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Call for Submissions | RBC Emerging Artists Mentorship Program – Alberta Playwrights’ Network
Date: Jan 24, 2020
This program is designed to provide individual and project development to emerging and mid-career playwrights through mentorship.
Deadline: Jan 31, 2020 - 11:45 pm
Literary Journalism | Literary Arts Residency
Date: Dec 18, 2019
This residency offers 8 established writers of non-fiction an opportunity to develop a major essay, memoir, or feature piece for a $2,000 commission.
Deadline: Feb 12, 2020 - 11:45 pm
Drink the Wild Air 2020
Date: Dec 17, 2019
Join us from March 20-22 out at Kamp Kiwanis for a weekend of community and creativity!
Banff International Literary Translation Centre (BILTC) | Literary Arts
Date: Dec 12, 2019
In North America’s only international residency for literary translators, work on a current project & interact with faculty & peers in the mountains!
Deadline: Jan 29, 2020 - 11:45 pm
Alexis Marie Chute receives 2018 Alumni Horizon Award
Date: Sep 14, 2018
Community invited to celebrate as artist and author receives UAlberta Alumni Award on September 24.
Billy-Ray Belcourt wins 2018 Griffin Poetry Prize
Date: Jun 7, 2018
Billy-Ray Belcourt wins $65,000 Griffin Poetry Prize for his anthology, This Wound is a World.
Billy-Ray Belcourt wins a 2018 Indigenous Voices Award
Date: Jun 6, 2018
Billy Ray was recognized for most significant work of poetry in English by an emerging Indigenous writer. Joshua Whitehead was also nominated.
Lady Vanessa Cardona wins 2018 Canadian Individual Slam Championship
Date: Apr 30, 2018
On April 28th, Lady Vanessa won the title of Canada’s best individual slam poet at the 2018 Verses Festival of Words in Vancouver.
Sheri-D Wilson named Calgary Poet Laureate
Date: Apr 24, 2018
Calgary Arts Development and the Calgary Poet Laureate Selection Committee are pleased to announce Sheri-D Wilson as the 2018-2020 Poet Laureate.
Albertan artists recognized at the 2017 Governor General's Literary Awards
Date: Nov 1, 2017
Congratulations to Richard Harrison of Calgary and the other Albertan finalists recognized at the 2017 Governor General's Literary Awards