George Whalley, Writing in Canada: Proceedings of the Canadian Writers’ Conference Held at Queen’s University, 28-31 July, 1955

Michael DiSanto (Algoma University College)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.1.2: Canadian Writing and Culture (Anglophone): The Twentieth Century and beyond, 1900-present.
Vol. editors: Sarah Henzi (Simon Fraser University), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Glen Nichols (Mount Allison University), Wendy Roy (University of Saskatchewan), Denis Salter (McGill University), Karis Shearer (University of British Columbia)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1956

Places

Canada (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Non-Fiction
- Commentary / Criticism (literary)

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A Canadian Writers’ Conference, attended by approximately one hundred delegates, was convened at Queen’s University, July 28-31, 1955. The conference theme was “The Writer, His Media, and the Public” and its aim was to bring together people involved in writing literature, publishing it, distributing it, and reviewing and studying it.

Writing In Canada

collects the conference proceedings and includes the papers read and summaries of the discussions that followed.

In the preface, George Whalley explains the origins of the conference had arisen from a poetry conference at Harvard that F.R. Scott, A.J.M Smith, and A.M. Klein, three notable Canadian poets, attended in 1950. An attempt to organize a comparable Canadian conference at McGill University, which was made by Scott in 1951,

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Citation: DiSanto, Michael. "Writing in Canada: Proceedings of the Canadian Writers’ Conference Held at Queen’s University, 28-31 July, 1955". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 29 November 2013 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=35203, accessed 19 April 2024.]

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