded The Pilot reading series in Montreal in 2005, and was co-host of Pivot Readings at the Press Club in Toronto from 2010-2012. She is a resident of Toronto. Office hours will be held from 2:00-4:00 p.m. on Wednesdays at House V, Room 6, Massey College, beginning the week of Jan. 16th.
| Jack McClelland Writers-in-Residence 2016-17 Sachiko Murakami 2009-10 Michael Redhill 2008-09 Christopher Dewdney 2007-08 David Gilmour 2006-07 Don McKay 2005-06 Camilla Gibb 2004-05 George Fetherling 2003-04 Steven Heighton 2002-03 Albert F. Moritz 2001-02 Kildare Dobbs 2000-01 Austin Clarke 1999-00 Erin Mouré 1998-99 Sarah Ellis 1997-98 Roo Borson 1996-97 Jane Urquhart 1995-96 Tom Wayman 1994-95 Susan Musgrave 1993-94 Tomson Highway Spring 1993 Audrey Thomas 1991-92 Judith Merril 1990-91 Patrick Lane 1989-90 Lorna Crozier 1988-89 Erika Ritter 1987-88 Al Purdy 1986-87 Gwendolyn MacEwen 1985-86 Mary di Michele 1984-85 Leon Rooke 1983-84 Mavis Gallant Spring 1983 Dorothy Livesay Fall 1982 Brian Moore 1981-82 Irving Layton 1980-81 Marian Engel 1979-80 Timothy Findley 1978-79 Dennis Lee 1977-78 Carol Bolt 1976-77 John Newlove 1975-76 Adele Wiseman 1974-75 Fletcher Markle 1973-74 W.O. Mitchell 1972-73 Margaret Atwood Spring 1971 Josef Škvorecký Fall 1970 R.D.C. Finch 1969-70 Margaret Laurence 1968-69 Jack Ludwig 1965-68 Earle Birney |
