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Accession 2006-025

Accession consists of material that documents Connelly's personal and professional life and includes notes and drafts related to published and unpublished poems and short stories as well as complete drafts of her poetry collections 'Grace and poison,' 'This brighter prison,' 'The disorder of love,' and 'The small words in my body,' her travel memoirs 'One room in a castle' and 'Touch the dragon' and her novel 'The lizard cage.' It also includes personal correspondence consisting of letters received by Connelly as well as copies of letters sent by her to friends and family, which were subsequently used in the writing of her works of travel literature. The fonds includes copies of letters of received from Margaret Atwood, Timothy Findley, Dale Zieroth, Don Coles, Michael Redhill, Nino Ricci, Nancy Holmes, Libby Oughton, Silver Donald Cameron, Susan Swan and Steven Heighton, among others. It also includes Connelly's personal journals for the years 1984 to 2003 in which she documents events in her day to day life, her thoughts on literature and art, ideas and sketches for stories and poems and in which she recorded her observations based on her extensive travels through Thailand, Burma, Spain, France, Greece and Canada.

Contracts and agreements

File consists of contracts, agreements and correspondence mostly pertaining to Connelly's work as a writer-in-residence, a writing instructor and to the commissioning and publication of her writing.

Correspondence

File includes a 1988 letter to Connelly from Margaret Atwood and correspondence from Annie Dillard between 1984 and 1986.

Correspondence

File includes letters from Timothy Findley, William Whitehead and Lorna Crozier.

Correspondence

File includes correspondence pertaining to the publication of "The lizard cage" and Connelly's Orange Broadband Prize for New Writers win in 2007.

Correspondence

File includes e-mail correspondence exchanged between Connelly and Hannah McGregor, Marlene Goldman, Smaro Kamboureli and Sherene Razack, who all participated in a colloquium titled "Desire, empathy, vulnerability: representations of the 'foreign' in Canadian women's writing".

Correspondence

File includes letters written to Connelly by Timothy Findley in 1990 and 1991.

Correspondence

File includes letters of congratulations for Connelly's Governor General's Award for "Touch the dragon", published in 1994, including a letter from Timothy Findley. 1 of 2.

Correspondence

File includes letters of congratulations for Connelly's Governor General's Award for "Touch the dragon", published in 1994, including a letter from Timothy Findley. 2 of 2.

Early published work

File consists of "You put it in words", a 1986 collection of poetry and short stories published by the Commisioner of Official Languages, and an issue of "Language and society", both of which feature samples of Connelly's writing as a teenager.

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