The Jack McClelland Writer-in-Residence
 | John Gordon "Jack" McClelland (1922 - 2004) |
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Souvankham Thammavongsa is the author of four poetry books and the short story collection How to Pronounce Knife, winner of the 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize and the 2021 Trillium Book Award, finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and PEN/America Open Book Award, out now with McClelland & Stewart (Canada), Little, Brown (U.S.), and Bloomsbury (U.K.). Her stories have won an O. Henry Award and appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper's Magazine, The Paris Review, and Granta. She was a 2021 Griffin Poetry Prize jury member and editor of its anthology in that year, and has reviewed books for The New York Times Book Review. She is currently at work on her first novel. Ms. Thammavongsa will offer a non-credit poetry and short-fiction workshop in the "S" term on Wednesdays, 6-8 pm. The workshop’s delivery method will be online synchronous. If you're interested in taking this workshop, please submit directly to me (mailto:smaro.kamboureli@utoronto.ca) six poems totalling 10 pages in MS Word or PDF format via your @utoronto.ca email address. No cover letter or CV is necessary. ___________________________________________ | Jack McClelland Writers-in-Residence 2020-21 Karen Solie 2019-20 Susan Swan 2018-19 André Alexis 2017-18 Garry Thomas Morse 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 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 |
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