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  • Armstrong, N. Patricia (Writer, Genealogy) (Bio)
  • Cappa, Maurus (Website Admin) (Bio)
  • Chaudhuri, Prad
  • Dick, Heather (Author, Playwright) (Bio)
  • Edelstein, Fran
  • Hogeterp, Jake (Writer, Editor) (Bio)
  • Jones, Mark (APCi) (Bio)
  • Kanu, Fatmatta R. (Author, Historian) (Bio)
  • Marchelletta, Maria** President (Bio)
  • Nobel, Barb (Bio)
  • Stern, Reva (Writer/Editor/Director) (Bio)

Breakfast Meeting, Sept 20, 2025

George Elliott Clarke, OC, ONS, FRCGS, PhD, LLD 

A revered poet, writer, and scholar, George Elliott Clarke was born in Windsor, Nova
Scotia, near the Black Loyalist- and Black Refugee-settled community of Three Mile
Plains, in 1960. A member of the Eastern Woodland Métis Nation Nova Scotia, he’s of
Indigenous admixture—both matrilineal (Cherokee) and (likely) patrilineal (Mi’kmaq).
A graduate of the University of Waterloo (B.A., Hons.,1984), Dalhousie University
(M.A., 1989), and Queen’s University (Ph.D., 1993), Clarke is now the inaugural E.J.
Pratt Professor of Canadian Literature at the University of Toronto.
An Assistant Professor of English and Canadian Studies at Duke University, North
Carolina, 1994-1999, Clarke also served as the Seagrams Visiting Chair in Canadian
Studies at McGill University, 1998-1999, and as a Noted Scholar at the University of
British Columbia (2002) and as a Visiting Scholar at Mount Allison University (2005),
and as the William Lyon Mackenzie King Visiting Professor in Canadian Studies at
Harvard University (2013-14).
He has also worked as a researcher (Ontario Provincial Parliament, 1982-83), editor
(Imprint, University of Waterloo, 1984-85, and The Rap, Halifax, NS, 1985-87), social
worker (Black United Front of Nova Scotia, 1985-86), parliamentary aide (House of
Commons, 1987-91), and newspaper columnist (The Daily News, Halifax, NS, 1988-89,
and The Halifax Herald, Halifax, NS, 1992-2016).
He lives in Toronto, Ontario, but he also owns land in Nova Scotia. He coined the terms
Africadia/Africadian and he has pioneered the study of African-Canadian literature.
His many honours include
the Portia White Prize for Artistic Achievement (1998),
Governor-General’s Award for Poetry (2001),
the National Magazine Gold Medal for Poetry (2001),
the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Achievement Award (2004),
the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Fellowship Prize (2005-08),
the Dartmouth Book Award for Fiction (2006),
the Eric Hoffer Book Award for Poetry (U.S. 2009),
establishment of the George Elliott Clarke International Scholarship at Duke University
(2018),
appointment to the Order of Nova Scotia (2006),
appointment to the Order of Canada at the rank of Officer (2008),
appointment as Poet Laureate of the City of Toronto (2012-15),
appointment as Parliamentary [National] Poet Laureate (2016-17),
appointment as a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society (2017),

2024-25 WEN Board



At the Annual General Meeting in July, 2024, the new WEN Board was nominated to serve beginning September, 2024.
President            Maria Marchelletta
Vice-President       Jasmine Jackman
Secretary            Geetaa Sharma
Treasurer            Maurus Cappa
Membership Coord     Anna Stitski
Breakfast Coord      Anna Stitski
Director at Large    Aviva Mayers
Director at Large    Zohra Zoberi

Thelma Wheatley Launches Her Latest Novel

The Girls of Priory Hall

New young naïve teacher, Isla Owen, is drawn into a passionate affair with an older experienced woman, sixty year-old Miss Annersley, the administrator of Priory Hall School for Girls, “run on English lines” in the Eastern Townships of Quebec Province in the mid-1960’s.
Isla’s naïve illusions about boarding school life are based on the school-girl stories of her youth and contrast with her poor working-class background in England. They are part of her deep attraction for Miss Annersley, against the back-drop of a “real” boarding-school.
When Isla and her lover are accidentally outed the story comes to a powerful horrifying climax.

Available in paperback on Amazon.

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