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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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".

"Black Ships" : from March 2008

Item is a short excerpt from a manuscript of what would become Swan's novel The Western Light, accompanied by research material.

Miscellaneous correspondence

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.

"Black Ships" : from March 2008

Item is a short excerpt from a manuscript of what would become Swan's novel The Western Light, accompanied by research material.

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