- 2014-010
- Accession
- 1986-2013
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
Early unfinished version of "Sweet daughter of the market" (also called "House of invisible women")
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
"Come, cold river" : some e-mails and two different copies
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
Fonds consists of records pertaining to the personal and professional activities of Karen Connelly. These records include manuscripts, in various states of development, for Connelly’s published writing, particularly her books "One room in a castle" (1995), "The border surrounds us" (2000), “The lizard cage” (2005), and “Burmese lessons” (2009), as well as draft poems and stories. Journals from Connelly’s travels through Asia in the mid-to-late 1990s are also part of the fonds , as are personal journals kept between 1984 and 2011, correspondence sent and received, travel and personal photographs, literary memorabilia, and notes for Connelly’s speaking engagements and lectures.
Connelly, Karen, 1969-
Personal and business correspondence : letters and cards
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
File includes a note to Connelly from Margaret Atwood.
Edits of Sonia Saikaley's "Snowflakes on red rooftops"
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
Grant applications : rejections
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
Various versions of 2013 poetry book
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
File consists of poems to be published in 2013 by Quattro Books, titled "Come cold river".
Magnolia : a journal of women's literature, volume I : draft poems and stories
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
File consists of e-mail correspondence and copies of draft poems and short stories to be published in this anthology, guest-edited by Connelly.
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
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.
Olte il confine : viaggio, scrittura e alterita' nell'opera di Karen Connelly / Anna Musillo
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
File consists of a thesis written by Musillo about Connelly's work and includes a from Musillo to Connelly and Connelly's contextual notes about the thesis.
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
File consists of an e-mail written by Connelly to Foley and an epilogue by Foley, edited by Connelly.
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
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".
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
"Burmese lessons" : copy-edited master manuscript and style sheet
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
First complete draft of "Oh Canada crack my heart"
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
File consists of an untitled draft novel by Mackay, edited and annotated by Connelly.
Notes from lectures, talks, etc.
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
File includes media schedules for Connelly's promotion of "Burmese lessons" in 2009.
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
"Burmese lessons" : rev. pages #2
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
"Burmese lessons" : rev. pages #1
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
Poems for new book (and old poems too)
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
File includes correspondence pertaining to the publication of "The lizard cage" and Connelly's Orange Broadband Prize for New Writers win in 2007.
The lizard cage / by David Vainola ; based on the novel "The lizard cage" by Karen Connelly
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
Screenplay has been edited and annotated by Connelly in November 2009.
The lizard cage / by David Vainola ; based on the novel "The lizard cage" by Karen Connelly
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
File consists of a script produced by Sienna Films, annotated by Connelly.
"Burmese lessons" : notebook : fall '07 - winter '08
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
Burmese sex workers : interview transcripts and background materials
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
"Burmese lessons" : pre-edit manuscript for Random House Canada
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
"Burmese lessons" : manuscript : first major pass, Anne Collins' notes
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
"Burmese lessons" : cover mock-ups
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
"Burmese lessons" : pre-edit manuscript for Random House Canada
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
"Burmese lessons" : manuscript : first major pass, Anne Collins' notes
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
File pertains to a roundtable held at Villa Gillet in France, at which Connelly presented a talk entitled "Lustful reading vs. an ocean of shit". A French translation of this text is included in the file, as are the English translations of the texts of other presenters (Pedro Rosa Mendes, Jean-Yves Cendrey).
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
Photographs of Karen Connelly as well as images from her travels.
Nan A. Talese international fiction sampler : spring 2007
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
Sampler includes an excerpt from "The lizard cage".
"Burmese lessons" : draft stories
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
"The lizard cage" : cover proof
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
"Burmese lessons" : partial draft manuscript
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
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.
Examples of Karen Connelly's editing for Humber College students
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
Broken heaven, broken earth (Burmese lessons), draft
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
The lizard cage, photo placement
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
The lizard cage, copy-edited draft
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
The lizard cage, copy-edited draft
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
The lizard cage, copy-edited draft
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
The lizard cage, galleys of US edition
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
The lizard cage, galleys of US edition
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
Fan e-mail / publisher e-mail re: The lizard cage
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
The lizard cage, layouts from Nan A. Talese
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
"The lizard cage" : copy-edited manuscript
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
Early notes for "Burmese lessons"
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
Examples of Karen Connelly's editing for Humber College students
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
The lizard cage, copy-edited draft
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
The lizard cage, letter from Liz Dunall to Karen Connelly
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
The lizard cage, copy-edited draft
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
The lizard cage, galleys of US edition
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
"The lizard cage" : page proofs : 1st pass, reader's set
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
"The lizard cage" : page proofs
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
"The lizard cage" : page proofs : 2nd pass
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
"The lizard cage" : page proofs : 1st pass, author's set
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
The lizard cage, draft with Libby Oughton's comments
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
The lizard cage, Anne Collins' edit
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
The lizard cage, Anne Collins' edit
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
The lizard cage, photographs, credit lines
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
Spitaki, or home on the island, draft
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
The lizard cage, Anne Collins' edit
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
The lizard cage, Jackie Kaiser's comments
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
Correspondence from Karen Connelly to her mother
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
Memory Alley (or, it's my province and i'll cry if want to), draft
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
The lizard cage, draft with Libby Oughton's comments
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
The lizard cage, draft with Libby Oughton's comments
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
The lizard cage / notes re: changes
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
Notes for book launch at the Gladstone hotel
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
The lizard cage, Anne Collins' edit
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
The lizard cage, Anne Collins' edit
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
The lizard cage, draft with comments from Nancy Holmes
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
Notes for P.E.N. hockey game address
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
Letter from Karen Connelly to CBC Rough Cuts
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
Ms. Karen Connelly : Writing "The lizard cage" : Vancouver Institute lecture.
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
Tossed poems and early drafts of various poems
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
Part of Karen Connelly fonds
The lizard cage, Anne Collins' first edit
Part of Karen Connelly fonds