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Susan Swan fonds File
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Selling diaries

File pertains to a diary project by Swan, Margaret Dragu and Marcella Lustig, and Swan's efforts to get a re-worked version of it published under the title, "It's not all porn". Included is correspondence exchanged between Swan, Dragu and Lustig, as well as copies of letters written by Swan to magazines regarding publication.

Selling diaries

File pertains to a diary project by Swan, Margaret Dragu and Marcella Lustig, and Swan's efforts to get a re-worked version of it published under the title, "It's not all porn". Included is correspondence exchanged between Swan, Dragu and Lustig, as well as copies of letters written by Swan to magazines regarding publication.

The estate

File pertains to the estate of Swan's father, Dalton Churchill Swan.

E-mail relating to "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.

E-mail and greeting cards

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.

E-mail about Globe and Mail essay

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.

E-mail : Natalee Caple

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.

Visit to Sing Sing and interviews with Charlie Shrem, a jailed Bitcoin operator : 2015

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.

Greeting cards

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.

Miscellaneous correspondence

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.

2010 e-mails & work on story

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).

E-mail and paper : Russell Morton Brown

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.

Talks on "The Western Light"

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.

Writers' Union 2007 : fight vs. Harper

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.

Talk by Swan to Chinese writers at University of Waterloo, 2014

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.

Federal funding for the arts : e-mail and statistics

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".

Story about the Thomas Wolfe suite at the Chelsea Hotel : drafts

File consists of notes, a pitch and annotated drafts by Swan about her stay in the Thomas Wolfe suite at the Chelsea Hotel. Also included in the file is a clipping of an article by Swan published in the National Post about Thomas Wolfe and her father (18 June 2005).

"Death at the Hotel Chelsea" : draft manuscripts

File also includes e-mail exchanged with one of Swan's students, Emiko Hsuen, pertaining to Swan's questions about Japanese culture for this story, e-mail regarding research about the Chelsea Hotel, a copy of a paper entitled "Thomas Wolfe's German girlfriend: some further thoughts on Thea Voelcker" by Lawrence D. Stokes, and Thomas Wolfe Society publications entitled "Thomas Wolfe's friendship with Henry Volkening: the documents" and "The proceedings and membership list of the Thomas Wolfe Society: the twenty-seventh annual meeting, Portland, Maine, May 27-29, 2005".

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