About Téa Mutonji: Born in Congo-Kinshasa, Téa Mutonji’s work focuses primarily on friendship, womanhood, race and sexuality.
Her essay, “The Price of Being Pretty,” was nominated for a digital publishing award in the category of best essays. Her short stories “Property of Neil” and “The photographer’s Wife” were awarded the Writers' Trust McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize (2023).
She holds a degree in Media Studies and minors in English Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Toronto Scarborough.
Her debut collection of short stories, Shut Up You’re Pretty is the first title from Vivek Shraya imprint, VS. Books. It was featured on several end-of-the-year lists, including The Globe 100: Books that shaped (2019), The Walrus Best Books (2019) and the Quill & Quire Books of The Year (2019) to name a few. Shut up You’re Pretty was shortlisted for the Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize (2019) and won the Edmund White Debut Fiction Award (2020) and the Trillium Book Award (2020).
Téa is the nonfiction editor of Feel Ways: An anthology of Scarborough Writing, forthcoming from Mawenzi House this spring.
She is the recipient of the Jill Davis fellowship in Fiction at New York University, where she’s an MFA candidate.
Meet with Téa Mutonji
Tuesdays, September 12 – December 5 by appointment
10am - 1pm at Western University
3pm - 6pm Central Library, Study Room 3D
Téa is ready to read your work and provide you with feedback on it. She will hold weekly office hours for writers at all levels and offers an empathetic ear, constructive criticism and general guidance.
To schedule an appointment, email Vivian Foglton at vivian.foglton@uwo.ca. Once you have an appointment, please send Vivian a sample of your work one week before your appointment (up to 5 pages of poetry or 10 pages of other writing).
Writer-in-Residence FAQ
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To schedule an appointment, email Vivian Foglton at vivian.foglton@uwo.ca.
Once you have an appointment, please send Vivian a sample of your work one week before your appointment. -
Once you have scheduled an appointment, please email your work to vivian.foglton@uwo.ca
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Any kind of creative writing! Fiction, non-fiction, poetry, prose. You name it.
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You can send up to 5 pages of poetry or 10 pages of all other creative writing. Please submit your work one week before your appointment in a Word document, double-spaced (12-point font).
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Please come prepared to discuss your work. This could include your intentions with the work, your hopes and plans for it, and what you see as the next steps.
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Please email vivian.foglton@uwo.ca or call 519-661-4600 if you are meeting at the London Public Library.
The Writer-in-Residence program is sponsored by the Department of English and Writing Studies, the James A. and Marjorie Spenceley Fund and the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Western University, in collaboration with London Public Library.
For more information about the Writer-in-Residence program and for information on how to apply for this position, please visit the Department of English and Writing Studies website.