2011 Writers In Residence
The NOW HEAR THIS! S.W.A.T. program is thrilled this year to be back for a sixth year. This fall we've placed 4 writers in 4 TCDSB schools across Toronto! To learn more about the writers please read their profiles below, and of course check out our HEAR/HEAR Reading Series!
Roseanne Carrara Roseanne Carrara is the author of a A Newer Wilderness (Insomniac Press). She received the Malahat Review Long Poem prize for the sequence, "Kenotaphion." In 2008, she earned her PhD in English (18th century poetry) from the University of Toronto. She is now completing her first novel, The Week in Radio, as well her second book of poems, Spectral Evidence, and, with her husband, Blaise Moritz, a translation of the poems of Jacques Ellul. Roseanne Carrara is the writer in residence for Notre Dame. |
Colin Frizzell Colin Frizzell is the author of the Orca Soundings novel Chill (2006); and the Young Adult novel, Just J (2007). The Ontario Library Association named Just J as a Best Bet for 2007 and in the Canadian Children’s Book Centre highlighted it in their Best Books for Kids & Teens 2008 magazine. Chill is currently being taught at Father John Redmond Secondary School in Toronto. Colin Frizzell is the writer in residence for James Cardinal McGuigan. |
Emma Roberts Emma Roberts is a Toronto based writer and a graduate of the National Theatre School and the Canadian Film Centre. Her work has appeared in Playwrights Canada Press, Véhicule Press, M-Pty Magazine, Exile: The Literary Quarterly, NOW Magazine, HOUR Magazineand the Globe and Mail. She was a finalist in the 2009 Carl Sautter Memorial Television Outreach Programin Los Angeles and her work has been broadcast regularly on the CBC.
Emma Roberts is the writer in residence for St. Mary. |
Natalie Zina Walschots
Natalie Zina Walschots' first book of poetry, Thumbscrews, won the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry and was published by Snare Books in 2007. Her next book, DOOM: Love Poems for Supervillains, is forthcoming from Insomniac Press (Spring 2012). Her poetry has recently appeared in Carousel, broken pencil, The Peter F. Yacht Club, dANDelion, ditch, Last Supper, Misunderstandings Magazine, Open Letter, and Rampike, and is forthcoming in Matrix and dead gender. Natalie completed her MA in English/Creative Writing at the University of Calgary. She has served as the Managing Editor of both filling Station and dANDelion magazines. She also co-curated the Flywheel reading series from 2005 to 2008. She recently served on the executive board of the Scream Literary Festival as the Volunteer Coordinator. She now works as a writer-in-residence through the NOW HEAR THIS!/S.W.A.T. Program, the literacy outreach arm of the Descant Arts & Letters Foundation. Natalie writes live concert reviews, album reviews, interviews, blog posts, and articles for Hellbound.ca, Alternative Matter, Angry Metal Guy, About Heavy Metal and Exclaim!. She is the Managing Editor of, and contributor to, Canada Arts Connect. Along with designer Eugenia Catroppa, Natalie recently founded Golden Spruce Entertainment (http://www.goldenspruceentertainment.ca), a promotions company specializing in heavy music. Her base of operations is located in Toronto. http://www.nataliezed.ca/ Twitter: @NatalieZed
Natalie Zina Walschots is the writer in residence for Neil McNeil. |