Literary Arts

Casey Plett

Celebrating Five Decades of Literary Arts at Banff Centre

This 50th anniversary milestone represents an opportunity to look back on five decades of exceptional Canadian and international writing.
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Daniel Levin Becker and Ian Williams
Date: Thu, Apr 25 @ 7:00 PM
Max Bell Auditorium

Form and Constraint: Literary Arts Faculty Readings

Join us for a free reading by faculty members, Daniel Levin Becker and Ian Williams, from Literary Art's Spring Thematic residency: Form and Constraint.
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Date: Thu, May 02 @ 7:00 PM
Max Bell Auditorium

Form and Constraint: Literary Arts Open Readings

Join us for a free evening of readings by our talented residency program writers,  from Literary Art's Spring Thematic residency: Form and Constraint.
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Date: Tue, Apr 30 @ 7:00 PM
Max Bell Auditorium

Form and Constraint: Literary Arts Open Readings

Join us for a free evening of readings by our talented residency program writers,  from Literary Art's Spring Thematic residency: Form and Constraint.
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Winter Writers Faculty Danez Smith and Omar El Akkad
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Winter Writers Residency 2025

A self-directed program that offers time and space for writers to retreat, reconnect, and re-energize their practice.
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Mountain Writers Intensive 2024

This program offers writers the opportunity to work on mountain, landscape or environmental writing projects, under the guidance of two celebrated faculty.
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Shane Hawk, Jessica Johns, Cherie Dimaline
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Horror Writing 2025

Banff Centre’s Horror Writing Residency assists writers of this popular and chilling form focus on their craft.
Application Deadline
January 08, 2025
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Program faculty Holly Melgard, Douglas Kearney, and Eric Sneathen
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Summer Writers 2025

This self-directed program offers writers time and space to reconnect and re-energize their practice.
Application Deadline
March 05, 2025
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Ai Jiang, Premee Mohamed, Amal El-Mohtar
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Science Fiction 2025

This residency supports science fiction writers exploring potential futures, perspectives, and narratives.
Application Deadline
April 16, 2025
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Bishakh Som, Matt Madden, and Tom Hart
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Comics and Graphic Novels 2025

The Comics and Graphic Novels residency considers how creatives use this unique media as a place for personal narrative, memoir, and exploration.
Application Deadline
May 21, 2025
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Jen Ferguson, Tanya Boteju and Jordan Scott
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Early Career Writers of Young Adult and Children's Books 2025

New writers of young adult and children's books will expand upon their practice in this 12-day, self-directed residency.
Application Deadline
June 04, 2025
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Deep Winter Writers faculty Holly Pester, Nasser Hussain, and Divya Victor
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Deep Winter Writers 2026

Deep Winter Writers Residency is a self-directed program that offers time and space for writers to retreat, reconnect, and re-energize their writing practice.
Application Deadline
August 20, 2025
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