York University Libraries Clara Thomas Archives & Special Collections

Item is a commemorative 2009 calendar from this authors' festival held in the Czech Republic in 2008, a year in which writers from Canada were invited to attend, including Pick. Item includes a photo of Pick at the festival.

McClelland and Stewart : royalty statement

2012-024/004(11)
Item
1 July - 31 Dec. 2011

Part of Alison Pick fonds

Lost in September : a novel / Kathleen Winter

2017-024/006(08)
Item
20 Apr. 2017

Part of Alison Pick fonds

Item consists of page proofs for this novel, sent to Pick to read.

Lost in September : a novel / Kathleen Winter

2017-024/006(09)
Item
2017

Part of Alison Pick fonds

Item is a bound uncorrected proof for this novel, sent to Pick from Penguin-Random House Canada publicity manager Shona Cook.

Lit archive

2012-024/007(26)
Item
2001-2010

Part of Alison Pick fonds

Item is a DVD consisting of Pick's personal photographs, e-mail, business correspondence, grant application materials, manuscript drafts and poems, reviews, invoices, and article drafts.

L'enfant du Jeudi : uncorrected proofs

2014-039/013(04)
Item
8 Aug. 2012

Part of Alison Pick fonds

Item is the French language version of Pick's novel "Far to Go", translated by Sophie Voillot.

L'enfant du Jeudi : promotional bookmark

2014-039/016(11)
Item
2012

Part of Alison Pick fonds

Item pertains to the French-language publication of Pick's novel "Far to Go" by L'Editions du Boreal in 2012.

Landing gear / Kate Pullinger

2014-039/015(01)
Item
Dec. 2013

Part of Alison Pick fonds

Item is an uncorrected proof and advance reading copy of this novel by Kate Pullinger accompanied by a letter from her Doubleday Canada editor Nita Pronovost.

J.I. Segal Award certificate

2017-024/013(07)
Item
15 Nov. 2016

Part of Alison Pick fonds

Item is a certificate award for English non-fiction on a Jewish theme, issued to Pick by the J.I. Segal Foundation and the Jewish Public Library for "Between Gods".

International Festival of Authors festival guide

2014-039/016(10)
Item
Oct. 2012

Part of Alison Pick fonds

Inside Hana's suitcase : Larry Weinstein optioned "Far to Go" for film and gave me [Alison Pick] this.

2012-024/008(01)
Item
2011

Part of Alison Pick fonds

I should be in chains / Kathy Fisher

2010-057/015(09)
Item
2005

Part of Alison Pick fonds

Item is a poetry booklet inscribed to Alison Pick by the author on 15 October 2010.

Hope makes love / by Trevor Cole

2014-039/014(09)
Item
[ca. 2013]

Part of Alison Pick fonds

Item is a manuscript of this novel by Trevor Cole.

Holocaust novel : notebook 6

2010-057/009(06)
Item
Apr.-May 2007

Part of Alison Pick fonds

Holocaust novel : book #5

2010-057/009(05)
Item
Apr. 2007

Part of Alison Pick fonds

Item is a notebook.

Holocaust novel : 4

2010-057/009(04)
Item
Mar. 2007

Part of Alison Pick fonds

Item is a notebook.

Holocaust novel : 3

2010-057/009(03)
Item
Mar. 2007

Part of Alison Pick fonds

Item is a notebook.

Holocaust novel : 2

2010-057/009(02)
Item
Feb. 2007

Part of Alison Pick fonds

Item is a notebook.

Holocaust novel : 1

2010-057/009(01)
Item
Jan.-Feb. 2007

Part of Alison Pick fonds

Item is a notebook.

Holocaust book : 4

2010-057/008(06)
Item
Mar. 2007

Part of Alison Pick fonds

Item is a notebook.

Helen and Stan Vine Canadian Jewish Book Awards : Beatrice and Martin Fischer award in fiction : plaque

2014-039/016(09)
Item
30 May 2011

Part of Alison Pick fonds

Item is a award plaque issued to Pick for her novel "Far to Go".

Grumbler '90 yearbook

2010-057/015(04)
Item
1990

Part of Alison Pick fonds

Grumbler 1991 yearbook

2010-057/015(05)
Item
1991

Part of Alison Pick fonds

Grain magazine (vol. 34, no. 4)

2010-057/017(19)
Item
2007

Part of Alison Pick fonds

Grain magazine (vol. 30, no. 1)

2010-057/017(13)
Item
2002

Part of Alison Pick fonds

From writer Iain Reid

2012-024/007(27)
Item
[20--]

Part of Alison Pick fonds

Item consists of music by an unidentified artist.

From there to here : draft short story

2014-039/013(01)
Item
2013

Part of Alison Pick fonds

Item is a draft version of an story renamed "How Christmas helped me discover - and eventually reclaim - my Jewish roots", which was published online in Tablet on 23 December 2013.

Fireweed : a feminist quarterly of writing, politics, art & culture (no. 71/72)

2010-057/017(05)
Item
2001

Part of Alison Pick fonds

Fiction notebook

2010-057/008(02)
Item
2000

Part of Alison Pick fonds

Fiction notebook

2010-057/008(03)
Item
Jan.-Apr. 2001

Part of Alison Pick fonds

"Far to Go", [paperback] Anansi press

2012-024/003(01)
Item
2010

Part of Alison Pick fonds

"Far to Go" : UK edition : edited version

2012-024/004(17)
Item
[201-]

Part of Alison Pick fonds

"Far to Go" : part four -- kindertransport

2012-024/005(06)
Item
[201-?]

Part of Alison Pick fonds

"Far to Go" : note from Rogers, Coledridge & White Ltd regarding Italian edition of "Far to Go"

2012-024/004(20)
Item
[201-]

Part of Alison Pick fonds

"Far to Go" : letter to editor, promoting "Far to Go"

2012-024/004(19)
Item
[201-]

Part of Alison Pick fonds

"Far to Go" : Headline publishing group [UK publisher of "Far to Go"] : letter from Mary-Anne Harrington

2012-024/004(14)
Item
23 Feb. 2011

Part of Alison Pick fonds

"Far to Go" : Alison Pick's UK blog tour : promotional notice

2012-024/004(16)
Item
[201-]

Part of Alison Pick fonds

"Far to Go" -- advanced reading copy, Anansi press

2012-024/002(22)
Item
2010

Part of Alison Pick fonds

Falling in love with poetry / edited by Kim Jernigan

2017-024/006(03)
Item
2016

Part of Alison Pick fonds

Item is a copy of this anthology published by "The New Quarterly", featuring a piece by Pick entitled "Falling in Love with Poetry, or, Falling in Love with Nothing" (p. 76). Item is accompanied by a letter from Kim Jernigan.

Exile : the literary quarterly (vol. 26, no. 2)

2010-057/017(12)
Item
2002

Part of Alison Pick fonds

Event : the Douglas College review : new and established writers (vol. 31, no. 2)

2010-057/017(11)
Item
2002

Part of Alison Pick fonds

Drawing of Alison Pick

2017-024/012(16)
Item
1 May 2004

Part of Alison Pick fonds

Item is a pencil sketch of Pick in profile by Ray Roddick, drawn in St. John's, Newfoundland.

December [poem]

2012-024/002(20)
Item
2004

Part of Alison Pick fonds

Day planner

2010-057/003(14)
Item
2006

Part of Alison Pick fonds

Day planner

2010-057/004(01)
Item
2007

Part of Alison Pick fonds

Day planner

2010-057/004(02)
Item
2008

Part of Alison Pick fonds

Day planner

2010-057/003(13)
Item
2005

Part of Alison Pick fonds

Culture of memory : 32nd Annual Holocaust Education Week : programme

2014-039/016(08)
Item
Nov. 2012

Part of Alison Pick fonds

Item pertains to an event held between 1-9 November 2012 by the Sarah and Chaim Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre of the UJA Federation of Greater Toronto. Pick participated in this event with a discussion of her novel "Far to Go".

Copy-edited essay for anthology The M Word

2014-039/012(07)
Item
Nov. 2013

Part of Alison Pick fonds

Contributor release / waiver / consent : Walrus TV

2012-024/004(10)
Item
15 Dec. 2011

Part of Alison Pick fonds

Contemporary verse 2 : the Canadian journal of poetry and critical writing (vol. 29, no. 4)

2010-057/017(18)
Item
2007

Part of Alison Pick fonds

Contemporary verse 2 : the Canadian journal of poetry and critical writing (vol. 25, no. 1)

2010-057/017(10)
Item
2002

Part of Alison Pick fonds

Contemporary verse 2 : the Canadian journal of poetry and critical writing (v. 33, no. 2)

2010-057/017(27)
Item
2010

Part of Alison Pick fonds

Confessions of a fairy's daughter : growing up with a gay dad / Alison Wearing

2014-039/014(08)
Item
28 Nov. 2012

Part of Alison Pick fonds

Item is a an uncorrected proof of this memoir by Alison Wearing.

Columbia poetry review (no. 20)

2010-057/017(17)
Item
2007

Part of Alison Pick fonds

Childhood journal

2010-057/003(11)
Item
1988-1989

Part of Alison Pick fonds

Cherished moments : Prof. Tom Berman : February 25, 1934 to April 13, 2013

2017-024/012(15)
Item
[ca. 2013]

Part of Alison Pick fonds

Item is a memorial book pertaining to the life of Tom Berman, a distant relative of Pick whose experience as a Kindertransport child inspired her novel "Far to Go". A photograph of Pick and her father with Berman appears on page 22, along with Pick's remembrance of Berman.

Chalmers Arts Fellowship application

2017-024/005(07)
Item
June 2017

Part of Alison Pick fonds

Item is Pick's draft application for a Chalmers Arts Fellowship from the Ontario Arts Council for a project entitled "Exploring Palestine and Israel as a Socially Conscious New Jew".

CBC / Radio-Canada : contract

2012-024/004(08)
Item
23 Sept. 2011

Part of Alison Pick fonds

Caught! The story of my childhood and other sad tales / by John Freund

2017-024/005(05)
Item
[ca. 1991]

Part of Alison Pick fonds

Item is a self-published book by Holocaust survivor John Freund, inscribed to Pick by her father and possibly used as research in the writing of "Between Gods".

Carousel (no. 13)