Students May Now Book a One-on-One Appointment With Barker Fairley Distinguished Visitor Carrianne Leung

In 2020-21, the UC Writing Centre is offering a special opportunity for students interested in creative writing. UC's Barker Fairley Distinguished Visitor for 2020-21, award-winning fiction writer and educator Carrianne Leung, will be available to meet with UC and UC program students in free fifty-minute one-on-one sessions. 

Carrianne's debut novel, The Wondrous Woo, was shortlisted for the 2014 Toronto Book Awards. Her collection of linked stories, That Time I Loved You, was released in 2018 by HarperCollins and in 2019 in the US by Liveright Publishing. It received starred reviews from Kirkus Reviews, was named as one of the Best Books of 2018 by CBC, was awarded the Danuta Gleed Literary Award in 2019, was shortlisted for the Toronto Book Awards 2019, and was long listed for Canada Reads 2019. Leung’s work has also been appeared in The Puritan, Ricepaper, The Globe and Mail, Room Magazine, Prairie Fire, and Open Book Ontario.

She will be available to meet with students who

• want to read through a piece of creative fiction or creative non-fiction for immediate feedback
• want to discuss any aspect of the writing life
• want to discuss their own creative process and direction

Jennifer will be available to meet with students in the fall between 10 and 11 on Tuesday mornings from Sept. 29 to Nov. 3. All fall appointments will be online. Winter appointments will be announced later in term.

You may book online now.