Onder Deligoz is a Toronto-based author with an MA in Creative and Critical Writing from the University of Gloucestershire, and a postgraduate degree in Creative Writing from Humber College. He also holds 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, Barefoot on the Ice, with generous support from the Canada Council for the Arts.
He also works as a Quality and Policy Expert at Meta, where he applies his experience in data analytics and quality assessment.
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.”
onderdeligoz.com 