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Victoria College

2025-2026 | Upcoming events

We have an exciting calendar of events for the 2025-2026 academic year, including Creativity Night and our regular Alumni and Faculty Reading Series.  

Are you a Vic Alumni interested in reading as part of our series, a current Vic student looking for support on a creative event, or an artist in the community interested in participating in one of our cross-disciplinary events? We’d love to hear from you! Please send us an email at vic.creativity@utoronto.ca to be considered for inclusion in our events series. Applications are assessed on a rolling basis; we endeavour to reply to all applications within three weeks of receipt.  

More events are added on an ongoing basis. Please check back often for updates.

Registration is available for all of our upcoming events via Eventbrite here.  

2025-2026 Events

Mar. 19, 2026 | Faculty Reading Series: Albert F. Moritz and Karen Solie

About the Event  

Join us for a poetry reading by award-winning poets and Victoria College faculty, Albert F. Moritz and Karen Solie.

This event is part of our Faculty Reading Series and will celebrate their most recent books, A.F. Mortitz's The Wren (coming out in April 2026) and Karen Solie's Wellwater. The readings will be accompanied by a Q&A session and light refreshments.

This event is open to the public, please register to attend.

About the Speakers

A.F. Moritz's most recent book, Great Silent Ballad (2024), received the Al and Eurithe Purdy Poetry Prize, and his previous one, As Far As You Know, was shortlisted for the Trillium Award. This spring he will publish a new book of poems The Wren, and Eternities, his translation of Eternidades (1918) by the great Spanish poet Juan Ramón Jiménez.

Karen Solie is the author of six collections of poems. Her most recent, Wellwater, won the UK's Forward Prize for Best Collection, the T.S. Eliot Prize, The Governor General's Award for Poetry, and was shortlisted for the PEN Heaney Prize. A 2023 Guggenheim Fellow, Karen teaches in the autumn for the University of St Andrews in Scotland, and spends the rest of the year in Canada.

Registration is here.
Mar. 26, 2026 | From Degree to Doing: Creative Professionals Panel
About the Event

Interested in exploring a career in a creative field? Come and meet experts in the fields of journalism, marketing, publishing, and more! Our panel will give students insights into the current landscape, how to get started, and how to integrate creativity into their professional lives. The panel will be followed by a Q&A and networking session. Light refreshments will be served.

About the Speakers

Elizabeth Barker is currently the Data and Digital Marketing Specialist at Orca Book Publishers. She started with a B.A.H in English Language and Literature and Psychology from Queen's University and somehow ended up as a verbose metadata nerd in Canada's Publishing industry. Like many in the book world, her focus is on helping the industry shift away from "'gatekeeping', to 'space-making'" (a catchy phrase that she picked up during her time working at BookNet Canada). Elizabeth's aim is to use data as the means to foster authentic representation and discoverability throughout the supply chain. Centred in children's publishing, she participates in many bibliographic groups to help set standards and Best Practices—but mostly spends her time deep in ONIX records.

Zack Kotzer is a local writer, editor and former carny. Currently he is the editor in chief of FUNLAND, a queer gaming zine exploring the fringes of the video world. His work has appeared in The Globe and Mail, Motherboard and The Atlantic.

Pacinthe Mattar is an independent journalist, writer and producer. She is the 2025 St. Clair Balfour Journalism Fellow at Massey College. Born in Egypt and raised between Canada, Saudi Arabia and the U.A.E, she spent a decade at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation producing for national TV and radio programmes. She received a National Magazine Award for her 2020 article "Objectivity Is A Privilege Afforded to White Journalists.” She was the 2022 Martin Wise Goodman Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, and the 2023 Asper Fellow in Media at Western University. In 2024, she delivered her public lecture "Objectivity, Press Freedom and the Palestine Exception" at Carleton University.

Amanda Merpaw is English Program Director at Poetry in Voice/Les voix de la poésie. A writer, editor, and educator, she holds both a bachelor’s and master’s degree in English literature, as well as a master’s degree in teaching. She has over a decade of experience teaching and holding leadership positions in both educational and nonprofit environments, with expertise in arts & heritage education, equity-based pedagogies, and digital educational content. As a poet, Amanda’s work has appeared in a variety of digital and print publications, and as an editor, she has held editorial roles at diverse literary magazines and presses.

Registration is here. 
Mar. 30, 2026 | Creativity Night

About the Event  

The Centre for Creativity is seeking submissions from current Victoria University students to participate in Creativity Night! Occurring on March 30, 2026, the C4C and CRESA will be hosting Creativity Night—a celebration of all things creative at Victoria University. Any and all creative works are welcome, even if they didn’t originate in a CRE course. Please submit your works for consideration by Sunday, February 22, 2026 before 11:59pm at the link here.