- 2013-041/018(01)
- File
- 2004-2006
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Part of Susan Swan fonds
"Room 829: a ghost story at the Hotel Chelsea" : manuscripts
Part of Susan Swan fonds
"Death at the Hotel Chelsea" : draft manuscripts
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".
Black Ships : "The Lost Quest" drafts with revisions
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Black Ships : drafts with revisions
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Articles, poems, unpublished. Exchanges with Samantha Bernstein, student
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Black Ships : "Prodigals" drafts and revisions
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Evaluation unmarked. Evaluations of Senior Prose Workshop
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Student work and evaluations from HUMA 4635 - Mixed Genre Workshop
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Black Ships : "The Return" drafts and revisions
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Black Ships : early Feb drafts
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Pop Rules : Notes on The Age of Measurement drafts and research notes
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Writers' Union of Canada correspondence and resource materials
Part of Susan Swan fonds
File pertains to Swan's year as chair of the Union (2007-2008).
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Federal funding for the arts : e-mail and statistics
Part of Susan Swan fonds
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".
Writers' Union of Canada correspondence and resource materials
Part of Susan Swan fonds
File pertains to Swan's year as chair of the Union (2007-2008).
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Part of Susan Swan fonds
"Nobody calls them servants any more" and "The interim man" : manuscripts
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Part of Susan Swan fonds
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).
E-mail and paper : Russell Morton Brown
Part of Susan Swan fonds
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.
"Death at the Hotel Chelsea" : draft manuscripts
Part of Susan Swan fonds
"The Hockey Killer" : annotated manuscripts
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Part of Susan Swan fonds
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.
Old drafts : DCC [Dead Celebrities Club]
Part of Susan Swan fonds
File includes a project description and partial drafts of The Dead Celebrities Club.
Writers' Coalition Program benefits plan : correspondence and resource materials
Part of Susan Swan fonds
"The Dead Celebrities Club" : draft partial manuscripts : November 1, 2011
Part of Susan Swan fonds
"Black Ships" : annotated manuscripts
Part of Susan Swan fonds
File includes a letter from the Ontario Arts Council informing Swan of her grant for this project, which was renamed The Western Light.
Writers' Union 2007 : fight vs. Harper
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.
E-mail relating to "The Western Light"
Part of Susan Swan fonds
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.
Part of Susan Swan fonds
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. Included is a publicity photograph of writer Barbara Gowdy.
"The Dead Celebrities Club" : Walrus submission : March 18, 2013
Part of Susan Swan fonds
File consists of two draft annotated excerpts from The Dead Celebrities Club, prepared for submission to The Walrus magazine.
A third person take on "The Dead Celebrities Club" : Feb. 27, 2013
Part of Susan Swan fonds
File consists of annotated partial drafts of The Dead Celebrities Club.
Fall versions of DCC [Dead Celebrities Club] : 2013
Part of Susan Swan fonds
File consists of October 2013 annotated draft partial manuscripts.
"The Dead Celebrities Club" : draft partial manuscripts
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Part of Susan Swan fonds
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.
Talk by Swan to Chinese writers at University of Waterloo, 2014
Part of Susan Swan fonds
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.
E-mail about Globe and Mail essay
Part of Susan Swan fonds
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.
Visit to Sing Sing and interviews with Charlie Shrem, a jailed Bitcoin operator : 2015
Part of Susan Swan fonds
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.
Old drafts of DCC [Dead Celebrities Club] : some in Win Harper's voice
Part of Susan Swan fonds
File consists of various annotated drafts of The Dead Celebrities Club.
Old drafts of the DCC [Dead Celebrities Club]
Part of Susan Swan fonds
File consists of annotated drafts of The Dead Celebrities Club
Part of Susan Swan fonds
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.
Old drafts of "The Dead Celebrities Club"
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Part of Susan Swan fonds
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.
Early drafts of "The Dead Celebrities Club"
Part of Susan Swan fonds
File consists of annotated partial drafts of The Dead Celebrities Club.
Part of Susan Swan fonds
E-mail, proposals about "Sexual Gothic" or "The Dead Celebrities Club"
Part of Susan Swan fonds
File consists of e-mail sent and received by Swan pertaining to research for her book, The Dead Celebrities Club, performances of her theatre project, "Heroines of the Sexual Gothic", her participation in writers' festivals, and other topics relating to her literary career.
Part of Susan Swan fonds
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.
Part of Susan Swan fonds
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.
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Academic: "Eating your words", a project for secondary school students
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Academic: Teaching proposals, and letters of response re: teaching creative writing
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Course proposal odds + sods / York teaching
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Lecture on appropriation of voice
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Notebooks, Biggest Modern Woman
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Articles by Swan for "The McGill Scene", late 1960's
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Articles by Swan for The Toronto Telegram
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Tallest Man: comments, revisions
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Tallest Man: Revisions, working copies
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Tallest Man, "Saint Kim", "The Man Doll"
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Saint Kim, The Man Doll, "Jackie the Ripper", Dubarry, "Bill and Jane" (Tallest Man)
Part of Susan Swan fonds
"Canadian Men": research, rough drafts
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Articles on collaborative performance art with Louise Garfield
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Unfit: notes, play proposal, promo beget, correspondence
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Unfit: promotion, business diary, correspondence, bills, promotion list
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Unfit: National Library of Canada info and correspondence
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Unfit: rough drafts with revisions and notes
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Unfit: promo info, cover proofs
Part of Susan Swan fonds
BMW: research on period tonics and remedies
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Part of Susan Swan fonds
BMW: research including maps of the U.K., Swan genealogy, farming, tonics, Seville
Part of Susan Swan fonds
BMW: research incl. England, diabetes
Part of Susan Swan fonds
BMW: research on period setting (Dickens excerpts).
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Part of Susan Swan fonds
GG: sailing race details with map
Part of Susan Swan fonds
GG: research incl. hallucinogens, pianos
Part of Susan Swan fonds