Susan Swan is a novelist, teacher, activist and journalist whose impact on the Canadian literary and political scene has been far reaching. Her critically acclaimed fiction has been published in twenty countries. The Dead Celebrities Club, her eighth book of fiction which appeared last spring, was described in The Globe and Mail as "a tale of greed, hubris and fraud...a financial fable worthy of the age." Swan's 2012 novel, The Western Light, was a prequel to The Wives of Bath, her international bestseller made into the feature film Lost and Delirious. Her 2004 novel What Casanova Told Me was a finalist for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. Her first novel, The Biggest Modern Woman of the World, about a Canadian giantess who exhibited with P.T. Barnum, is currently being made into a television series. Swan is a retired Humanities professor from York University. She was York's Robarts Scholar for Canadian Studies in 1999-2000. As chair of The Writers' Union of Canada in 2008, she brought in a new-benefits deal for writers.

Susan Swan will offer a creative writing workshop on fiction and memoir writing, January to April 2020.

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The 2020 Jack McClelland Writer-in-Residence workshop, offered by Susan Swan, will take place in the "S" term on Wednesdays, 4:30-6:30 pm, at Massey College.

The workshop is by application and open to everyone who is currently part of the University of Toronto three-campus community- faculty, students, and staff.

If you're interested in taking this workshop, please submit to me a three-page (double-spaced) sample of writing (fiction or memoir) in digital format (MS Word or PDF) via a .utoronto email address to smaro.kamboureli@utoronto.ca. No cover letter, CV, or note is necessary.

NB: Attachments should be saved under the applicant's and the program's names (e.g., Smaro_JackMcClelland_Sample_2019) and the submission email should include the following subject heading: "Jack McClelland Writer-in-Residence 2020 Seminar."

The deadline for submissions is Friday, November 29th.

The screening will be done by the writer-in-residence, and results will be announced by the middle of December.

2019-20            Susan Swan

2018-19            André Alexis

2017-18            Garry Thomas Morse 

2016-17            Sachiko Murakami
2015-16            Rawi Hage
2014-15            Shani Mootoo
2013-14            David Bezmozgis
2012-13            Joy Kogawa
2011-12            Michael Winter
2010-11            Barbara Gowdy

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 Engel1

979-80              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