Writers who have recently visited the Department through the “Writers with Punch” series:

2007-2008

Mark Blagrave
Yann Martel (Man Booker Prize, 2002)
Erin Knight (Young Writers’ Scholarship, University of Alberta, 2001)
Leo McKay Jr. (Giller Prize shortlist, 1995)

2006-2007

Lynn Coady (Canada Council Mid-Career Award, 2005)
Harry Thurston (Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Award, 2005)

2004-2005

Greg Hollingshead (Governor General’s Award for Fiction, 1995)
Elizabeth Hay (Giller Prize, 2007)
Heather Browne Prince

2003-2004

Greg Cook
Kerri Sakamoto (Barker Fairly Distinguished Visitor, University of Toronto, 2005)
Marilyn Dumont (Writer's Guild of Alberta Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry, 2001)
Catherine Banks (Silver Medal Award, du Maurier National Play Competition, 1995)

Yann Martel speaking at the Université de Moncton, November 28, 2007 (Sponsored by the Northrop Frye Literary Festival / Le Festival Frye, La Faculté des arts et des sciences sociales, la Chaire de recherche du Canada en analyse littéraire interculturelle, le Département d'études françaises, and the Department of English).