Meet some of the talented writers in our Creative Writing MFA program (part one)! ✨📚✨ #CreativeWriting #MFA #UofGuelph #Poetry #Fiction #nonfiction #HybridWriting #Playwriting #CanadianWriters #writingcommunity

Faculty member #CatherineBush will take part in @junctionreads.bsky.social, a reading series at #TypeBooksJunction (2887 Dundas St. W, Toronto) on Sunday, October 5th at 3:00 PM. Catherine will be reading alongside #CaitlinGalway and #MichelleWinters. You won’t want to miss it! 📚✨

Tomorrow night (Friday, September 26th)! Join Guelph MFA alum Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross at Type Books (883 Queen St. W., Toronto) for the launch of her debut, THE LONGEST WAY TO EAT A MELON. With featured reader Cason Sharpe and a conversation with Lee Suksi.

Exciting news! Our own MFA student #EmDial will be participating in @pencanada.bsky.social’s “Drawn to the Page” webinar series this October! Join Em and other talented writers as they explore craft, purpose, and how writers can respond to the social and political challenges of our time.

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New publication by MFA alum @joellekidd.bsky.social! Her article “What Christian Pop Taught Me about Salvation and Shame” is now live on @thewalrus.ca. Joelle is the author of #JESUSLAND: STORIES FROM THE UPSIDE DOWN WORLD OF CHRISTIAN POP CULTURE.

We were honoured to welcome award-winning author Zalika Reid-Benta to our Creative Writing MFA plenary class for a reading and Q&A this week. She spoke about craft, the writing process, and her publishing journey, and ended the visit with a book signing.

Ladies and gentles, animals and machines, and everyone in-between . . . . we are ONE WEEK away from the launch of NMLCT! I'd love it if you could join me to celebrate! Wed, Sept 24, 2025 at The Piston 937 Bloor Street West, from 7 to 10pm [festivities included]

Exciting news! Our program coordinator and plenary class instructor #CanisiaLubrin is the Guest Curator for the 38th annual @writersfest.bc.ca, taking place October 20-26, 2025. See the full schedule and get your tickets here: writersfest.bc.ca/2025-festiva...

Greatl day at the Mississauga Literary Festival! I did a talk on reading poetry and helped with the launch of Issue No. 8 of the @theampersandreview.bsky.social. Great people, great venue, great sense of community, all sorely needed in these brutish times. Thank you, @mississaugalib.bsky.social !!!

Congratulations to #UniversityofGuelph CWMFA alum #JedidiahMugarura on winning the 2025 #SillermanFirstBookPrizeforAfricanPoets for their collection #NYAMUTEZA! The prize includes $1000 USD and publication through University of Nebraska Press. 📚✨ Photo from @africanpoetrybookfund.

Mark your calendars because our beloved monthly #SpeakeasyReadingSeries will return this October! You can follow the series on Instagram and Facebook for more updates. We can’t wait to see you there! 🎤✨

Our MFA students had a lovely time reading at the Eden Mills Writers’ Festival yesterday alongside the Read at the Fringe winners!

Check out this list of new and upcoming releases! We’re proud to celebrate the creative work of our talented community. ✨📚 #guelphcwmfa #mfa #authorcommunity #writingcommunity #readingrecommendations #amreadi̇ng #bookworm #poetry #fiction #nonfiction

Hi everyone! We’re back to celebrate the start of the new school year and hope you’ll continue to follow along as we bring you the latest updates.

BIG NEWS! @uguelphcwmfa Program Coordinator and professor @canisia.lubrin has won the $208,000 CAD @carolshieldsprize, the largest English-language literary prize in the world for women and non-binary authors, for her extraordinary debut fiction CODE NOIR! Huge congratulations, Canisia!!!

That's a wrap for another school year! We are officially on hiatus until September. Also, this is my last official day as @uguelphcwmfa.bsky.social's Social Media Coordinator, as the end of my MFA draws near. Till our paths cross again! With gratitude, Lisa Richter @lisarichter.bsky.social

We are thrilled to see @uguelphcwmfa.bsky.social candidate Phillip Dwight Morgan shortlisted for @writerstrust.bsky.social RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers in Creative Nonfiction! Congratulations, Phill!

Congratulations @uguelphcwmfa.bsky.social alum Leanne Toshiko Simpson, shortlisted for the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writers Prize in the Romance category!

We are thrilled to see @uguelphcwmfa.bsky.social student @kjaiello.bsky.social's debut memoir, The Monster and the Mirror @ecwpress shortlisted for the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writers Prize for nonfiction. Congratulations, KJ! www.kobo.com/media-hub/ra...

@uguelphcwmfa.bsky.social alum @paulvermeersch.bsky.social 's latest poetry collection is now available for pre-order with @ecwpress.bsky.social. We are so looking forward to this book!

We are excited to see that Guelph MFA alum Alexis Von Konigslow has a new novel, THE EXCLUSION ZONE, due out this spring with @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social! The Exclusion Zone was selected for @49thshelf.bsky.social's Most Anticipated Spring Fiction! Congratulations, Alexis!

Introducing the next reader at tomorrow night's Speakeasy Reading Series, organized, curated and hosted by @uofguelph.bsky.social Creative Writing MFA students: writer, journalist, and editor Phillip Dwight Morgan.

Introducing the first of the four incredible readers at the upcoming Speakeasy Reading Series event on Wed. April 16th, Speakeasy's own co-organizer, second-year MFA student and acclaimed writer Chi Leung Lee. See link in comments to attend online.

Today's book is total by Aisha Sasha John.

A great selection of books on craft from @rosemetalpress.bsky.social, curated by @kellypedro.bsky.social!

Very thrilled to have a strange little micro flash in this issue!

Congratulations to current @uofguelph.bsky.social Creative Writing MFA candidate Kelly Pedro, one of the three winners of the CRAFT Literary Flash Fiction Prize! #flashfiction #canadianwriters #MFAstudents

Speakeasy Reading Series is back April 16th, the last of the school year! Featuring the amazing @phillipdwightmorgan @clairegeddesbailey @spondeee.bsky.social & Speakeasy’s very own Chi Leung Lee. Join in person or watch the live-stream on Zoom, 7:00 pm Eastern. ALL are welcome!

A wonderful interview with Guelph CWMFA alum Alexis von Konigslow.

Check out this amazing schedule of readings and events @teresempierre.bsky.social has lined up for her debut full-length poetry collection MYTH out now with @houseofanansi.bsky.social!

We are thrilled to see our MFA Program Coordinator and Plenary professor Canisia Lubrin on the SHORTLIST for the $150,000 Carol Shield Prize for Fiction, which honours books for women and non-binary writers in Canada and the U.S. Huge congratulations, Canisia!

Happy International Trans Day of Visibility! Check out this fantastic upcoming virtual panel with @writersfedofns.bsky.social featuring our very own @krbyggdin.bsky.social, Zoë Comeau, @lukehathaway.bsky.social Trynne Delaney and Sal Sawler, April 23at 7:00 pm AST. writers.ns.ca/workshops-ev...

@uguelphcwmfa.bsky.social alum @gabrielledrolet.bsky.social's much-anticipated debut memoir LOOK MA, NO HANDS is now available for pre-order with McClelland & Stewart! This is definitely one to be excited for.