Live Events 2005
Hosted by Literary Arts at The Banff Centre
- Readings from the Writing Studio
- Banff Book Discussion Weekend Reading
- Banff International Literary Translation Centre Reading — Yann Martel
- Cultural Journalism Conversations
- WordFest
Readings from the Writing Studio
May 5 - June 2
Step inside The Banff Centre's
annual Writing Studio for free readings as the next generation of
great Canadian writers and distinguished faculty read from previously published work and/or
works-in-progress.
- May 5, Bentley Chamber Music Studio, 7:30 p.m.
Jack Hodgins
Jack Hodgins's fiction has won the Governor General's Award and the Canada-Australia Prize, among others. He is the author of Innocent Cities and Damage Done by the Storm.
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May 12,
Bentley Chamber Music Studio,
7:30 p.m.
David Bergen and Marilyn Bowering
David Bergen’s first novel, A Year of Lesser, was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection and a New York Times Notable Book. His latest novel, The Case of Lena S., was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award and won the Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award.
Marilyn Bowering is an award-winning poet, novelist and playwright. Her novel, Visible Worlds, was shortlisted for the prestigious Orange Prize and awarded the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize.
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May 19, Bentley Chamber Music Studio, 7:30 p.m.
Terry Griggs and Stan Dragland
Terry Griggs has published a collection of short stories, Quickening, nominated for the Governor General’s Award, among others, and published two novels.
Stan Dragland is the founding editor of Brick magazine and Brick Books. He has published three books and several books of criticism, of which the most recent is Apocrypha: Further Journeys.
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May 24, Rolston Recital
Hall, 7:30 p.m.
Daphne Marlatt
Daphne Marlatt is a poet, novelist, and essayist whose work crosses the fiction/poetry divide.
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May 26, Rolston Recital
Hall, 7:30 p.m.
Don McKay
Don McKay is a Governor General's award-winning poet.
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June 2, Rolston Recital
Hall, 7:30 p.m.
Edna Alford and Greg Hollingshead
Greg Hollingshead’s novel, The Roaring Girl, won the Governor General’s Award for Fiction and his novel, The Healer, won the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. His third novel, Bedlam, is a finalist for the City of Edmonton Book Prize and the Georges Bugnet Award for novel. Hollingshead is also nominated for the Grant MacEwan Author Award.
Edna Alford is the author of two collections of short fiction, A Sleep Full of Dreams and The Garden of Eloise Loon. She received the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award (co-winner) in 1981 and the Marian Engel Award for fiction in 1988.
Banff Book Discussion Weekend Reading
Public Reading with Catherine Simmons,
May 28
Catherine Simmons Niven has been published in numerous magazines
and anthologies including NeWest Review, Vox, and Secrets from the
Orange Couch. A Fine Daughter, her first novel, received multiple awards. In an age of cynicism and despair,
Catherine Simmons Niven wanted to write a book that "celebrates joy
and promotes living from the heart." Her book won the Henry Kriesel
Award for Best First Book, the Georges Bugnet Award for Best Novel,
and the Alberta Trade Book of the Year Award. She currently lives in
Calgary, Alberta.
Banff International Literary Translation Centre
(BILTC) Yann Martel Reading
June 21
Yann Martel is the prize-winning author of Life of Pi which won the 2002 Man Booker Prize, an award given to the best novel written in English by a citizen of the Commonwealth. Lisa Jardine, chair of the 2002 judges, has commented, “In
Life of Pi we have chosen an audacious book in which inventiveness explores belief. It is, as the author says, 'a novel which will make you believe in God' - or ask yourself why you don't.” Martel is also the author of the
The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios, a collection of short stories, and of
Self, a novel, both of them published internationally.
Cultural Journalism
Conversations
July 11 - August 1
A popular feature of the Cultural Journalism and Creative
Non-Fiction program, four guest lecturers, established writers and
editors in the field, are invited to Banff to give a public talk.
These lectures serve as a means in which the program broadens the
current and prevailing issues in a given year.
WordFest
October 12-16
Alberta's hottest literary event and the third largest Festival of
its kind in Canada hosts more than 50 artists over five days in
Calgary and Banff. For current updates on the upcoming 10th annual
Wordfest,
please visit www.wordfest.com.