The Conference of Independent Teachers of English
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This year's InCITE Judge is Paul Dunn
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Paul Dunn is a playwright, actor and instructor based in Toronto. His plays include: Outside (Dora nomination -Outstanding New Play for TYA), Dalton and Company, Offensive Shadows (Now Magazine Audience Choice Award – SummerWorks), High-Gravel-Blind (Studio Theatre- Stratford Festival), and BOYS. He is a Co-author of The Gay Heritage Project, which premiered at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre in 2013 and has since been remounted and toured nationally (Dora nomination - Outstanding New Play). His other play, Memorial, received an Honourable Mention in 2013's national Herman Voaden play competition. He is currently the Playwright-in-Residence with Studio 180 Theatre, where he is developing a new play called This Great City. He has been a guest at the Banff Playwrights Colony and the Stratford Festival Playwrights Retreat. As an actor, he has spent seven seasons at the Stratford Festival, and has worked with Buddies in Bad Times, Thousand Islands Playhouse, Driftwood, The Grand, Tarragon, Canstage, YPT, NAC, MTC, the Citadel, and TNB, as well as in television, radio and film. He has been a guest instructor at the National Theatre School, Fanshawe College and the Thousand Islands Playhouse Young Company. He is a graduate of the Theatre Arts Program at Grant MacEwan College, and the Acting Program at the National Theatre School. Both The Gay Heritage Project and Outside are slated for publication by Playwrights Canada Press in 2017.
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Ayelet Tsabari was born in Israel to a large family of Yemeni descent. Her first book, The Best Place on Earth, (HarperCollins) won the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature and the Edward Lewis Wallant Award. The book was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, and has been published internationally to great acclaim. Her nonfiction has won a National Magazine Award and a Western Magazine Award. A graduate of the MFA program at Guelph University, she teaches creative writing at the University of Toronto’s School of Continuing Studies.
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Carrianne Leung is a fiction writer and educator. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology and Equity Studies from OISE/University of Toronto and works at OCAD University. Her debut novel, The Wondrous Woo was shortlisted for the 2014 Toronto Book Awards. Her new book titled, That Time I Loved You will be released by Harper Collins in 2018.
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Shoilee Khan is an English professor at Sheridan College. She received her MA in English Literature from the University of Toronto and her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph. Her fiction has appeared in a diverse collection of magazines and journals, including Adbusters, Room Magazine, The New Quarterly, and Other Voices. Her short story, "The Kidney Connection" was nominated for the 2011 Journey Prize in Fiction and a chapter from her novel in progress won the 2010 Other Voices Fiction Contest. She is a reviewer for Foreword Magazine and one of the organizers of Brampton's Festival of Literary Diversity, the FOLD.
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