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SETS PhD candidate Stephanie Settle has received the Annaley Naegle Redd Assistantship Award from the Charles Redd Center at Brigham Young University

The story collection Eye, written by recently-retired University of Guelph English professor Dr. Marianne Micros and published by Guernica Editions of Toronto in the Fall of 2018, is one of five titles nationally to be shortlisted by Writers’ Union of Canada judges for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award recognizing the best first collection of short fiction published that year in English. The volume explores the mythology, folklore, Greek customs, and old-world cultures that have fascinated Marianne all her life.

Check out SETS Professor Jennifer Schacker's recently released book, Staging Fairyland.

https://www.wsupress.wayne.edu/books/detail/staging-fairyland

SETS Professor Mark Fortier's Literature and Law will be published by Routledge on May 24.

https://www.routledge.com/Literature-and-Law-1st-Edition/Fortier/p/book/9780815384687

SETS Professor Dionne Brand's book of poetry The Blue Clerk has been nominated for Ontario's Trillium Book Award and the Griffin Poetry Prize.

Karyn Freedman is one of the contributing authors to a new volume entitled "Whatever Gets you Through: Twelve Survivors on Life After Sexual Assault". There will be a book launch in Toronto on April 10th. See the link below for more information.

The School of Fine Art and Music and Guelph Arts Council thank the generous support and donation from the RBC Emerging Artists Project to the Guelph Emerging Artist Mentorship Project. The project supports emerging artists in the critical transition from the academic to professional life. In the first three rounds of the project, 27 emerging musicians, visual artists, and cultural managers were paired with Guelph artist mentors.