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Write to Read 2025

Date & Time: 7:00 PM on Thu, 10 April

Winners of 2025 Creative Writing Awards Announced

Winners of 2025 Creative Writing Contests Announced

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2025 Cyril Byrne Lecture with Kate Beaton

Date & Time: 7:00 PM on Fri, 21 March
Location: Scotiabank Theatre, Sobey Building (SMU Campus)

Dr. Goran Stanivukovic’s essay about Christopher Marlowe and his tragedy Edward II published in the program for the current stage production of this play by the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford-upon-Avon, UK

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A poster for the 2024 English Department Creative Writing Awards: Margó Takacs Marshall Prize for Excellence in Short Story Writing and Joyce Marshall Hsia Memorial Poetry Prize

Call for Submissions: Department of English Creative Writing Awards

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A poster for a SMU Reading Series event featuring Jack Wong and Sydney Smith

Kids' Lit. at SMU, with Jack Wong and Sydney Smith: an evening celebrating visual storytelling as an art for all ages

Date & Time: 7:00 PM on Thu, 21 November

Poster promoting Sue Murtagh's new book launch titled

SMU Reading Series: Book Launch, We’re Not Rich by Sue Murtagh

Date & Time: 7:00 PM on Wed, 23 October

A talk & workshop on songwriting with composer, band-leader, & songwriter Benton Roark

Date & Time: 10:00 AM on Fri, 18 October
Location: McNally Main Room 201

THE SIGN OF JONAS, an apocalypse folktale

Date & Time: 7:00 PM on Wed, 16 October
Location: Paul O’Regan Hall, Halifax Central Library

A poster promoting Humanities at Large Podcast with Dr. Teresa Heffernan

Absence of Intelligence: the Science and Fiction of AI (podcast)

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Winners of 2024 Creative Writing Awards Announced

Date & Time: 12:00 PM on Fri, 19 April

A poster promoting a workshop on Intelligence in the absence of life.

Dr. Teresa Heffernan is hosting "Intelligence" in the Absence of Life one day workshop at UofT

Date & Time: 9:30 AM on Tue, 9 April
Location: JHB 100, 170 St George Street

Submissions are now open for the 2024 Department of English Creative Writing Awards

Date & Time: 11:59 PM on Fri, 5 April

A SMU Reading Series Poster promoting the last event of its 2023/24 season with poets Gavin Barret and Jennifer LoveGrove on Monday, March, 25, 2024 at 07:00 pm in Atrium 101. Gavin and Jennifer's photos are on the left side of the poster.

The SMU Reading Series welcomes two poets for its last reading of the 2023/24 season

Date & Time: 7:00 PM on Mon, 25 March
Location: Atrium 101, SMU Campus

A poster of SMU Reading Series Event with Casey Plett.

Reading + Q&A with SMU's 2024 Writer in Residence Casey Plett

Date & Time: 7:00 PM on Wed, 13 March
Location: Atrium 101, SMU Campus

Right to Left - Dr. Rowland Marshall, three top prize winners of 2023 creative writing awards, and Dr. Alexander MacLeod.

Winners of 2023 Poetry and Fiction Prizes Announced

Date & Time: 12:00 PM on Wed, 17 May
2023

Graduate Farewell

Date & Time: 4:00 PM on Thu, 18 May
Location: The Arts Commons (MM 214)

Nova Scotia launches new Atlantic Media Preservation Laboratory, Margaret Perry exhibit

Date & Time: 9:00 AM on Tue, 27 September
2022

Researcher sparks new conversations about machine learning and robotics

Date & Time: 10:05 AM on Thu, 16 June
2022

A photo of Dr. Alexander MacLeod standing behind MacNally Building SMU

‘Lagomorph’ story by Dr. Alexander MacLeod wins Nova Scotia’s top arts prize

Date & Time: 11:52 AM on Fri, 10 December
2021

New Book Examines British Political Turbulence Through Novels of the 1970s

Date & Time: 9:00 AM on Fri, 16 July
2021

Authors Frank Macdonald and Tom Ryan standing together

Award-winning local authors at Saint Mary’s Reading Series

Date & Time: 10:13 AM on Fri, 20 December
2019

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