 He was the 2002 "Writer in Residence" for the Writers' Circle of Durham Region, the 2003 "Poet in Residence" for the Ottawa International Writers Festival, and the 2005 Electronic Writer in Residence for the Toronto Public Library's RAMP website for teens.He was Queen's University's writer in residence in 2010.Stuart was the Fiction and Poetry Editor for "This Magazine" from 2004 until 2012 and from 2007 to 2016, he was Editor for Mansfield Press, where he had his own imprint