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Current Writer-in-Residence
Learn more about our 2024-25 Canadian Writer-in-Residence Danny Ramadan.
This (residency) is by far the most prestigious oneMany 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
Featured news
2024-25 Canadian Writer-in-Residence likes to ‘jump lanes’
Syrian Canadian author Danny Ramadan has published children’s lit, memoir and fiction
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
In the News Suzette Mayr, English, CDWP, Ian Williams, CDWP, in Calgary Herald
Calgary and the Giller Prize: A short history of the shortlist
In the News Leah Horlick, Writer-in-Residence, Calgary Distinguished Writers Program
Renowned poet Leah Horlick works on debut novel as U of C's writer-in-residence
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