Alissa York
Alissa York
Alissa York’s internationally acclaimed novels include Effigy (shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize), Fauna and The Naturalist (winner of the Canadian Authors Association Award for Fiction). Her new novel, Far Cry, came out in March 2023. Stories from Alissa’s short fiction collection, Any Given Power, have won the Journey Prize and the Bronwen Wallace Award. Her essays and articles have appeared in The Guardian, Brick magazine and elsewhere. In 2018, she won the Writers’ Trust Engel Findley Award for a Writer in Mid-Career. Alissa has lived all over Canada and now makes her home in Toronto, where she teaches at the Humber School for Writers.
Alissa York is published by Random House Of Canada
Upcoming Events
December 05, 2023
at 7pm
Conversation
By The Lake Book Club Featuring Alissa York
Alissa York
December 05, 2023 at 7pm
September 25, 2023
at 5:30pm
Workshop
In Praise of Process
Alissa York
September 25, 2023 at 5:30pm
September 25, 2022
at 3pm
TIFA Event
Unforgettable: Engaging Readers Through the Power of the Particular, with Alissa York
Alissa York
September 25, 2022 at 3pm
October 21, 2021
at 4pm
Presentation
Humber Masterclass: A Certain Eye, A Certain Mind: Getting Clear on Point of View with Alissa York
Alissa York
October 21, 2021 at 4pm
November 01, 2020
at 4pm
TIFA Event
Humber College Masterclass: What You (Need to) Know – The Art of Literary Research
Alissa York
November 01, 2020 at 4pm