'Waves' was a literary magazine originally produced at York University (1972-1980), that grew out of a poetry workshop conducted by Irving Layton at the university in the 1970-1971 school year. The journal was devoted to prose and poetry, and was issued three times a year. The editor of 'Waves,' Bernice Lever, also served as office and business manager, circulation manager, and eventually became owner of 'Waves,' in 1976. From 1980 until it ceased publication in 1987, 'Waves' was produced in her home.
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The fonds consists of records pertaining to the administration and publication of the literary magazine "Waves".
The fonds comprises the following accessions: 1976-026, 1989-008, 2009-040. Further accruals are expected.
2002/04/08 Awaiting review by the Data Collection Archivist
2003/05/07 Shannon MacDonald. Added URL for online finding aid. Updated wording in access restrictions, accruals.
2014/07/22 Last updated
2018/11/15 KCP. Uploaded legacy finding aid.
2018/04/03 KCP: added GMD, finding aid note, and published
2019/04/25 J. Grant. Addition of accession 2009-040.
No restrictions on access.
File list for early accessions are appended as a PDF document.
Published
File consists of correspondence exchanged between Bernice Lever and Margaret Laurence regarding a 24 Nov. 1974 interview conducted by Lever with Laurence and the editing of the interview transcript, later published in literary journals Waves and Alive. Included is the interview transcript annotated with edit notes by Laurence as well as Lever's interview questions, correspondence from editors of Alive and the Journal of Canadian Fiction, character maps and lists made by Lever pertaining to Laurence's novels, and a selection of correspondence and ephemera pertaining to Lever's time as a student at York University, including a copy of an essay critique by her instructor, Barry Callaghan.
The audio recording of the interview documented in this file is also part of the fonds and is located in box 1989-008/034.
Published
File consists of items accumulated by Bernice Lever pertaining to Waves, including newspaper articles, a Waves Literary Tri-Annual poster featuring illustrations of prominent Canadian poets/writers, an invitation to the Waves 10-year anniversary in 1981, a letter from Toronto Life poetry editor Mary di Michele, a program for a Waves poetry reading at Stong College, a Harbourfront literary reading notice, a Canadian Periodical Publishers' Association brochure featuring Waves and other Canadian literary journals, and a copy of "I Side Up: introduced by Irving Layton" (1971).