Onder Deligoz is a Toronto-based author with an MA in Creative and Critical Writing from the University of Gloucestershire and a bachelor’s degree in journalism. He has a background in journalism, with experience as a reporter, editor, and editor-in-chief. He is the author of the novels Love After You Have Gone and Forbidden Voice. He served as PEN Writer-in-Residence at George Brown College for 2025–2026. His honours include the 2018 PEN Canada–Humber College Scholarship and the 2019 Diaspora Dialogues Long-Term Mentorship. He is at work on his debut poetry collection, A Mirror Reckoning, with a generous support by the Canada Council for the Arts.
BOOKS
Deligoz, Onder. (2023). Forbidden Voice Crane Books
Deligoz, Onder. (2017). Love After You Have Gone [Turkish: Senden Sonra Ask]. Bookcity.
PUBLICATIONS
A piece for PEN Canada about my journey as Writer-in-Residence at George Brown College Writing where silence breaks [2026]
Deligoz, Onder. (2023, May 23). The Body Bag [a poem]. Blood and Bourbon, 12: 230
Deligoz, Onder.(2021, Oct 1st) Don’t Surrender [short fiction]. Unmute Magazine, Fall 2021 Edition
Deligoz, Onder. (2021). Forbidden Voice [short fiction]. Blood & Bourbon, 7: 152-162
Deligoz, Onder. (2020, March 27). “Turkey: The Burden of Freedom”, [a piece]. PEN Canada
Deligoz, Onder. (2018). “Blow a Soul into Words” [an essay]. Write: Magazine of the Writers’ Union of Canada, Vol. 46, Issue 3 (Fall): 21
AWARDS
2025. Canada Council for the Arts, Research and Creation Funding Award
2025. PEN Writer-in-Residence at George Brown College
2019. Diaspora Dialogues Longterm Mentorship Program
[Mentor: David Layton]
2018. PEN Canada-Humber College Creative Writing Program Scholarship
[Mentor: Boris Fischman]
INTERVIEWS
2019, December 19. Ryerson University (Community Engaged Learning & Teaching). “Onder Deligoz: Fiction, Feelings and Freedom.”
2019, July 19. PEN Canada. “Q&A with Onder Deligoz, Winner of the 2018 Humber-PEN Writers-In-Exile Scholarship.”
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