Writers-in-Residence
2022-2023 Writers-in-Residence:
Daniel Lockhard (April 23 to May 20, 2022)
D.A. Lockhart is the author Devil in the Woods (Brick Books, 2019) and Breaking Right (Porcupine's Quill, 2020). His work has appeared widely throughout Turtle Island, including Best Canadian Poetry 2019, the Malahat Review, Grain, CV2, TriQuarterly, The Fiddlehead, and Belt. He is pùkuwànkoamimëns of the Moravian of the Thames First Nation. Lockhart currently resides at Waawiiyaatanong, where he is the publisher at Urban Farmhouse Press.
Hannah Rahimi (May 22 to June 10, 2022)
Hannah Rahimi lives in Montreal. Her short fiction has been published in Cosmonaut's Avenue, Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading, New England Review and Carve. She has been a finalist for the Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers and the New England Review Award for Emerging Writers.
Charmaine Cadeau (June12 to July 1, 2022)
John Barton (July 3 to August 5, 2022)
John Barton’s twenty-six books, chapbooks, and anthologies include The Malahat at Fifty: Canada's Iconic Literary Journal (2017), Polari (2014), For the Boy with the Eyes of the Virgin: Selected Poems (2012), and Seminal: The Anthology of Canada’s Gay-Male Poets (2007). Since 1980, magazines, newspapers, and anthologies on four continents have published his poems, essays, and reviews. A three-time recipient of the Archibald Lampman Award, he’s also won an Ottawa Book Award, a CBC Literary Award, and a National Magazine Award. Between 1989 and 2018, John edited Arc Poetry Magazine, Vernissage: The Magazine of the National Gallery of Canada, and The Malahat Review. We Are Not Avatars: Essays, Memoirs, Manifestos, his first book of prose with Palimpsest Press, and The Essential Douglas LePan, with Porcupine's Quill, were published in the spring of 2019. Signal Editions will publish his twelfth collection of poems, Lost Family, a book of sonnets, in 2020.
(Photo credit: John Preston)
Ariel Gordon (August 14 to 26, 2022)
Ariel Gordon (she/her) is a Winnipeg/Treaty 1 territory-based writer, editor, and enthusiast. She is the author of two collections of urban-nature poetry, both of which won the Lansdowne Prize for Poetry – Treed: Walking in Canada’s Urban Forests (Wolsak & Wynn, 2019), and TreeTalk (At Bay Press, 2020), a public poetry project where Ariel hangs poems in trees and asks passersby to add their thoughts, ideas, and secrets.
Tanis MacDonald (August 14 to 26, 2022)
Tanis MacDonald is the author of seven books, the latest being Straggle: Adventures in Walking While Female (Wolsak and Wynn, 2022). Her last book of poetry, Mobile (Book*hug Press, 2019) was longlisted for the Toronto Book Award in 2020. Originally from the prairies, she has made her home in southwestern Ontario for the past 15 years, on traditional territories of the Anishnaabe and Haudenosauneee peoples. She hosts the podcast Watershed Writers and is a Professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University.
Ronna Bloom (August 28 to September 23, 2022)
Ronna Bloom is the author of six poetry collections. Her most recent book, The More (Pedlar Press, 2017), was longlisted for the City of Toronto Book Award. She has collaborated with filmmakers, architects, choreographers, and conservationists, and has had work exhibited in Canada, the UK, and Italy. Ronna is currently Poet in Community to the University of Toronto and developed the Poet in Residence program at Sinai Health. Her chapbook, Who is your mercy contact? will be published by Espresso-chapbooks in Spring 2022.
H.E. Casson (October 9 to October 23, 2022)
H.E. Casson (they/them) is a Toronto area poet, short fiction writer, and voice actor. Their works are often speculative, and themes include gender, sexuality, homelessness, disability, family, and the structures and playfulness of language. Casson is a Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize nominee and their performance in Moonbase Theta, Out as Moddy Sarah was an Audio Verse Award finalist. They can be found at hecasson.com and as @hecasson on Twitter.
Matthew Hollett (April 16 to May 26, 2023)
Matthew Hollett is a writer and photographer in St. John’s, Newfoundland (Ktaqmkuk). His work explores landscape and memory through photography, writing and walking. Album Rock (Boulder Books, 2018), his first book, is a work of creative nonfiction and poetry investigating a curious photograph taken in Newfoundland in the 1850s. He won the 2020 CBC Poetry Prize for “Tickling the Scar,” a poem about walking the Lachine Canal during the early days of the pandemic. His poetry collection Optic Nerve is forthcoming from Brick Books in 2023.
Paul Elter (May 28 to June 23, 2023)
Paul Elter and his partner lived in remote cabins in the Yukon and raised three children with few modern conveniences. His work focuses on belonging and place, personal storytelling, travel, struggle and displacement, the outsider and what living in the space between historical past and contemporary present can mean. Elter currently lives in Chelsea, Quebec, and is a photographer at the National Gallery of Canada. He was the winner of Yukon’s Advanced Artist Award in 2000. Most recent writings include Royal Photographic Society’s “Travel & the Mobile Darkroom, Silver, Salt & the Arctic Ocean” (2020) and “One and Many: Wet-Collodion and Woodburytype” (2021); and a recent lecture for the Colour Fever Symposium at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, England, “Maxwell’s Disapointment- Sutton’s Accident” (2021).
Garth Martens (June 25 to July 21, 2023)
Garth Martens is a member of Palabra Flamenco, an ensemble that combines traditional flamenco dance, guitar, and song with English-language poetry. His first book is Prologue for the Age of Consequence (Anansi, 2014), a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award in Poetry. He has also published a chapbook, Remediation (JackPine, 2018), with visual artist Chelsea Rushton. In 2011, he won the Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers.
