York University Libraries Clara Thomas Archives & Special Collections

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.

Book : Rita's closet / Keith Morgan with Ruth Kron Sigal

2012-024/008(04)
Item
2008

Part of Alison Pick fonds

Book : Sleeping funny / Miranda Hill [preview]

2012-024/008(06)
Item
2012

Part of Alison Pick fonds

"Between Gods" : annotated draft manuscript : Degan's comments

2017-024/004(03)
Item
[2013?]

Part of Alison Pick fonds

Bleaker House / Nell Stevens

2017-024/005(04)
Item
2017

Part of Alison Pick fonds

Item is a bound galley for this novel, sent to Pick from the publisher, Doubleday.

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".

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.

International Festival of Authors writing workshop materials

2017-024/006(05)
File
2016

Part of Alison Pick fonds

File consists of e-mail, instructions and writing samples pertaining to Pick's role as a faculty member for an International Festival of Authors workshop held in October 2016.

The jungle south of the mountain : a novel / Andrew Westoll

2017-024/006(07)
Item
[ca. 2016]

Part of Alison Pick fonds

Item consists of the uncorrected page proofs for this novel, accompanied by a note from HarperCollins editor Jane Warren, sent to Pick to read.

Once again : more stories and recollections / by John Freund

2017-024/006(12)
Item
1 Nov. 2007

Part of Alison Pick fonds

Item is a self-published book by Holocaust survivor John Freund.

School of velocity / Eric Beck Rubin

2017-024/007(03)
Item
2016

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.

SLS Montreal fiction workshop : notes and writing samples

2017-024/007(04)
File
Feb. 2015

Part of Alison Pick fonds

File pertains to a writing workshop taught by Pick at Concordia University in Montreal.

"Strangers with the Same Dream" : annotated partial draft manuscript

2017-024/008(05)
Item
[2016?]

Part of Alison Pick fonds

"Strangers with the Same Dream" : annotated partial draft manuscript

2017-024/008(06)
Item
[ca. 2016]

Part of Alison Pick fonds

"Strangers with the Same Dream" : annotated partial draft manuscript

2017-024/008(08)
Item
[ca. Oct. 2016]

Part of Alison Pick fonds

"Strangers with the Same Dream" : big MacDowell edit : annotated draft manuscript

2017-024/008(11)
Item
Dec. 2016

Part of Alison Pick fonds

"Strangers with the Same Dream" : chapter six : annotated draft manuscript

2017-024/009(08)
Item
[ca. 2016]

Part of Alison Pick fonds

"Strangers with the Same Dream" : chapter seven : annotated draft manuscript

2017-024/009(09)
Item
[ca. 2016]

Part of Alison Pick fonds

"Strangers with the Same Dream" : draft manuscript with highlighting by Lynn Henry

2017-024/009(13)
Item
Jan. 2017

Part of Alison Pick fonds

"Strangers with the Same Dream" : part one : annotated draft manuscript

2017-024/010(04)
Item
Dec. 2016

Part of Alison Pick fonds

"Strangers with the Same Dream" : part one : draft manuscript

2017-024/010(07)
Item
[ca. 2016]

Part of Alison Pick fonds

"Strangers with the Same Dream" : parts one and three : annotated draft manuscripts

2017-024/010(08)
File
[ca. 2015-2016]

Part of Alison Pick fonds

"Strangers with the Same Dream" : part two : annotated draft manuscript

2017-024/010(10)
Item
Oct. 2016

Part of Alison Pick fonds

"Strangers with the Same Dream" : part three : draft manuscript

2017-024/011(10)
Item
[ca. 2016]

Part of Alison Pick fonds

"Strangers with the Same Dream" : part three : draft manuscript annotated by Lynn Henry

2017-024/011(11)
Item
2016

Part of Alison Pick fonds

"Strangers with the Same Dream" : partial draft manuscript

2017-024/012(01)
Item
[ca. 2016]

Part of Alison Pick fonds

"Strangers with the Same Dream" : research materials

2017-024/012(03)
File
2010-2011

Part of Alison Pick fonds

File consists of biographical information about Marc Chagall and his wife Bella Rosenfeld and a paper entitled "A Survey of the First Century of Jewish Women Artists: The Impact of Four Upheavals" by Shulamit Reinharz.

"Strangers with the Same Dream" : research materials

2017-024/012(04)
File
[ca. 2016]

Part of Alison Pick fonds

File consists of journal articles and book chapters pertaining to Pick's research for "Strangers with the Same Dream".

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

"To do" lists

2010-057/015(11)
File
Nov. 2010

Part of Alison Pick fonds

Associazione Donne Ebree d'Italia : certificate

2014-039/016(05)
Item
12 Nov. 2012

Part of Alison Pick fonds

Item is an award certificate issued to Pick for the Italian translation of "Far to Go".

Banff 2014 : "Writing with style" program materials

2014-039/016(06)
File
2014

Part of Alison Pick fonds

Pick was an instructor at this 10-day workshop held at the Banff Centre for the Arts.

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".

Newspaper articles about Alison Pick

2014-039/016(13)
File
2013

Part of Alison Pick fonds

Winnipeg International Writers Festival : Thin Air 2014 programme

2014-039/017(03)
Item
Sept. 2014

Part of Alison Pick fonds

Tea and books, special edition: author visit with Alison Pick

2012-024/001(03)
File
1 Feb. 2011

Part of Alison Pick fonds

The eh list -- author series, Toronto public library : program guide : letter

2012-024/001(04)
File
2011

Part of Alison Pick fonds

RBC Bronwen Wallace award presentation host remarks : itinerary

2012-024/001(07)
File
5 Apr. 2011

Part of Alison Pick fonds

GritLit : correspondence : program guide : map of Hamilton : name tag : H magazine presents Hamilton's creative monthly [march 2011]

2012-024/001(08)
File
7-10 Apr. 2011

Part of Alison Pick fonds

Elora writers festival

2012-024/001(10)
File
29 May 2011

Part of Alison Pick fonds

Canadian Jewish book award -- Koffler centre of the arts : correspondence : promotional material : presentation notes : program guide : name tag

2012-024/001(11)
File
30 May 2011

Part of Alison Pick fonds

Parry Sound books: Alison Pick will read from her novel "Far to Go" : promotional flyer : lecture notes in typescript

2012-024/001(16)
File
21 Sept. 2011

Part of Alison Pick fonds

Campus author reception, University of Guelph : pamphlet : letters

2012-024/001(18)
File
27 Oct. 2011

Part of Alison Pick fonds

Festival of Jewish books & authors : correspondence : program guide : travel arrangements & itinerary : promotional bookmark

2012-024/002(03)
File
7-20 Nov. 2011

Part of Alison Pick fonds

Jewish book festival at the Jewish community centre of greater Vancouver : program guide : correspondence

2012-024/002(04)
File
26 Nov. - 1 Dec. 2011

Part of Alison Pick fonds

16th annual Mandell JCC Hantford Jewish film festival

2012-024/002(11)
File
17-27 Mar. 2012

Part of Alison Pick fonds

Writers and friends : program guide : name tag

2012-024/002(14)
File
15 Apr. 2012

Part of Alison Pick fonds

Holocaust memorial service

2012-024/002(15)
File
18 Apr. 2012

Part of Alison Pick fonds

Delving into the past / Anne-Marie Bissada, in the Annex gleaner, 17:2 (June 2011), 12

2012-024/003(05)
File
2011

Part of Alison Pick fonds

Writer discovers Jewish heritage : novelist Alison Pick to speak at Holocaust memorial service / Joan Sullivan, in the Telegram, D1

2012-024/003(07)
File
7 Apr. 2012

Part of Alison Pick fonds

In search of the past / Micah Toub, in Quill and quire, 76:7 (September 2010), 14-16

2012-024/003(10)
File
2010

Part of Alison Pick fonds

University of Guelph grad news, in The Portico: University of Guelph magazine for alumni and friends, summer 2011, 28-35

2012-024/003(11)
File
2011

Part of Alison Pick fonds

Literary lottery, [synopsis of] "Far to Go", in Chatelaine, 169

2012-024/003(14)
File
Nov. 2011

Part of Alison Pick fonds

"Far to Go" [synopsis] - Alison Pick, in Anansi, granta, Portobello, Fall 2011 / Winter 2012, pages 38-39 : letter from Sarah MacLachlan, president and publisher, House of Anansi press

2012-024/004(05)
File
2011-2012

Part of Alison Pick fonds

Alison Pick '94 -- Internationally acclaimed author, in Grove news, winter 2012, 20 : letter from Sarah J. McMahon [CEO LCS foundation]

2012-024/004(07)
File
2012

Part of Alison Pick fonds

Canadian passports [2]

2012-024/007(10)
File
1992-1997, 2004-2009

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

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.

Evaluation forms and party invitation

2017-024/012(18)
File
[ca. 1995]

Part of Alison Pick fonds

File consists of evaluations of Pick's work as a camp counsellor and an invitation to her 21st birthday party.

Gananoque Literary Festival materials

2017-024/013(01)
File
2016

Part of Alison Pick fonds

File consists of correspondence, a program and a nametag pertaining to Pick's participation in this event.

Grit Lit materials

2017-024/013(02)
File
Apr. 2015

Part of Alison Pick fonds

File consists correspondence, a program and a nametag pertaining to Pick's participation in this event.

International Festival of Authors program, invitation and name tag

2017-024/013(05)
File
2014

Part of Alison Pick fonds

Song written by faculty at Sage Hill Writing Experience

2017-024/013(13)
Item
July 2015

Part of Alison Pick fonds

"Between Gods" : Cote Saint-Luc Reads book of the month poster

2017-024/014(03)
Item
2015

Part of Alison Pick fonds

Item is a poster from the Cote Saint-Luc Public Library announcing "Between Gods" as their September 2015 book of the month and a reading by Pick on 22 Oct. 2015.

Photographs of canoe trip with Sue Sinclair and Liz Newberry in northern Ontario

2010-057/016(06)
File
[2003?]

Part of Alison Pick fonds

Photographs taken at the Carlton Trail Guest Ranch while writing "The Sweet Edge"

2010-057/016(07)
File
2003

Part of Alison Pick fonds

Publications

S00499
Series
1999-2010

Part of Alison Pick fonds

Series consists of serial publications in which Alison Pick's poetry and short fiction were published between 1999 and 2010. These publications include "The New Quarterly," "The Fiddlehead," "Arc," "Fireweed," "Contemporary Verse 2," "Exile," "Prairie Fire," and others.

The new quarterly : new directions in Canadian writing (vol. XIX, no. 3)