Souvankham Thammavongsa is the author of four poetry books and the short story collection How to Pronounce Knife, winner of the 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize and the 2021 Trillium Book Award, finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and PEN/America Open Book Award, out now with McClelland & Stewart (Canada), Little, Brown (U.S.), and Bloomsbury (U.K.). Her stories have won an O. Henry Award and appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper’s Magazine, The Paris Review, and Granta. She was a 2021 Griffin Poetry Prize jury member and editor of its anthology in that year, and has reviewed books for The New York Times Book Review. She is currently at work on her first novel.
Ms. Thammavongsa will offer a non-credit poetry and short-fiction workshop in the “S” term on Wednesdays, 6-8 pm. The workshop’s delivery method will be online synchronous.
The workshop, which will accommodate no more than 15 participants, is by application and open to everyone who is currently part of the University of Toronto three-campus community-faculty, students, and staff.
If you’re interested in taking this workshop, please submit via email (mailto:smaro.kamboureli@utoronto.ca) six poems totalling 10 pages in MS Word or PDF format. No cover letter or CV is necessary.
NB: Attachments should be saved under the applicant’s and the program’s names (e.g., Smith_JackMcClelland_Sample_2022) and the submission email should include the following subject heading: “Jack McClelland Writer in Residence 2022 Seminar.”
The deadline for submissions is midnight, Saturday, November 20th.
The screening will be done by the writer in residence, and results will be announced before the Winter break.
