English and Drama Events

We are excited to welcome you to our Games Café on November 5, 2025 from 4-6pm.

Call For Submissions!
“From Page to Planet: Transforming Nature Through Art” 
A Special Issue of Folia Edited by the students of ENG259 - Imagining Nature: Literature and the Environment 

What role can storytelling play in reshaping our views of nature? If words can move us, why not act on them? This special issue of Folia, “From Page to Planet: Transforming Nature through Art” explores these questions and more, inviting readers to consider how literature and the arts can shape our understanding of the environment, challenge harmful systems, and imagine new ways of living in harmony with the natural world.

In the face of climate crisis and environmental injustice, words can become a force for change, connecting fact to feeling. Mohandas Gandhi’s spinning wheel symbolized simplicity, self-sufficiency, and harmony with nature - as resistance to colonial exploitation. In the same spirit, our special issue asks how literature and the arts can become tools for re-purposing sustainable ways of living and imagining alternatives to systems that exploit both people and the earth. We seek submissions in all genres of creative and critical works that align with these goals. Submissions might include: creative writing, poetry, illustrations, photography, academic papers, artwork, reflections, and more. This issue aims to connect students with the natural world and depict how literature and the arts can connect social and ecological justice and inspire positive change. 

Submissions are due Friday, October 24th, and selected proposals will be published in the December 2025 special issue of Folia. 

Submissions may cover but are not limited to:
• Nature writing in all its forms 
• Decolonization and Environment 
• Ecological Resilience 
• Ecological and Climate Justice 
• Sustainability 
• Carbon Footprint reduction and carbon neutrality 
• Environmental futurisms (utopias and dystopias) 
• Indigenous leadership, resurgence, and environmental knowledges 
• BIPOC-led Environmental writings and justice movements 
• Land Sovereignty and Land Back movements 
• Student, youth, and emergent activism(s) and social movements across U of T, the GTA, and world. 

Students from all U of T programs as well as community members across the GTA are welcome to submit writing (up to 2000 words for writing, 50 lines for poetry) and media/art pieces (up to 3 illustrations) by the 25th of October 2025 through the following portal: HERE. Please include a short 100- word bio along with your submission. 

Looking for a way to contact us? Feel free to reach out to our corresponding Editors: Amanda Roberts Wherry at a.robertswherry@mail.utoronto.ca and Tesara Dehipola at tesara.dehipola@mail.utoronto.ca for any questions or concerns. We look forward to receiving your works

Call for Submissions!
LIA! Presents: Storytelling for Community

Across cultures and time periods, storytelling has been and continues to be one of humanity’s most powerful tools for bringing people together. Our annual theme “Present Futures” not only reminds us that the actions we take today contribute to the world we’ll live in tomorrow, but also asks the question: what can we do right now to build the communities of the future? In a time where our future feels uncertain and people seem so divided, it is now more important than ever to showcase the extent of human creativity through this timeless tradition.

This year, LIA! explores the power of storytelling in our community through a brand-new event. We seek submissions of short stories written by UTM undergrads, to be read aloud for an audience at our storytelling coffeehouse afternoon. We’ll pair readings with moderated discussion and Q&As, giving our writers the chance to speak further about their creative process. We aim to celebrate short stories as a distinct literary form with powerful uses and possibilities for helping us build diverse, just communities. All genres of short stories are welcome!

Submissions are due Friday, October 24th, and selected works will be performed at our storytelling event on November 12th from 4:00-6:00pm, in CDRS (MN3230).

Students from all programs and majors are encouraged to submit short stories up to 1400 words by 24 October 2025, using this form. Please include a short description of your story and a 100-150 word author bio with your submission.

No experience necessary! We’re hosting a special workshop with Professor Andrea Thompson to teach you some tips and tricks for performing your work live.

Please feel welcome to contact event lead Gillian Marr at gillian.marr@mail.utoronto.ca, or our appointed email correspondents Veruca Medland (veruca.medland@mail.utoronto.ca) and Emma Borca (emma.borca@mail.utoronto.ca) if you have any questions, or if there is anything that we can do to make submissions more accessible for you. 

We look forward to reading your stories!

Welcome back, English & Drama community, and an especially big welcome to new first year students joining the department! We’re so excited to meet you in September. 

We are Literature Is ALIVE!, one of 2 student groups in the Department of English & Drama (the other is our awesome English & Drama Student Society). LIA! brings students, faculty, and staff together for inspiring events about the practical career benefits, interdisciplinary connections, and real world social and environmental impacts of studying English and writing at university. You can learn more about us by following our IG (@utmliteratureisalive) and joining our mailing list. 

We’re also thrilled to invite you to our first event of the year: our annual Welcome Pizza Lunch and First-Year Advice Panel! Details below—all are welcome. 

Are you unsure where to start in your university career? Not to worry, because LIA! has the event for you! With this pizza lunch and advice panel, first years in any program have the chance to seek answers to their burning questions about campus life. Join Literature is ALIVE! and the department of English & Drama for a FREE pizza lunch with faculty, staff, and upper-year students as we discuss tips and strategies for thriving in university and discovering how to balance your personal life with your academics.  

Keep your eyes peeled for a fun raffle near the end, where we will choose two special winners amongst our participants. 

All are welcome, whether you’re a first-year student or an upper year seeking advice and excited to share your own tips!  

Date/Time: Mon. Sept. 8, 2024, 11-1PM 
Location: MN 5th Floor Patio 
🍕 Please RSVP by Fri. Sept. 5 for FREE pizza 

For more, follow us on IG and join our mailing list (link in IG bio): @utmliteratureisalive 

Please feel welcome to contact Prof. Julia Boyd (ja.boyd@mail.utoronto.ca) and LIA! (lit.is.alive.utm@gmail.com) if there is anything we can do to make this event more accessible for you. 

• Study environmental literatures across continents, movements, and time periods, from nonfiction bestsellers to climate justice video poems.
• Learn to analyze environmentally conscious literature in many genres, including memoirs, essays, novels, comic, poetry, film, and social movement documents.
• Practice your own environmental humanities writing  through your major praxis project.
• Gain editing and publishing experience through our class-edited journal special issue. 

From Understanding to Action: Living Theory for Social Engagement

Call for Papers: From Understanding to Action: Living Theory for Social Engagement 

An Online Teach-In Symposium:
June 17, 2025, 12:00-2:00pm, ZOOM

Submission Deadline:
June 4th, 2025, 11:59pm (Microsoft Form)
 

Event
From Understanding to Action: Living Theory for Social Engagement
The Black feminist scholar and educator bell hooks once said, “Thinking is an action ... the place where visions of theory and praxis come together.” From climate change to racial, economic, and gender justice—how can we use theory to both understand the world around us and engage in positive social change? How can theory deepen our practice as intellectuals, artists, and creators? We - the class of ENG280 - aim to collaborate with our fellow students across all disciplines to answer these questions and ultimately transform hooks’s words into active practice through this online teach-in symposium.

We envision this event to be a symposium of critical analysis that unites us as a community and allows us to explore how theory can be used to engage with matters of personal and global significance. We intend to use theory to break down lived experiences into parts and explanations, simultaneously building connection, communication, and viable solutions to the issues we face in society.

We welcome proposals from all disciplines for:

● short 15-20 minute teaching sessions
● individual or group performances with time for audience discussion
● readings of creative and interdisciplinary writing connected to community and social praxis (1-2 poems or 500-1,000 words of prose and an accompanying artist’s statement) (we will pair you with a discussion facilitator)
● interactive facilitated conversations on practical applications of theory
● visual or audio pieces (e.g. a 10-minute short film with discussion time, discussions of visual and multimodal artwork) 

and other formats of work that converse with the intellectual dynamism, practical applications, and real-world potentials for theory as an active tool to shape artistic and social engagement. We encourage anyone interested to apply or to reach out to us via email or Microsoft Teams.

Please upload proposals and submissions to our Microsoft Form by 11:59pm on Wednesday June 4.
Accepted presenters will be notified by June 6, and we will also have an online presentation skills workshop to help you prepare.

Please direct all questions and inquiries to our Corresponding Editor, Aysha Anwar at aysha.anwar@mail.utoronto.ca or contact via Microsoft Teams.

Black World Building Sip and Create 

• India Brown
• Princess Sarah Owusu Ansah
• Joy Pius  
• Toni Burrell
• And more!

• Whitney Buluma: Language Specialist (AI/LLM Practice), Innodata
  HBSc from UTM in Psychology and English, minor in Professional Writing & Communication, 2024

• Caitlin Hanak: Legal Counsel, International Union of Operating Engineers
  HBA from UTM in English, Political Science, and Classical Civilizations, 2018; JD from U Ottawa, 2022  

Careers in Publishing Panel and Pizza Dinner 

Join us for an evening of panel conversation with English alumni in Publishing careers, including published authors, editors, marketing/sales, and more! They'll share their career stories, answer your questions, and introduce you to some of the (many) exciting publishing career pathways you can pursue with an English degree. 

 Free pizza dinner and great conversation provided! 

 Date/Time: Wednesday February 26, 5:30-8:00pm (5:30 check-in, 6:00 start time) 
Location: CDRS (MN3230)

RSVP by Feb. 19! https://uoft.me/CareersInPub

 Meet Our Panelists:

·       Andrea Thompson, Writer, Editor, Educator and Spoken Word Artist 

·       Alina Khawaja, Author

·       John Estabillo, Director, Content and Curriculum - ELA & Humanities, Nelson

·       Norah Franklin, Freelance Advisory Editor, Broadview Press

·       Samantha Devotta, Marketing and Sales Manager, School and Library, Penguin Random House Canada

·       Sarah Gregory, Sales Representative, Inside Sales, HarperCollins Canada

Co-moderated by:

·       Wendy Szeto, Career Counsellor, UTM Career Centre

·       Executive Member, Literature Is ALIVE!

• India Brown
• Princess Sarah Owusu Ansah
• Joy Pius  
• Toni Burrell

Apply to Present at the Annual EDSS x LIA! Undergraduate Research Symposium!
Theme: Building Worlds

Calling all UTM Students!

EDSS and LIA will be collaborating once again for the annual Undergraduate Research Symposium. Join us on Monday January 27th for academic and creative presentations following this year’s theme: building worlds.

The 2025 EDSS Undergraduate Research Symposium encourages undergraduate students to share their insights regarding how interdisciplinary literature and research can build worlds we want to live in. Join us to recognize how undergraduate writing and research can broaden our knowledge, provide new insights, advance our careers, and construct practical solutions to the challenges confronting our society. We encourage academic projects in all genres and forms. Past submissions have included course papers, personal essays, public-facing works, and creative works.

To apply, please submit a 200-word abstract for your presentation and a 150-word bio to this Google form by January 1, 2025.

No experience? No worries!

We’ll provide an academic presentation skills workshop for all presenters, co-hosted by Prof. Signy Lynch and Dr. Julia Boyd.

Date/Time: Monday January 27, 2025 from 12noon - 4pm

Location: Student Centre Presentation Room

Abstracts: submit a 200-word abstract and 150-word bio by January 1, 2025 to this form.

Submission form url: https://forms.gle/65J7YbgqUvT2866Z9

FREE food! Exciting research! Prizes for all presenters!

Crafternoon and Open Mic! “Literature, Arts & Social Change”
Join us to launch ENG104: Literature and Social Change’s Special Issue of the EDSS Literary Journal

The ENG104 Editorial Team is hosting a launch party for our special issue of the EDSS Literary Journal, featuring:

• Readings of fantastic work from the special issue
• An open mic to perform YOUR work (all genres/forms welcome)
• FREE button making
• FREE coffee, tea, hot chocolate, and snacks! 

Readings of critical, creative and social change-inspired work in all genres and forms are welcome! (If you’d like to share your work, you can sign up using the RSVP link!) 

All are welcome—we hope to see you there! Please distribute this invitation widely through your UTM communities. 

For invitations and more, follow Lit_arts_socialchange + Literature Is ALIVE! on Instagram

Please feel welcome to email Julia Boyd (ja.boyd@mail.utoronto.ca) if there’s anything we can do to make this event more accessible for you.

Location: CDRS (MN3230)
Date/Time: December 4th, 3-5pm
RSVP and submit to our open mic here by November 27th! 

https://forms.gle/5qjVSnucKdJPkp5q6

Humanities and STEM

Uniting Disciplines and Building Community 

Interested in exploring the relationship between English and STEM programs? Join us on Monday November 25th for a Q&A and author reading with award-winning alumna Mahnoor Khurram, who double-majored in English and Bio for Health Sciences, followed by a reading from 4th year undergraduate and Neuroscience Specialist Avery Hannah Chua, who will present a chapter from her in-progress novel, Songs of Winter.

Let’s come together for conversation and creative work celebrating how English and STEM can support and inform one another, both in school and beyond.

Songs of Winter follows an enthralling narrative plagued with immersive histories, divided loyalties, and divine retributions. At its centre, protagonist Adarah faces ghosts from the past she has desperately tried to rewrite. Soon, she must make a choice - her people’s survival against what she knows to be right. 

Date/Time: Monday November 25th from 3-5 pm

Location: CDRS MN325 Small Breakout Room 2

RSVP by Saturday November 23: https://uoft.me/HumsStem

Free light snacks provided!

For more event invitations, follow LIA! on Instagram join our mailing list.

Meet our Speakers!

Mahnoor Khurram graduated from UTM in 2024 with a Bachelor’s of Science, with unique double majors in Biology for Health Sciences and English. She is currently attending the Master’s of Health Science program at the University of Toronto, in the Department of Speech-Language Pathology (SLP), at the Temerty Faculty of Medicine. 

During her time at UTM, Mahnoor was heavily involved on campus, from serving as Vice President of the Erindale Biology Society, to President of the Book Discovery Club. Her tireless dedication to furthering the outreach of humanities and Biology has not gone unnoticed. Mahnoor was a humble recipient of the UTM Principal’s Award of Excellence in Student Leadership in 2023, along with several other meritorious accolades across her undergraduate career. Today, Mahnoor continues to volunteer in the community, dive into leadership initiatives, and serves on the UofT SLP Student Council as Co-President, working towards a vibrant career in Speech-Language Pathology."

Avery Hannah Chua is an aspiring physician, scientist, and writer of worlds. She is also a fourth year Neuroscience Specialist at UTM. Much like her approach to science, she crafts stories driven by curiosity and inquiry, meant not only for storytelling but also for exploration of the human experience. Consistent with her experimental background as a scientist, she plays around with trope subversion in her storytelling and worldbuilding to explore and reveal interesting truths about our reality and what it means to be something (e.g., human, morally good, etc.). For her, good stories prompt reflection, generate questions, and introduce new perspectives. Recently, she’s been experimenting with erasure poetry, doomed narratives, and medieval elements to enhance her work’s tone and message. Outside of writing, she loves ice-skating outdoors, hoarding books and neuroscience papers she can’t find the time to read, and buying more yarn for her endless crochet projects. 

LIA! Scholarship for Social Change Talk! 

Co-Moderated with SAGE (the Student Association for Geography and Environment)
 

Land Grab Universities and Decolonization 

Join U of T professors Brian Gettler and Mariana Valverde for short talks and discussion about their research into the link between settler colonialism and the establishment of McGill and U of T, and what that history means for us today as we work to meaningfully decolonize our classrooms and campuses.

Date/Time: Nov. 8, 2:00-3:30pm MN5128

Location: MN5128

RSVP by Wed. Nov. 6: https://forms.office.com/r/nx2yvnMrLA

Free light snacks provided!

Co-Moderated by Literature Is ALIVE! and SAGE, with generous support from the Department of English & Drama.

For more event invitations, follow LIA! and SAGE on Instagram join our LIA! mailing list.

Brian Gettler

Associate Professor, Department of Historical Studies, UTM Universities in Canada have long been funded in part by Indigenous dispossession. Most, as in the case of the University of Toronto, this funding comes in the form of endowed lands, the sale and rental of which universities have and do manage. This talk focuses on a slightly different case from the nineteenth century, one in which the university in question was financed directly by Indigenous monies. In 1860, McGill College petitioned the governor of the Province of Canada for funds to help with “the payment of the debt and the erection of buildings.” The request formed part of a campaign to address McGill’s financial difficulties that stretched back decades, a campaign grounded in administrators’ belief that the government owed the College an endowment. Following the petition, Canada brokered a loan for the requested amount. It did so from funds belonging to First Nations for which it had only just been appointed trustee. While McGill certainly profited from Indigenous dispossession through this loan, the appropriation of the funds by Canada is the more important story as it underlines local authorities' temptation to plunder First Nations lands and resources.

Mariana Valverde 

Professor Emerita, Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies, University of Toronto

LAND BACK? When the predecessor of U of T was founded (King’s College, 1827) the charter issued by the British King for the college was accompanied by a land grant, a quarter of a million acres all over Upper Canada (central and southern Ontario). When the provincial legislature abolished King’s and instead established the University of Toronto (January 1850), the new institution was allowed to keep the quarter of a million acres. This presentation, based mainly on archival research at the U of T archives, will explain the land grant and ask questions about its contemporary implications, in relation to Indigenous claims about ‘land back’.

Join us for a 2-part series of Careers in Teaching workshops hosted by LIA! and the UTM Career Centre, with support from TESA! 

• Readings of critical and creative work by UTM students (All forms welcome, including music and theatre! If you’d like to share your work, you can sign up using the RSVP link!)
• Inspiring conversations with like-minded peers, faculty, and staff
• Crochet! (with support from the UTM Crochet Club)

Calling all UTM first-years! Join Literature Is ALIVE! and the Department of English & Drama on Monday, September 16 for FREE pizza lunch and a nature walk, exploring our beautiful campus! First-year students will get the chance to hear answers to some of their biggest questions as faculty, staff, and upper-year students share their advice on how to thrive in university.  

All are welcome, whether you’re a first-year student or an upper year seeking advice and excited to share your own tips!  

Please RVSP by Sunday September 8th for FREE pizza and a stunning walk on campus with your new peers. 

Date/Time: Mon. Sept. 16, 2024, 12-2PM 

Location: MN 5th Floor Patio 

For more, follow us on IG and join our mailing list (link in IG bio): @utmliteratureisalive 

Please feel welcome to contact DM or email us (lit.is.alive.utm@gmail.com) if there is anything we can do to make this event more accessible for you. 

In celebration of Earth Day (April 22nd), join the Sustainability Ambassadors, UTM Sustainability Office and the Literature Is ALIVE! team for a park litter clean-up! Take a pause from the end-of-term rush to relax outside, stretch your legs, and help keep our local UTM park clean and healthy.  

 All members of the UTM community are welcome, including students, faculty, and staff!

Date: Tuesday, April 23
Time: 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm 

Location: Meet at the front entrance of RAWC by noon 

PLEASE NOTE: Registration is required—please RSVP by Tuesday April 16!

Rain or Shine! Post-Clean-Up refreshments provided!

Careers in English Alumni Panel

Join us for an evening of panel conversation with UTM English and Theatre & Drama Studies alumni! They'll share their career stories, answer your questions, and introduce you to some of the (many) exciting career pathways you can pursue with an English degree.

Panelists will be announced soon—stay tuned and RSVP for updates!

Free pizza and great conversation provided!

Date/Time: Thursday March 21, 5:30-8:00pm (5:30 check-in, 6:00 start time) 
Location: MN1190 
Please RSVP by Wed. Mar. 13: https://forms.gle/JMnyauwMRt4yxqrdA

For more invitations and updates, follow LIA! on Instagram.

Presented by Literature Is ALIVE!, the Department of English & Drama, the Career Centre, and Alumni Relations.

Why Study Humanities Today? Transdisciplinary Humanities for Social Transformation

LIA! is joining hands with humanities students and clubs across campus for a Lightning Lecture afternoon—and we want YOU to give a Lightning Lecture!

“Why Study Humanities Today?” If you have the inklings of an answer to this crucial question, submit a 100-word summary of a 3-5 minute “lightning talk” on the value, beauty, practical benefits, and transformative force of the humanities. A thriving humanities takes culture both as its subject and object, as a serious realm of study but also a regenerative space for play and creativity and healing.

In that spirit, we welcome lightning talks about any related topic in all forms, ranging from scholarly presentations to creative work, performance, rants, song, or any other form of your choosing. All students, regardless of their major, are welcome to submit for a chance to participate in a vibrant, ongoing conversation about the humanities.

Do you want to present? Please submit a 100-word summary of your proposed Lightning Lecture and 100-word bio to the Google form (link below) by Mar. 1, 2024.

No experience required! We’ll provide a Lightning Lecture skills workshop for all presenters. 

Date/Time: Mar. 15, 2024, 2pm-5pm 
Location: Student Centre Presentation Room 
FREE food! Inspiring Lectures! Great conversation! CCR Recognition for Presenters!

Abstracts due Mar. 1, 2024: https://forms.gle/CwigekmaQ5HF8yiEA

For more invitations and updates, follow LIA! on Instagram.

Please feel welcome to contact us at lit.is.alive.utm@gmail.com if there is anything we can do to make this event more accessible for you. For more updates, follow us on IG at @utmliteratureisalive.

Bringing Your Stories to the World II: A Publishing and Editing Workshop Series with Sarena & Sasha Nanua and Bernice Santos

Do you want to publish your creative writing? Are you passionate about crafting captivating fiction and creative prose? Do you want to learn more about publishing from three successful authors? If you answered “yes!” to any of these questions, then we have the series for you: Bringing Your Stories to the World is back for a second year, with 3 new workshops! Starting Feb. 27, join English and PWC alumni and YA authors Sarena & Sasha Nanua and PWC alumna Bernice Santos for a series of 3 interactive workshops on professional trade publishing, self-publishing, and editing craft. The first two workshops walk you through the practical dimensions of trade and self-publishing, and the third dives into the craft of editing your own creative writing.
 

Dates: Feb. 27 (1-3pm), Mar. 14 (1-3pm), Mar. 26 (3-5pm)
Location: CDRS (MN3230) 
RSVP by Feb. 20: https://forms.gle/iKFNAMFW9yzYQqtq6

Co-Curricular Record (CCR) Recognition for students who attend all three workshops!

Workshops designed and taught by Sarena & Sasha Nanua and Bernice Santos with support from Literature Is ALIVE! and the Department of English & Drama, UTM

For more invitations and updates, follow LIA! on Instagram.

Workshop schedule:
· Tues. Feb. 27, 1-3pm: Trade Publishing Fundamentals (with Sarena & Sasha)
· Thurs. Mar. 14, 1-3pm: Self-Publishing Fundamentals (with Bernice)
· Tues. Mar. 26, 3-5pm: Editing Craft Fundamentals (with Sarena & Sasha

Thurs. Nov. 2, 11:00am-12:00noon: The Influence of Black History and Culture on Contemporary Spoken Word Poetry 

Host: Prof. Andrea Thompson 

Location: meet on the MN fifth floor terrace (straight down the hall from the elevators), time TBA.
Walking Route: Principal’s Road and the UTM Nature Trail   

Join spoken word artist and poetry professor Andrea Thompson in an exploration of the influence of Black history and culture on contemporary Spoken Word - from the slave spirituals of the Old South to the coffee houses of the Harlem Renaissance to today's slam stages and rap battles. 

All are welcome, whatever your major—students, faculty, and staff included. We look forward to seeing you there!  

Please feel welcome to email Julia Boyd (ja.boyd@mail.utoronto.ca) and Sarah Star (sarah.star@utoronto.ca) with any questions or thoughts, or if there is anything we can do to make Prof Walks more accessible for you. 

Wed. Oct. 25, 1-2pm: Literature and Social Justice  

Host: Postdoc Julia Boyd 

Location: meet on the MN fifth floor terrace (straight down the hall from the elevators) at 1:00pm.
Walking Route: Principal’s Road and the UTM Nature Trail  
Join Postdoc Julia Boyd for a walk on the UTM nature trail to discuss Literature and Social Justice. How can literature inspire justice and societal transformation? Why does literature matter to our collective work building justice, inclusive communities—and a just world? What place should social justice have in English classrooms? Let’s investigate these questions and more as we explore how literature shapes, informs, and inspires positive social change.

Calling all students in English courses, especially first years! On October 4, join Literature Is ALIVE! and the Department of English & Drama for a FREE pizza lunch and sight-seeing walk to welcome first-year students. We'll start with pizza and a panel discussion with faculty, staff, and upper-year students sharing their tips for thriving in university, followed by a relaxing Fall nature photography walk on our beautiful campus. 

All are welcome, whether you are a first-year student or an upper-year with tips to share!
 

Please RSVP by Tuesday September 26 for FREE pizza and a beautiful fall walk on campus with your peers!  

RSVP link: https://forms.gle/7rcsceF3PHwBdz7L6
 

Date/Time: Wed. Oct. 4, 12:00-2:00pm 

Location: MN 5th Floor Patio (straight down the hall from the elevators) 

For more about Literature Is ALIVE!, including event invitations and how to get involved, follow LIA! on Instagram and join our mailing list: https://www.instagram.com/utmliteratureisalive/ 

Please feel welcome to contact us at lit.is.alive.utm@gmail.com if there is anything we can do to make this event more accessible for you. 

The Department of English and Drama is thrilled to invite you to the upcoming Student Program Planning Interactive Exhibition (SPPIE). This one-day event is open to all students, especially those who are in their first year or those preparing to enroll in their subject POSt at the end of this semester!

At SPPIE you can navigate through different interactive stations related to discovering your personal interests and goals, exploring relevant programs and career options, and accessing specific POSt enrollment supports. You will also have plenty of opportunities to connect directly with advisors from the Office of the Registrar, Career Centre, several academic departments, and former UTM alumni to help you with program planning!

Students who participate in SPPIE are also eligible to receive a notation on their Co-Curricular Record and have a chance to win a $50 gift card for the UTM Bookstore!

Interested? Register today!

• DATE: Friday, March 10th, 2023 
• TIME: 10:30 AM to 2:30 PM.
• LOCATION: GYM A/B · RSVP: To register, please click here.

If you have any additional questions, please reach out to SPPIE’s coordinator
Tiara De Koning (tiara.dekoning@utoronto.ca).