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Janice Kulyk Keefer fonds

  • F0482
  • Fonds
  • 1927-1933, 1970-[2015?]

Fonds consists of material that documents Kulyk Keefer's career as a writer and academic. These records include personal and professional correspondence with fellow writers, files related to her work with the Eden Mills Writers' Festival and House of Anansi, drafts of poems and short stories, and draft manuscripts of her published works of fiction and non-fiction. Also included are research and subject files and promotional materials pertaining to her writing projects, copies of published writing by and about Kulyk Keefer, personal notebooks, speeches and photographs.

Correspondence and subject files

Series consists of Kulyk Keefer’s personal and professional correspondence, largely with other Canadian writers, as well as subject files pertaining to her literary career, including research materials, publicity materials, book reviews, newspaper clippings and magazine articles.

Undergraduate essays

File consists of mostly handwritten English literature essays by Kulyk Keefer while an undergraduate at the University of Toronto. Included in the file is her grade 13 report card.

My brilliant (academic) career

File consists of letters pertaining to scholarships and awards for academic achievement issued to Kulyk Keefer, as well as copies of her University of Toronto transcript and a 1987 letter from Nova Scotia premier John M. Buchanan congratulating her on her first-place prize for best short story in the CBC Radio literary competition.

Writing files

Series consists of draft and published versions of Kulyk Keefer’s writing, including notes, poems, short stories, journal and magazine articles, book reviews, as well as novels and books of poetry including "Travelling ladies" (1992), "Rest harrow" (1992), "The green library" (1996), "Marrying the sea" (1998), "Honey and ashes" (1998), "Thieves" (2004), "The ladies’ lending library" (2007), and "Foreign relations" (2010). Also included in the series are notebooks, photographs from a trip to Ukraine, speaking notes from lectures, and her undergraduate essays.

Correspondence

File consists of Kulyk Keefer's incoming correspondence, mostly from other writers. Some correspondence pertains to the organization of writers to attend the Eden Mills Writers' Festival. Correspondents include Al Purdy, Patrick Friesen, Myrna Kostash, Steven Heighton, Esta Spalding, Catherine Byron, Natalka Husar, John Irving, Helen Humphries, Fiona Kidman, Mavis Gallant, Michael Winter, Anne Compton, Joan Barfoot, Michael Tregebov, Carol Shields, John Metcalf, Matt Cohen, Timothy Findley, Douglas Glover, Isabel Huggan, David Zieroth, Rhea Tregebov, Jane Urquhart, Jane Rule, Clara Thomas, Jan Zwicky, Michael Ondaatje, and Ann Ireland.

Correspondence

File consists of Kulyk Keefer's incoming correspondence, mostly from other writers. Some correspondence pertains to the organization of writers to attend the Eden Mills Writers' Festival. Correspondents include Al Purdy, Patrick Friesen, Myrna Kostash, Steven Heighton, Esta Spalding, Catherine Byron, Natalka Husar, John Irving, Helen Humphries, Fiona Kidman, Mavis Gallant, Michael Winter, Anne Compton, Joan Barfoot, Michael Tregebov, Carol Shields, John Metcalf, Matt Cohen, Timothy Findley, Douglas Glover, Isabel Huggan, David Zieroth, Rhea Tregebov, Jane Urquhart, Jane Rule, Clara Thomas, Jan Zwicky, Michael Ondaatje, and Ann Ireland.

Notes

File consists of Kulyk Keefer's handwritten notes composed while on a poetry reading tour in the UK.

Copy of letter from Margaret Laurence

Item is a photocopy of a letter written by Laurence, accompanied by a letter of recommendation for she wrote for Kulyk Keefer for a Canada Council grant. In her letter, Laurence details her cancer diagnosis.

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