School of Continuing Studies / en Anuja Varghese wins Governor General’s Literary Award /celebrates/anuja-varghese-wins-governor-general-s-literary-award <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Anuja Varghese wins Governor General’s Literary Award </span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-type/community" hreflang="en">Community</a></div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>rahul.kalvapalle</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2023-12-15T10:15:44-05:00" title="Friday, December 15, 2023 - 10:15" class="datetime">Fri, 12/15/2023 - 10:15</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-people field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-people/students" hreflang="en">Students</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-campus field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-campus/st-george" hreflang="en">St. George</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/school-continuing-studies" hreflang="en">School of Continuing Studies</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-image-orientation field--type-list-string field--label-hidden field__item">landscape</div> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/2023-12/Anuja-Varghese-1-crop.jpg" width="750" height="500" alt="&quot;&quot;"> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-cutline-long field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p><em>Anuja Varghese (supplied image)</em></p> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p><strong>Anuja Varghese</strong>, a learner in the creative writing program of the Ƶ’s School of Continuing Studies (SCS), has won the <a href="https://ggbooks.ca/chrysalis">Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction</a> for her short story collection, <em>Chrysalis</em>.</p> <p>The Governor General’s Literary Awards are presented by the Canada Council for the&nbsp;Arts and recognize the best Canadian books of the year.</p> <p>“It’s such an honour to be recognized with this award, and in the company of such incredible authors,” said Varghese. “I’m so grateful for the ways U of T supported my writing journey and I hope to use this prize to open doors for other queer and racialized writers, as doors have been opened for me.”</p> <p>Varghese completed her certificate in creative writing in September 2023, having developed several of the stories featured in <em>Chrysalis</em> in her SCS classes.</p> <p>“We are thrilled that Anuja has joined the growing number of award-winning writers emerging from our creative writing program,” said <strong>Catherine Chandler-Crichlow</strong>, dean of SCS. “I know that our instructors are inspired by our learners’ talent, dedication and creativity from their first days in the classroom, and it’s so wonderful to see that talent recognized when they take the brave step of sharing their work with the world.”</p> <h3><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMCQzVxWJ1g">Learn more about Varghese’s experience in SCS</a></h3> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-source field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">School of Continuing Studies</div> <div class="field field--name-field-top-story-hub-page- field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Top Story (Hub page)</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Fri, 15 Dec 2023 15:15:44 +0000 rahul.kalvapalle 304942 at Canisia Lubrin and Dionne Brand recognized with Windham-Campbell prizes /celebrates/canisia-lubrin-and-dionne-brand-recognized-windham-campbell-prizes <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Canisia Lubrin and Dionne Brand recognized with Windham-Campbell prizes</span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-type/community" hreflang="en">Community</a></div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>lanthierj</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2021-03-26T15:27:30-04:00" title="Friday, March 26, 2021 - 15:27" class="datetime">Fri, 03/26/2021 - 15:27</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-people field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-people/staff" hreflang="en">Staff</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-people/alumni" hreflang="en">Alumni</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-campus field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-campus/st-george" hreflang="en">St. George</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/windham-campbell-prize" hreflang="en">The Windham-Campbell Prize</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/school-continuing-studies" hreflang="en">School of Continuing Studies</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/honorary-degree" hreflang="en">Honorary Degree</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-image-orientation field--type-list-string field--label-hidden field__item">landscape</div> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/media/brand-lubrin.jpg" width="750" height="500" alt="Dionne Brand and Canisia Lubrin"> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-cutline-long field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item">(Photos courtesy of Penguin Random House Canada)</div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Renowned authors <strong>Canisia Lubrin </strong>and <strong>Dionne Brand </strong>have each received one of the world’s most sought-after literary awards: <a href="https://windhamcampbell.org/">The Windham-Campbell prize</a>.</p> <p>Awarded by Yale University to eight writers annually, the prize gives US$165,000 (more than C$206,000) to each author in recognition of their extraordinary literary achievements. While both Brand and Lubrin write in many forms, Brand was recognized for fiction and Lubrin for poetry.</p> <p>The author of the critically acclaimed <em>Voodoo Hypothesis</em>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cbc.ca/books/canisia-lubrin-uses-the-language-of-the-past-to-explore-the-future-in-her-new-poetry-collection-1.5538588">and&nbsp;<em>The Dyzgraphxst</em>,</a> Lubrin is an instructor at the Ƶ’s School of Continuing Studies and was also recently named poetry editor at McClelland &amp; Stewart, succeeding Brand in the role. Describing her work, the judges said:&nbsp;“Bursting beyond the confines of legibility and the individual, Canisia Lubrin summons up oceans, languages, and the self, the other, and the first-person plural, into a generous baroque project of anti-colonial plenitude.”</p> <p>“It is impossible to express what this extraordinary encouragement means, what being in such company during such a catastrophic time, will make possible,” Lubrin said in a statement.</p> <p>Alumna <a href="/news/poet-writer-activist-and-u-t-alumna-dionne-brand-receives-honorary-degree">and honorary degree recipient </a>Brand is a novelist, essayist and Toronto’s former poet laureate, whose most recent book is called <em>Theory</em>.</p> <p>“Funny, wild, and completely lacking in pretension,&nbsp;<em>Theory&nbsp;</em>takes huge formal risks, reimagining the novel of ideas for our own moment, challenging and enchanting the reader at the same time,” the judges said.</p> <p>“This is an astonishing surprise,” Brand said in a statement. “It will take me weeks, maybe months to find the best words to describe my amazement. For now let me say, wondrous.”</p> <h3><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/books/canadians-dionne-brand-and-canisia-lubrin-among-winners-of-165k-us-windham-campbell-prize-1.5959340">Read the CBC story</a></h3> <h3><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/mar/22/kate-briggs-renee-gladman-windham-campbell-prizes">Read the Guardian story</a></h3> <h3><a href="https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books/article-two-canadian-writers-win-yale-prize-a-week-before-one-takes-over-for/">Read The Globe and Mail story</a></h3> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-source field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">UTC</div> <div class="field field--name-field-top-story-hub-page- field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Top Story (Hub page)</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Fri, 26 Mar 2021 19:27:30 +0000 lanthierj 168875 at Don Gillmor, instructor at School of Continuing Studies, wins Governor General's literary award /celebrates/don-gillmor-instructor-school-continuing-studies-wins-governor-general-s-literary-award <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Don Gillmor, instructor at School of Continuing Studies, wins Governor General's literary award</span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-type/community" hreflang="en">Community</a></div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>geoff.vendeville</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2019-10-29T06:26:06-04:00" title="Tuesday, October 29, 2019 - 06:26" class="datetime">Tue, 10/29/2019 - 06:26</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-people field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-people/staff" hreflang="en">Staff</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-campus field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-campus/st-george" hreflang="en">St. George</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/school-continuing-studies" hreflang="en">School of Continuing Studies</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-image-orientation field--type-list-string field--label-hidden field__item">landscape</div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p><strong>Don Gillmor</strong>, who teaches novel-writing at the Ƶ’s School for Continuing Studies, won a Governor General’s literary award in the nonfiction category for&nbsp;<em>To the River: Losing My Brother</em>.&nbsp;</p> <p>The book&nbsp;describes Gillmor’s trip to Whitehorse, Yukon&nbsp;to understand why his brother David took his own life more than 10 years ago.&nbsp;</p> <p>“In clear, crisp prose, Gillmor has written a book that is searingly honest and heartbreakingly sad,” the jury said, according to the CBC.</p> <p>“From the story of his brother’s life and death to a larger exploration of white, middle-aged masculinity, Gillmor impresses us with his quiet insights.”</p> <h3><a href="/news/gwen-benaway-and-two-other-u-t-community-members-win-governor-general-s-literary-awards">Read the <em>U of T News</em> story</a></h3> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-source field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">UTC</div> <div class="field field--name-field-top-story-hub-page- field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Top Story (Hub page)</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Tue, 29 Oct 2019 10:26:06 +0000 geoff.vendeville 160311 at