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Dr. Brittany Luby has won the 2022 Ruth & Sylvia Schwartz Children's Picture Book Award for Mii maanda ezhi-gkendmaanh/This is How I Know. 

Professor Sally Hickson has accepted the position of Director of the School of English & Theatre Studies starting June 1, 2022. The appointment reflects the surprising possibilities of cross-disciplinary collaboration and welcoming collegiality here in the College of Arts.

An art historian with expertise in Italian Renaissance and Baroque art and architecture, Professor Hickson is an expert at reading the room! She comes to the position with years of experience as the Director of the School of Fine Art & Music. She comes, as well, with abundant good will and a thriving curiosity about the exciting research, performance, writing, improvising, stage managing, lighting, directing, reading, and imagining of faculty colleagues, of staff, and of students in the School.

Congratulations to this year's winners of the annual Faculty & Sessional Teaching Excellence Awards!

From the global pandemic to activist protests such as #BLM, climate change, workers rights, and the uncovering of unmarked graves at former residential schools across Canada, the events of the past 18+ months have shown an urgent need and desire for new modes of life.

We asked poetry alumni David Bradford, Claire Caldwell, and Laurie D. Graham—who've all published recent books—to share literature & media inspiring them this spring...

We invited poetry alumni Nancy Jo Cullen, Andrew Faulkner, Liz Howard, and Sheniz Janmohamed to share elements of craft and process from their most recent books...

Congratulations to Guelph CW MFA alumni David Bradford and Liz Howard on being named finalists for this year’s prestigious Griffin Poetry Prize!