Two of three Griffin Poetry Prize short-listed poets are graduates of the Guelph Creative Writing MFA, Liz Howard and Soraya Peerbaye. Liz Howard is nominated for Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent (McClelland and Stewart), and Soraya Peerbaye is nominated for Tell: poems for a girlhood (Pedlar Press).
Congratulations to MFA grad Liz Howard who has won te 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize for her collection, Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent.
Two SETS Theatre Studies graduates have recently been appointed to artistic directorships at major theatres, Thomas Morgan Jones at Theatre New Brunswick (one of the country's largest regional theatres) and Nina Lee Aquino to Toronto's Factory Theatre (one of the leading theatres in the country doing new work).
Professor Christine Bold has received the John Topham and Susan Redd Butler Off-campus Faculty Research Award from the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, Brigham Young University, for her research on "Vaudeville Indians." She will also be a plenary speaker at the ACCUTE conference in May 2016 in Calgary.
A University of Guelph graduate is the winner of this year’s prestigious Griffin Poetry Prize for Canadian poets, and is also the youngest winner in the competition’s history.
Liz Howard, a creative writing master of fine arts (MFA) graduate, was awarded the $65,000 prize for her first book, Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent. She accepted the award at a ceremony June 2 in Toronto. She also received $10,000 for taking part in the Griffin Prize readings the day before.
Professor Sandra Singer has co-edited Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook After Fifty. A previous co-edited volume will appear in paperback this Fall: Doris Lessing: Interrogating the Times.
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SETS professor Daniel Fischlin is the editor of a new series of Shakespeare editions tailored to the Canadian student. For more information follow this link: http://www.rocksmills.com/shakespeare-made-in-canada.html
SETS faculty member Christine Bold has been awarded two fellowships: a Visiting Canadian Fellowship in North American Studies at the Eccles Centre, British Library, London, and a Harry Ransom Center Research Fellowship in the Humanities at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin. Both are in support of her "Vaudeville Indians" project. Congratulations!
SETS professor Jennifer Schacker has just published a co-edited collection with Wayne State University Press: Feathers, Paws, Fins, and Claws: Fairy-Tale Beasts. For more information go to http://www.wsupress.wayne.edu/books/detail/feathers-paws-fins-and-claws