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Welcome to WOTS 2021, and thank you for joining us for today’s Fall Feature! Today’s guests are Catherine Bush and Canisia Lubrin from the University of Guelph’s Creative Writing MFA. We'll be discussing the benefits of studying creative writing, the ways art can help artists engage in the issues of our time, and what makes Guelph’s literary community unique.
To find out more about the Creative Writing programs at University of Guelph, check out uoguelph.ca/arts/cwmfa. If you have any questions regarding the program and admissions, send an email to cwmfa@uoguelph.ca. To check out more events and discussions during our 2021 festival, go to toronto.thewordonthestreet.ca!
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Catherine Bush is the author of five novels, including Blaze Island (2020), a Globe & Mail Best Book, and The Rules of Engagement (2000), a national bestseller and New York Times Notable Book. Her books have been shortlisted for the Trillium and City of Toronto Book Awards. Her nonfiction has been published in the New York Times, Brick, Emergence, and Best Canadian Essays. She has been the Coordinator of the Guelph Creative Writing MFA since 2008.
Canisia Lubrin is the author of three books, including Code Noir (Knopf, 2023) and The Dyzgraphxst (M&S, 2020), winner of, among others, the Griffin Prize and OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean literature. Awarded a 2021 Windham-Campbell poetry prize, Lubrin is a Creative Writing professor at the University of Guelph.
Welcome to WOTS 2021, and thank you for joining us for today’s Fall Feature! Today’s guests are Catherine Bush and Canisia Lubrin from the University of Guelph’s Creative Writing MFA. We'll be discussing the benefits of studying creative writing, the ways art can help artists engage in the issues of our time, and what makes Guelph’s literary community unique.
To find out more about the Creative Writing programs at University of Guelph, check out uoguelph.ca/arts/cwmfa. If you have any questions regarding the program and admissions, send an email to cwmfa@uoguelph.ca. To check out more events and discussions during our 2021 festival, go to toronto.thewordonthestreet.ca!
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Catherine Bush is the author of five novels, including Blaze Island (2020), a Globe & Mail Best Book, and The Rules of Engagement (2000), a national bestseller and New York Times Notable Book. Her books have been shortlisted for the Trillium and City of Toronto Book Awards. Her nonfiction has been published in the New York Times, Brick, Emergence, and Best Canadian Essays. She has been the Coordinator of the Guelph Creative Writing MFA since 2008.
Canisia Lubrin is the author of three books, including Code Noir (Knopf, 2023) and The Dyzgraphxst (M&S, 2020), winner of, among others, the Griffin Prize and OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean literature. Awarded a 2021 Windham-Campbell poetry prize, Lubrin is a Creative Writing professor at the University of Guelph.
