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Playwrights 2013: Rockabye black bear
This week, we’ve invited writers from the 2013 Banff Playwrights Colony to guest blog about their experiences here. Fear drives my writing. Staring at a script on a laptop gives me the same queasiness...
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Playwrights 2013: Community and space
This week, we’ve invited writers from the 2013 Banff Playwrights Colony to guest blog about their experiences here. Playwrights Colony out on the terrace of the Banff Springs Hotel. Photo: Brian Quirt...
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Playwrights 2013: “My kind of magic”
This week, we’ve invited writers from the 2013 Banff Playwrights Colony to guest blog about their experiences here. When I was told I was getting the Margaret Greenham Theatre during my time at the...
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Playwright Greg Moss: Dredging up the grotesque
Playwright Greg Moss (right) at a reading of his new play with Playwrights Colony actors. Photo: Kim Williams. Greg Moss is an American playwright whose work has been described as “creepy,...
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Celebrating Edna Alford’s storied career
Celebrating Edna Alford’s contribution to Literary Arts at The Banff Centre. Photo: 2007 Writer and former Literary Arts faculty member Edna Alford worked at The Banff Centre for over 15 years, and was...
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Post-Playwrights Colony recollections
Senior playwright in residence Mieko Ouchi guide actors Sheldon Elter and Richard Lee Hsi work through a series of stage combat exercises on the Margaret Greenham stage. Photo: Brian Quirt. The 40th...
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Finding the literary in journalism
Author Ann Silversides, a writer in the 2012 Literary Journalism program. I like to joke that I was the oldest participant in the Summer 2012 Literary Journalism program, but the only one not writing a...
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Colman Domingo: “Are we dating or are we getting married?”
I first met actor and playwright Colman Domingo two years ago when he was one of a select few writers chosen for the 2011 Sundance Theatre Lab, which had temporarily relocated here for two weeks. He...
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Before coming to Banff…
A group of participants from the Writers’ Studio hiking to Sundance Canyon. Before coming to Banff…I could not have known how the view of Mount Rundle shrouded in mist would welcome me home after a...
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D’bi Young’s Dare
D’bi Young wants to tell you stories, and she wants to listen to yours as well. She’s a dubpoet, monodramatist and educator, which means she writes plays and spoken word pieces and performs those...
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Ferrier and Frankland’s double translation
Translator Marie Frankland and spoken word artist Ian Ferrier came together at the Banff International Literary Translation Centre to work on Ferrier’s first French manuscript. Photo: Don Lee...
View ArticleThis week on our podcast: The writer’s desk, composing an Iranian legend, the...
This week on the podcast: Ten writers from The Banff Centre’s 2013 Writing Studio describe how they set up their “desks” for maximum creativity. We’ll hear a musical account of an Iranian mountain...
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This week on the podcast: We head into the woods with a listening expert to practice listening. We’ll open some audio letters sent to us by writer Guadalupe Muro, about the end of youth, romance,...
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Shane Koyczan: “Why am I writing?”
Spoken Word artist Shane Koyczan, at the 2013 Banff Midsummer Ball. Photo: Rita Taylor. Shane Koyczan is a pretty rare kind of celebrity. He’s a celebrity poet. In February of this year he released a...
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A snapshot of writers’ creative spaces
Is this a typical writer’s work space? Photo: Guadalupe Muro. Imagine: A long wooden desk. A king size bed with sheets washed daily. Built in bookshelves above the table, over the bed. A refrigerator...
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“What makes a book discoverable?”
The shift to slick online publishing platforms and the undeniable importance of social media have threatened to make the book publishing industry a premature casualty of the digital age. However, Craig...
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Ian Brown and the broccoflower cartel
Journalist Ian Brown has changed. It took six months in the clear mountain air, immersing himself inThe Banff Centre, observing the Alberta way of life and fine-tuning his canoeing skills, but he’s...
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Joseph Boyden: “What are the risks?”
Author Joseph Boyden was at The Banff Centre in the spring, working in the Leighton Artists’ Colony on the final proofs for his new novel, The Orenda. He’ll be back this Saturday as part of WordFest,...
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Mountain writers: “A natural feel for story”
Mountain and Wilderness Writing program directors Tony Whittome and Marni Jackson. Photo: Meghan Krauss. Marni Jackson and Tony Whittome have led The Banff Centre’s Mountain and Wilderness Writing...
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Adventurer Bruce Kirkby on the genius of Google and Burmese cheese
Adventurer, writer and photographer, Bruce Kirkby, has spent more than two decades exploring the most remote corners of the planet. He was here at the 2013 Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival wearing...
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