York University Libraries Clara Thomas Archives & Special Collections

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.

Writers' Union 2007 : fight vs. Harper

2017-010/010(02)
File
2007, 2011

Part of Susan Swan fonds

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.

Notebook

2017-010/007(10)
Item
2006

Part of Susan Swan fonds

"My Father's Shoes" early draft of essay for Penguin anthology The First Man in My Life Spring 07

2008-006/001(01)
Item
Feb. - July 2006

Part of Susan Swan fonds

File includes email correspondence with editor.

Black Ships : Prologue draft version

2008-006/001(02)
Item
[2006?]

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Black Ships : Chapter X draft with revisions

2008-006/001(04)
Item
[2006 or 2007?]

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Black Ships : "The Icebox Winter" draft with revisions

2008-006/001(08)
Item
[2006 or 2007?]

Part of Susan Swan fonds

My Father's Shoes (title of short story collection for fiction category) draft with revisions

2008-006/001(09)
Item
[2006 or 2007?]

Part of Susan Swan fonds

The Great House Narrative (from Black Ships in my laptop)

2008-006/001(10)
Item
[2006 or 2007?]

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Black Ships : draft with revisions

2008-006/001(17)
Item
22 Jan. 2006

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Black Ships : original draft

2008-006/001(18)
Item
12 Sept. 2006

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Black Ships : "The Lost Quest" drafts with revisions

2008-006/001(23)
File
26 Sept. - 18 Oct. 2006

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Black Ships : new openings b, c, e

2008-006/001(26)
File
26 - 30 Oct. 2006

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Black Ships : draft with revisions

2008-006/001(33)
Item
07 Nov. 2006

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Notebook

2017-010/007(09)
Item
2006

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Notebook : July 1, 2006 - Aug. 19, 2006

2017-010/007(07)
Item
2006

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Notebook : Oct. 2, 2006 to Nov. 15, 2006

2017-010/007(08)
Item
2006

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Writers' Union of Canada correspondence and resource materials

2013-041/010(02)
File
2006-2008

Part of Susan Swan fonds

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

Evaluation unmarked. Evaluations of Senior Prose Workshop

2008-006/009(03)
File
2006-2007

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Black Ships : draft

2008-006/001(03)
Item
[2006 or 2007?]

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Black Ships : "Good Versus Evil" draft with revisions

2008-006/001(07)
Item
[2006 or 2007?]

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Black Ships : "Prodigals"

2008-006/001(11)
Item
[2006 or 2007?]

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Black Ships : "The Return" draft

2008-006/001(15)
Item
[2006 or 2007?]

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Black Ships : draft version

2008-006/001(19)
Item
13 Sept. 2006

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Black Ships : "The Lost Quest" draft with revisions

2008-006/001(21)
Item
26 Sept. 2006

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Black Ships : "The Lost Quest" drafts with revisions

2008-006/001(22)
File
26 Sept. 2006

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Black Ships : "The Letters" / "My Father's Shoes" / "The Lost Quest" drafts with revisions

2008-006/001(34)
File
09 - 17 Nov. 2006

Part of Susan Swan fonds

"Afterwards" : manuscript

2013-041/012(03)
Item
6 July 2006

Part of Susan Swan fonds

"Fatherless" : manuscript

2013-041/013(03)
Item
[ca. 2006]

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Correspondence

2008-006/009(09)
File
2006

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Day planner

2013-041/002(12)
Item
2006

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Black Ships : Chapter draft with revisions

2008-006/001(06)
Item
[2006 or 2007?]

Part of Susan Swan fonds

This has the story of John Pilkie's view of the appendix incident

2008-006/001(13)
Item
[2006 or 2007?]

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Black Ships : draft version

2008-006/001(20)
Item
16 Sept. 2006

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Black Ships : "The Lost Quest" drafts with revisions

2008-006/001(25)
File
10 Oct. 2006

Part of Susan Swan fonds

The Icebox Winter draft with revisions

2008-006/001(27)
Item
29 Oct. 2006

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Black Ships : new opening e

2008-006/001(28)
Item
31 Oct. 2006

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Black Ships : "The Lost Quest" drafts with revisions

2008-006/001(31)
File
05 Nov. 2006

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Black Ships : "The Lost Quest" draft with revisions

2008-006/001(32)
Item
06 Nov. 2006

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Black Ships : draft with revisions

2008-006/002(02)
Item
14 Dec. 2006

Part of Susan Swan fonds

"Afterwards" : manuscript

2013-041/012(02)
Item
6 June 2006

Part of Susan Swan fonds

"A Haunting at the Hotel Chelsea" : manuscript

2013-041/013(07)
Item
21 Jan. 2006

Part of Susan Swan fonds

"Room 829: a ghost story at the Hotel Chelsea" : manuscripts

2013-041/018(06)
File
Oct. 2006

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Notebook : Feb. 9, 2006 to March 19, 2006

2017-010/007(06)
Item
2006

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Black Ships : Chapter Eleven draft with revisions

2008-006/001(05)
Item
[2006 or 2007?]

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Black Ships : "Prodigals Part Three"

2008-006/001(12)
Item
[2006 or 2007?]

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Black Ships : This is a chapter that will start the new section called The Return

2008-006/001(14)
Item
2006 - 2007

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Black Ships : draft

2008-006/001(16)
Item
[2006 or 2007?]

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Black Ships : "The Lost Quest" drafts with revisions

2008-006/001(24)
File
04 Oct. 2006

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Black Ships : draft with revisions

2008-006/001(29)
Item
1 Nov. - 17 Dec. 2006

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Black Ships : draft with revisions

2008-006/001(30)
Item
03 Nov. 2006

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Black Ships : drafts with revisions

2008-006/002(01)
File
13 Dec. 2006

Part of Susan Swan fonds

"Fatherless" : manuscript

2013-041/013(02)
Item
12 July 2006

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Correspondence

2008-006/009(10)
File
2006

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Correspondence

2008-006/009(11)
File
2006

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Writers' Union of Canada correspondence and resource materials

2013-041/010(03)
File
2006-2008

Part of Susan Swan fonds

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

Constance Rooke (PEN Canada) correspondence

2005-004/004(10)
File
2005

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Outgoing mail and incoming mail

2008-006/010(04)
File
2005

Part of Susan Swan fonds

"Death at the Hotel Chelsea" : draft manuscripts

2017-010/012(01)
File
2005-2006

Part of Susan Swan fonds

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".

Susan Swan, note to self re. old version of Casanova

2005-004/004(08)
Item
Aug. 2005

Part of Susan Swan fonds

What Casanova Told Me : early Casanova drafts

2008-006/004(06)
File
[before 2005?]

Part of Susan Swan fonds

A Literary Father's day at the Chelsea Hotel

2008-006/005(06)
Item
[ca. 2005]

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Notebook

2017-010/007(04)
Item
[2005?]

Part of Susan Swan fonds

"Stupid Boys are Good to Relax With": plot synopsis for TV drama

2017-010/010(08)
Item
[ca. 2005]

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Item is a plot synopsis written by Swan with Sandra Shamas based on Swan's book of short stories.

"Chelsea Seance : Thomas Wolfe at the Chelsea"

2017-010/011(01)
Item
[ca. 2005]

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Item is a short story written by Ed Hamilton featuring Susan Swan as a character.

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

2017-010/011(02)
File
2005

Part of Susan Swan fonds

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).

Letters, photos, documents re. Minoan Crete - background for What Casanova Told Me

2008-006/004(08)
File
[before 2005?]

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Barbara Gowdy correspondence

2005-004/004(09)
File
2005

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Incoming emails / readings

2008-006/010(01)
File
2005-2006

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Day planner

2013-041/002(11)
Item
2005

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Notebook : March 18, 2005 to May 11, 2005

2017-010/007(03)
Item
2005

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Notebook : Dec. 22, 2005 - Feb. 9, 2006

2017-010/007(05)
Item
2005-2006

Part of Susan Swan fonds

"Death at the Hotel Chelsea" : draft manuscripts

2017-010/011(03)
File
2005-2006

Part of Susan Swan fonds

File consists of annotated drafts of this story by Swan from 2005 to 2006. Later drafts are entitled "A Haunting at the Hotel Chelsea".

"Death at the Hotel Chelsea" : draft manuscripts

2017-010/011(05)
File
2005-2006

Part of Susan Swan fonds

File consists of annotated drafts of this story by Swan from 2005 to 2006. Later drafts are entitled "A Haunting at the Hotel Chelsea".

What Casanova Told Me : "The Scribe's Letter", "In Her Own Backyard"

2008-006/004(07)
File
[before 2005?]

Part of Susan Swan fonds

"What Casanova Told Me" : pitch pages

2013-041/019(04)
File
2005

Part of Susan Swan fonds

"Stupid Boys are Good to Relax With": plot synopsis for TV drama

2017-010/010(08)
Item
[ca. 2005]

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Item is a plot synopsis written by Swan with Sandra Shamas based on Swan's book of short stories.

"What Casanova Told Me" : pitch pages

2013-041/019(04)
File
2005

Part of Susan Swan fonds

"Death at the Hotel Chelsea" : draft manuscripts

2017-010/011(04)
File
2005-2006

Part of Susan Swan fonds

File consists of annotated drafts of this story by Swan from 2005 to 2006. Later drafts are entitled "A Haunting at the Hotel Chelsea".

Drafts of short story "Paulie Lives" (published in Exile)

2013-041/012(11)
File
2005

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Bruce Powe

2004-017/001(22)
File
2004

Part of Susan Swan fonds

What Casanova Told Me : Emails on Casanova's grammatical tic with UofT scholar and Karen Connelly

2008-006/003(04)
File
2004

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Activism by Swan : email correspondence

2008-006/008(03)
File
2004

Part of Susan Swan fonds

c-12 Activism

2008-006/009(07)
File
2004

Part of Susan Swan fonds

2010 e-mails & work on story

2017-010/009(04)
File
2004-2005, 2009-2010

Part of Susan Swan fonds

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).

Notebook