Conor Kerr, MFA, BA

Area of Study / Keywords

Creative Writing Indigenous Literatures Métis Harvesting Narratives

About

Conor Kerr is a national award–winning (and losing) Métis/Ukrainian writer and bird hunter living in amiskwaciwâskahikan (Edmonton), born in Saskatoon, and raised in Buffalo Pound Lake and Drayton Valley. He is a member of the Métis Nation of Alberta. His Ukrainian family are settlers on Treaty 4 Territory. Conor is the author of the novels Avenue of Champions (2021), which won the 2022 RELIT Award, was shortlisted for the 2022 Amazon/Walrus Debut Novel Award, and was longlisted for the 2022 Giller Prize, and Prairie Edge (2024), which was shortlisted for the 2024 Giller Prize and the 2024 Writer’s Trust Atwood Gibson Fiction Award and won the 2024 Crime Writers of Canada best novel award; the poetry collections An Explosion of Feathers (2021) and Old Gods (2023), which was shortlisted for the 2023 Governor General’s Award for Poetry and named one of CBC’s Best Books of 2023. He has two forthcoming books, Beaver Hills Forever (2025) and Duck Blind (2027).

ENGL 308 - Topics in Indigenous Literature

Prerequisite: 6 units of junior ENGL, or 3 units of junior ENGL and 3 units of junior WRS. Note: variable content course which may be repeated if topics vary.

ENGL 574 - Creative Writing

WRITE 393 - Intermediate Fiction

Lectures and workshops focusing on selected fiction techniques and form. Prerequisite: WRITE 295 unless waived by Instructor; a minimum grade of B+ in the prerequisite course is strongly recommended.

WRITE 495 - Advanced Creative Writing: Fiction

Prerequisite: WRITE 393 or WRITE 395 unless waived by Instructor; a minimum grade of B+ in the prerequisite course is strongly recommended.

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