News

January, 2012: Announcing Billy Collins, America's most popular poet, as the Distinguished Visiting Writer for 2012. He will be giving a free lecture and reading in the MacEwan Hall Ballroom on March 14, 2012 at 7:30.  (more)

January, 2012: Award-winning author and storyteller Richard Van Camp comes to Calgary March 8, the night of the full moon, for an evening of storytelling in the Gallery Hall of the Taylor Family Digital Library. (more)

September, 2011: Jeramy Dodds,  2011 – 2012 Writer-in-Residence has arrived! His ten-month residency at the University of Calgary began August 15, 2011. (more)

About the Program

The Calgary Distinguished Writers Program strives to advance the careers of Canadian writers, invigorate the Calgary writing community, and enhance the activities of the Faculty of Arts and the Department of English. The Program achieves its objectives through two annual residency programs: one for an emerging Canadian writer, and one for distinguished writers of international stature.

Since its inception in 1993, the Program has brought to Calgary two Nobel Laureates, Derek Walcott and Wole Soyinka, and such literary luminaries as Art Spiegelman, Oliver Sacks, Timothy Findley, Thomas King, Ursula K. Le Guin, Alberto Manguel, Margaret MacMillan, Michael Ondaatje,  and Pulitzer Prize-winning author and illustrator Art Spiegelman, among others.

Events

Wednesday,
March 14,
2012
7:30 pm in the Ballroom of MacEwan Hall, Billy Collins
(more)

Thursday, March 8, 2012
7:30 pm in the Gallery Hall of the Taylor Family Digital Library, Richard Van Camp
(more)

Wednesday, January 18
Alberta Books Canada Literary Salon (more)

Tuesday, December 13, 2011
7:00 pm at the Rose & Crown pub
(more)

Wednesday, November 30, 2011
3:00 pm in the Gallery Hall of the Taylor Family Digital Library (more)

Tuesday, November 22, 2011
8:00 pm at the Georgetown Inn,  Canmore (more)

October 14,
Friday Night in The Club
8:00 pm at The Club in the Banff Centre, Banff
$12 (more)

October 11,
WordFeast fundraising dinner for WordFest,
6:00 p.m.
Hotel Le Germain
899 Centre Street SW
$200 (more)

October 2,
What Makes Great Poetry?
3:00 pm
Memorial Park Library, 1221 2nd Street SW

Free (more)

September 29, Calgary Writers-in-Residence Connect!
7:00 pm
Memorial Park Library, 1221 2nd Street SW
Free (more)

September 23
PGIs for Literacy
founded by Peter Gzowski
At the Country Hills Golf Club
(more)

September 15
CDWP Writers-in-Residence
Jeramy Dodds and Oana Avasilichioaei
7:30 pm
Arrata Opera Centre, 1315 7 St. SW
Free (more)

June 20
RoTextBot
7:30 pm
Birds & Stone Theatre
204 16 Ave NW
$10 (or PWYC)
(more)