The Department of English annually sponsors a writer-in-residence, both to offer support to Canadian writers and to give students direct access to the writer's advice and experience.

What is the writer in residence program?

The writer-in-residence holds regular office hours for students who wish to discuss their own work, visits classes upon invitation, gives public readings, and on occasion teaches a course.

The program is funded jointly by the Faculty of Arts and the Canada Council. 

2023 - 2024

Jay Odjick

Jay Odjick is an artist, writer, and television producer from the Kitigan Zibi Anishinabe community in Quebec. In comics, Jay has worked for several independent publishers and created the web comic POWER HOUR, and wrote and illustrated the graphic novel KAGAGI: The Raven, published by Arcana Comics. More recently, Jay has also served as an Executive Producer, lead writer and designer on the animated series adaptation, Kagagi, on APTN. Jay has also illustrated seven books written by Robert Munsch, published for the first time in Ojibwe, and has provided illustrations as well for a reprinting of Clive Barker’s “The Midnight Meat Train.”

Jay Odjick
Jay Odjick is an artist, writer, and television producer from the Kitigan Zibi Anishinabe community in Quebec.
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English Department welcomes first Indigenous Writer-in-Residence

Read our interview with Jay Odjick to learn more about our current writer in residence.
Read the interview

Past writers in residence

Kagiso Lesego Molope

Kagiso Lesego Molope

2022-2023
Shyam Selvadurai

Shyam Selvadurai

2021-2022
Stuart Ross

Stuart Ross

2020-2021
Rawi Hage

Rawi Hage

2019-2020
Souvankham Thammavongsa

Souvankham Thammavongsa

2017-2018
Madeleine Thien

Madeleine Thien

2016-2017
Phil Hall

Phil Hall

2014-2015
Nancy Richler

Nancy Richler

2013-2014
Erín Moure

Erín Moure

2009-2010

More past writers

2008-2009: Steven Heighton
2006-2007: Allan Cumyn
2004-2005: Gary Geddes
2002-2003: Charles Gordon
1992-1993: David Adams Richards
1990-1991: Jane Urquhart
1989-1990: Carol Shields
1987-1988: Janette Turner Hospital
1984-1985: Guy Vanderhaege
1981-1983: Jack Hodgins
1978-1979: Irving Layton
1977-1978: Joy Kogawa
1976-1977: Dorothy Livesay
1974-1975: Miriam Waddington

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