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File consists of e-mail exchanged between Swan and Natalee Caple, as well as related e-mail from Margaret Atwood, Brad Cran, Judy Rebick and Joseph Boyden, and a copy of a letter from Brian Brett to the president of the University of British Columbia.

File consists of greeting cards sent to Swan, including cards celebrating her 70th birthday in 2015 and her engagement and marriage to Patrick Crean in 2016.

Fonds consists of records documenting Susan Swan's personal life and professional activities as a writer, university professor, journalist and advocate for the arts, including correspondence, notebooks, day planners, research materials, photographs, lecture notes, sound recordings, promotional materials and manuscript drafts pertaining to Swan's novels and other writing projects.

Series consists of personal and professional correspondence and e-mail, sent and received by Swan.

Item includes notes by editor Janice Zawerbny.

File consists of e-mail exchanged between Swan and Marc Cote, Fred Hacker and Barbara Gowdy, as well as greeting cards sent to Swan on the occasions of her birthday, Christmas and marriage to Patrick Crean.

Series consists of drafts and proofs of articles, poems, plays, short stories, essays and novels written by Swan, including "Unfit for Paradise", "The Biggest Modern Woman of the World", "The Last of the Golden Girls", "The Wives of Bath", "Stupid Boys Are Good to Relax With", "What Casanova Told Me", "The Western Light" (previously titled "Black Ships" and "The Hockey Killer"), and "The Dead Celebrities Club". Series also includes research material and notes pertaining to Swan's writing projects, correspondence with publishers and collaborators, lecture notes pertaining to Swan's book tours, promotional material for several of her books, as well as screenplays for the proposed and/or produced films of "The Biggest Modern Woman of the World" and "The Wives of Bath".

File consists of e-mail sent and received by Swan pertaining to research for her book, The Dead Celebrities Club, performances of her theatre project, "Heroines of the Sexual Gothic", her participation in writers' festivals, and other topics relating to her literary career.

File consists of annotated partial drafts of The Dead Celebrities Club.

File pertains to Swan's research for her book, The Dead Celebrities Club, including an e-mail interviews/correspondence with Charlie Shrem while he was in prison and her visit to Sing Sing prison in New York State to attend a Rehabilitations Through the Arts (RTA) prisoner performance of The Wizard of Oz. Records in this file are e-mail, transcripts, a program, articles by Shrem, and news articles about the RTA program.

File consists of various annotated drafts of The Dead Celebrities Club.

Item includes notes by Swan's daughter, Samantha Haywood.

File consists of annotated drafts of The Dead Celebrities Club

Series pertains to Swan's work as an instructor at York University and her tenure process, her position as the Millennial Robarts Chair in Canadian Studies for 1999-2000, her work for the Writers' Union of Canada, and her public lectures. Records in this series include course materials, teaching proposals, official York University publications, and lecture notes.

File pertains to speaking engagements by Swan pertaining to the promotion of The Western Light in 2012 and 2013, as well as her talk at a tribute for Constance Rooke and her participation at a Mar. 2015 Trampoline Hall event. Included in the file are her speaking notes and lectures, e-mail, excerpts from the book, and research materials.

File pertains to Swan's presentation at "A Sino-Canada literary forum: literature and our environment" organized by the Confucius Institute at the University of Waterloo (25 Oct. 2014). File includes a program and the text of Swan's talk on literature and the political environment.

File consists of e-mail exchanged between Swan, Sheila Heti, Lisan Jutras and Jared Bland pertaining to Swan's essay for the Globe and Mail on the subject of the "new unromantic romantics" in literature.

Series consists of correspondence, clippings, journals, notebooks, photographs, publications, ephemera, day planners, address books and other material documenting Swan's personal life and interests, in particular her early years as a student at Havergal College, as well as files pertaining to Swan's family. Some notebooks contain notes on Swan’s writing projects as well as personal diary entries.

File consists of personal and professional correspondence, both handwritten and e-mail, sent and received by Swan. Correspondents include Nino Ricci, Margaret Atwood, Samantha Haywood, Patrick Crean, Sheila Heti and many others. Included is a publicity photograph of writer Barbara Gowdy.

File consists of two draft annotated excerpts from The Dead Celebrities Club, prepared for submission to The Walrus magazine.

File consists of annotated partial drafts of The Dead Celebrities Club.

Item is an annotated partial draft of The Dead Celebrities Club.

File consists of October 2013 annotated draft partial manuscripts.

File consists of personal and professional correspondence, both handwritten and e-mail, sent and received by Swan. Correspondents include Nino Ricci, Margaret Atwood, Samantha Haywood, Patrick Crean, Sheila Heti and many others.

Item is a letter sent to Swan from James (Jim) Clarke praising The Western Light.

File consists of e-mail exchanged between Swan, her literary agent, publisher and others pertaining to the editing, publication and promotion of The Western Light. Also included are research materials pertaining to fact-checking and promoting the novel.

File includes a project description and partial drafts of The Dead Celebrities Club.

File includes a letter from the Ontario Arts Council informing Swan of her grant for this project, which was renamed The Western Light.

File consists of The Writers' Union of Canada information sheets/promotional materials regarding Prime Minister Stephen Harper's support of the arts in Canada, as well as a creative writing piece about Harper by one of Swan's students and an agenda and related e-mail pertaining to a writers' protest, "The awakening", to be held in Ottawa at the Parliament buildings. Also included in the file is a document entitled "Thoughts towards a writer's ten digital commandments" and an e-mail from Susan Kersten regarding digital publishing.

File consists of Swan's e-mail, including e-mail pertaining to efforts to sell The Hockey Killer, letters, greeting cards and drafts of her story "Death at the Hotel Chelsea". Also included in the file is e-mail exchanged between Swan and Catherine Gildiner in 2004-2005, student feedback forms about Swan's creative writing teaching at Humber College, and a photograph of Swan taken in Toronto (Oct. 2009).

Item is an unpublished paper by Russell Brown featuring commentary on Swan's book, The Biggest Modern Woman of the World.

Item is a promotional chapbook published by Patrick Crean and Somerville House Publishing consisting of excerpts from Swan's novel.

File consists of a paper by Russell Morton Brown entitled "Robert Kroetsch, Marshall McLuhan, and Canada's prairie postmodernism: the Aberhart effect" and an accompanying e-mail sent to Patrick Crean.

Item is an unpublished paper by Russell Brown featuring commentary on Swan's book, The Biggest Modern Woman of the World.

File consists of e-mail, greeting cards and letters pertaining to Swan's personal life, her writing career, her creative writing teaching and her involvement with the Writers' Union of Canada.

Item is a promotional chapbook published by Patrick Crean and Somerville House Publishing consisting of excerpts from Swan's novel.

Notebook includes loose photograph of Swan with her daughter, Samantha Haywood.

Item is an annotated partial manuscript of what would become Swan's novel The Western Light.

Item is a short excerpt from a manuscript of what would become Swan's novel The Western Light, accompanied by research material.

Item is an annotated partial manuscript of what would become Swan's novel The Western Light.

File pertains to Swan's year as chair of the Union (2007-2008).

Item is a short excerpt from a manuscript of what would become Swan's novel The Western Light, accompanied by research material.

File consists of a list of cuts by the Canadian federal government since 1 Apr. 2008 prepared by the Canadian Conference of the Arts, e-mail sent by Swan and others regarding a town hall about cuts to cultural and heritage granting programs, and an essay by Swan entitled "Tips for the emerging writer Stephen Harper".