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Banff International Literary Translation Centre (BILTC)
Date: Oct 26, 2018
Offers student, emerging, and professional literary translators a period of uninterrupted work on a current project. Deadline: Jan. 30.
Deadline: Jan 30, 2019 - 5:00 pm
Literary Journalism | Literary Arts Residency
Date: Oct 26, 2018
Designed to challenge and stimulate, the program aims to inspire creative pieces of writing, which might otherwise be difficult to complete.
Deadline: Feb 27, 2019 - 5:00 pm
Spoken Word | Literary Arts Residency
Date: Oct 26, 2018
The two-week program offers dedicated time to develop a specific project with guidance from faculty mentors. Apply by Jan. 9.
Deadline: Jan 9, 2019 - 5:00 pm
Writing Studio | Literary Arts Residency
Date: Oct 26, 2018
Provides writers and poets with an extended period of uninterrupted writing time and one-on-one editorial assistance. Apply by Feb.6
Deadline: Feb 6, 2019 - 5:00 pm
Applications open: 2020–21 Canadian Writer-in-Residence
Date: Oct 24, 2018
For 25 years the CDWP has fostered promising Canadian writers. Do you have what it takes to be our next Writer-in-Residence? Deadline: Jan.15
Deadline: Jan 15, 2019 - 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.