Calgary Distinguished Writers Program
Applications to be our 2027-28 Canadian Writer-in-Residence will open in the fall of 2025.
Current Writer-in-Residence
Learn more about our incoming 2025-26 Canadian Writer-in-Residence Tracy Dawson.
This (residency) is by far the most prestigious one. Many authors who won the Governor General’s (Award), who won the Giller (Prize), who won the Booker (Prize), have sat in the seat before me. I am sitting in a historical chair.
Danny Ramadan
2024–25 Writer-in-Residence, multi award-winning author
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2023 Faculty of Arts Killam Award winners
Congratulations to the Killam Award winners from the Faculty of Arts
Call for submissions: First Annual Faculty of Arts holiday card
All undergraduate and graduate students are encouraged to submit their artwork by Friday, Nov. 3, 2023, 11:59 p.m.
Harvard professor Jamaica Kincaid to speak at UCalgary as Distinguished Visiting Writer
Join Kincaid as she reflects on life and literature at MacEwan Ballroom on Feb. 9 with the Calgary Distinguished Writers Program
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