Certificates

  • 2021 University of Toronto School for Continuing Studies Creative Writing Certificate

  • 2018 Humber College Creative Writing Certificate

  • 2017 Amherst Writers & Artists Method Facilitator Certificate

Awards

  • 2020 Top 100 Black Women to Watch in Canada, Canada International Black Women Event

  • 2020 CBC/Radio-Canada and Canada Council for the Arts Creation Accelerator, Phase Two

  • 2020 TD-Diaspora Dialogues Black Playwrights Mentoring Program Mentee

  • 2018 Diaspora Dialogues Long-Form Mentorship Program Mentee

  • 2017 Black Women Film! Canada Leadership Program

  • 2017 CaribbeanTales CineFAM Short Film Challenge Winner for “Intersecting”

  • Winner of Neighbourhood Arts Network BMO Seeds Fund for Liquid Voice

  • 2014 ArtReach Youth Arts Pitch Contest winner for Black Like We: Troubleshooting the Black Youth Experience

  • 2014 Black Canadian Awards Role Model & Ambassador 

  • 2014 Certificate of Appreciation from Rathika Sitsabaisan, MP, Scarborough-Rouge River

Honours

Residencies

Press

  • Creative Consultant, Left of Centre, Nia Centre for the Arts

  • Jury Member, Ontario Arts Council – Artists in Communities and Schools Projects

  • Interviewer, Poetic Journeys: Shani Mootoo & Pamela Mordecai (Moderator), Toronto International Festival of Authors

  • In Conversation with Tanya Turton (Moderator),  Word on The Street

  • GLYCH: Intersecting Afrofuturism and Spirit Fiction (Moderator), Toronto Comic-Con

  • Panelist, Animating Place Into Character, Reel Asian Reel Ideas Conference

  • Interviewer, A New Way Forward: Mateo Askaripour & Natasha Brown, Toronto International Festival of Authors

  • Interviewer, The Disorientation of Discrimination: Kei Miller & Ian Williams, Toronto International Festival of Authors

  • Featured by Toronto Foundation, “Writing for Women of Colour”

  • Literary Salon with Fiona Raye Clarke and Zalika Reid-Benta, Diaspora Dialogues and TD Bank

  • Editorial Board Member, Canthius (Issue #09)

  • Living In The Skin I Am In Reel, Cultural Pluralism in the Arts Movement Ontario, The Gathering

  • Interviewer, Deconstructing Racism: Desmond Cole & Grada Kilomba, Toronto International Festival of Authors

  • Interviewer, Far From Home: Kaie Kellough & Souvankham Thammavongsa, Toronto International Festival of Authors

  • Finding Your Voice As A Writer and More with Fiona Raye Clarke, Left of Centre: Conversations, Nia Centre for the Arts

  • Moderator, In Conversation with Canisia Lubrin and Francesca Ekwuyasi, Diaspora Dialogues TOK Symposium x Word on the Street Toronto

  • Creative Consultant, Left of Centre, Nia Centre for the Arts

  • Member, The Writers’ Union of Canada

  • Jury Member, Ontario Arts Council – Artists in Communities and Schools Projects

  • Associate Member, League of Canadian Poets

  • Jury Member, Toronto Arts Council – Literary Arts Level Two

  • Top Ten Finalist for Magee TV Diverse Screenwriters Award

  • Jury Member, ArtWorks TO

  • Studio Y Finalist

  • 2013 Toronto Public Library Recommended Book List for Black History Month (Basodee)

  • 2013 Open Book Toronto Black History Month Recommended Book List (Basodee)

  • Selected as Passages Canada Speaker 

  • Netflix-BANFF Diversity of Voices Initiative Program, Banff World Media Festival

  • 2021-Present Black Arts Projects, Mentor in Residence, Neighbourhood Arts Network and Toronto Arts Council

  • 2021 Mentor in Residence, Neighbourhood Arts Network

  • BIPOC Connect, The Writer’s Union of Canada

  • 2020 Writing the Imaginary, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity

  • 2018 Firefly Creative Writing Writer in Residence

  • PEERS artist residency, Whippersnapper Gallery

  • InspiraTO Playwrights Academy (2014-2015)

  • CBC/Radio-Canada and the Canada Council for the Arts unveil Creation Accelerator projects (March 2021)

  • Featured Guest (Freshwaves, February 2021)

  • A Conversation with Fiona Raye Clarke (Black History Month Feature) A Different Booklist Cultural Centre (February 2019)

  • If I speak to you in anger, Gardiner Museum (August 2018)

  • From Their Lips tells the stories of elders in the Black Canadian community, University of Toronto Scarborough (March 2018)

  • Spoken from the lips of experience, The Medium (December 2016)

  • New Play Inspired by Black Lives Matter, By Blacks.com (May 2016)

  • Fiona Clarke is troubleshooting the black youth experience, Parkdale Villager (February 2015)

  • Realview Writers Block: Fiona Clarke, Urbanology Magazine (2013)

  • The WAR Series: Writers as Readers, With Fiona Raye Clarke, Open Book Toronto (February 2013)

  • On Writing with Fiona Raye Clarke and the Basodee Collective at Open Book Toronto (August 2012)