Situated in both the and the D茅partement des litt茅ratures de langue fran莽aise, de traduction et de cr茅ation听(DLTC) within the Faculty of Arts, the Mordecai Richler Writer-in-Residence Program brings a creative writer to the Department of English for one semester each year. By providing valuable insight into the creative process through events, student meetings, and workshops, the Richler WiR nurtures emerging student talent. Students take in practical and theoretical approaches to writing for such media as television, film, radio, stage, interactive media and print publications.
Mordecai听Richler Writer-in-Residence听2025-2026
Ricardo Wilson
17 February 2026: Reading of new work by Ricardo Wilson - 5:30 pm, Arts 160, McCall MacBain Arts Building, 853 Sherbrooke W
24 March 2026: Book Launch for Troubled Lands (Princeton UP, 2026) edited by Ricardo Wilson, 5;30 pm, Thomson House Ballroom, 3650 McTavish
Ricardo Wilson, a creative writer and scholar, is an associate professor of English at Williams College and the founder and executive director of听The Outpost Foundation, a residency and arts advocacy organization for writers of color from the United States and Latin America. He has, most recently, extracted from the archive and edited听Troubled Lands, a forthcoming and previously unpublished collection of short fiction from Mexico and Cuba translated by Langston Hughes in 1935 (Princeton University Press) and is the author of听An Apparent Horizon and Other Stories听(PANK Books) and听The Nigrescent Beyond: Mexico, the United States, and the Psychic Vanishing of Blackness听(Northwestern University Press).听An Apparent Horizon and Other Stories听was selected as a finalist for both the Vermont Book Award and the Big Other Book Award.听His writing can also be found in, among other spaces, 3:AM Magazine,听Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire, BOMB, Callaloo,听The Common, CR: The New Centennial Review,听swamp pink, Northwest Review, The Offing, and听Stirring. He is at work on his forthcoming novel听Even Worse than the Nightmare.