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Erica McKeen (BA'19, MA'20) longlisted for the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction

Her latest novel, Cicada Summer, has been longlisted for the prestigious literary award featuring 15 unforgettable works of fiction by women writers in the U.S. and Canada, spanning novels, short story collections, and fiction in translation.

Karen Wen, second-year English Language and Literature student in the School for Advanced Studies in the Arts & Humanities, among five undergraduate students awarded Western Libraries Undergraduate Research Awards (WLURAs)

LISTEN as Professors Madeline Bassnett and Laurie Johnson discuss England’s Little Ice Age and the Weather Extremes in the Little Ice Age database on the Not Just the Tudors podcast

Arts and humanities professors, Joshua Schuster and Kirsty Robertson, unravel the role that art and literature play in spurring action on climate change

Writing courses and new young adult fiction prize at Western nurture creativity

Emma Cleland, BA'24, Regional Winner in the 2024 Global Undergraduate Awards

Professor Joshua Schuster awarded the 25th Susanne M. Glasscock Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship for his book What is Extinction? A Natural and Cultural History of Last Animals