The school year is starting and that means new faces, new classes and a whole new fall literary season packed with events. The program kicks off our semester with the annual tradition of a new-and-returning student reading at the Eden Mills Writers Festival, hosted by program director Catherine Bush. Later in the month, you can also look forward to seeing program alumni at Toronto's Word on the Street. Check out event details and links below...
The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open, co-written and directed by Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers and Guelph CWMFA grad Kathleen Hepburn—pictured, left—has capped off an incredible debut season with another major prize...this time the $100k Best Canadian Film Award from the Toronto Film Critics Association. Our heartfelt congratulations to the entire production team!
We asked MFA alumni publishing books this season what they’re reading, and what they'd recommend. Here's a taste of what you'll find on Becky Blake's bookshelf:
Congratulations to alumna Ayelet Tasabari on being named a finalist for the prestigious Hillary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction!
Our heartiest congratulations go out to MFA grad Leanne Milech, this year’s winner of the Carter V. Cooper Short Fiction Award (emerging writer), presented by Exile/ELQ, and sponsored by Gloria Vanderbilt in honour of her late son.
We asked MFA alumni publishing books this season what they’re reading, and what they'd recommend. Here's what Nancy Jo Cullen is currently obessing over:
MFA alumna Simone Dalton shares the origin of her playwriting debut, part of RARE Theatre's Welcome to My Underworld, at Soulpepper May 8–25.