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CBC News: “Toronto journalist Ian Brown has won British Columbia’s National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction, Canada’s richest non-fiction prize. Brown, a Globe and Mail writer, won for his moving story about life with his disabled son, The Boy in the Moon: A Father’s Search for His Disabled Son.”
Brown is Rogers Communication Chair of Literary Journalism.
The Latest Word: Author of Generation X, JPod, and other novels will be appearing on October 17.
Calgary Herald: “For the past 20 years, eight journalists have gathered in the mountains to spend a month challenging the boundaries of non-fiction writing. Hunkered down at the Banff Centre’s literary journalism program, the chosen applicants are paid to polish a piece of writing under the watchful eye of their peers and a small group of editors against the peaceful backdrop of the Canadian Rockies. Not bad work if you can get it and the program has often seemed a ‘well-kept secret’ that has spread mostly through word of mouth among journalists, says current chair and past participant Marni Jackson. This might change after the release of Cabin Fever: The Best New Canadian Non-Fiction, the fifth anthology from the program, which features some of the most daring work from the centre of the past six years.”
CBC: Literary Arts faculty member Fred Stenson’s novel The Great Karoo is among nominees for the 2009 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize.
Montreal Mirror: “During a residency at Banff, Carpenter’s zining intersected with the Web when she took a circular text originally intended for a chapbook and turned it into her first Web-based art project…. Recently, Carpenter has been kept hopping with the Montreal and Toronto launches of her novel… and working with the Banff Centre on bringing their literary program into the 21st century. ‘Banff has given me a lot,’ says Carpenter. ‘I did my first Web-based work there in 1995, and now they’ve invited me back to be part of expanding their program.’”
Calgary Herald: “Governor General Award-winner Daniel MacIvor is currently the playwright-in-residence at the Banff Playwrights Colony. Tuesday morning, MacIvor chatted with the Herald about what, exactly, happens at a playwrights colony, tips on how not to get workshopped to death, and the current state of Canadian theatre.”
Marketwire: “Some of the best emerging and established writers from Canada and around the world will join readers in Banff this fall for WordFest, thanks in part to an investment from the Government of Canada of $65,000 for WordFest: Banff-Calgary International Writers Festival. The funding will be used to organize this year’s festival, to be held from October 14 to 19.”
Calgary Herald — Banff Centre contines sweep of prizes with Tom and Isobel Rolston and Greg Hollingshead (last year John Murrell was one of the recipients of the original prize).
The Charter (Placentia, Newfoundland): Paul Rowe about writing his novel The Silent Time: “It took a long time, about eight years but since 2004 I went to the Banff Centre for the Fine Arts. It was like I turned a corner there because at Banff I was there for five weeks and I got to work with a lot of people who were professional writers, who knew what they were doing. Since 2004, I kind of turned a corner and became really determined that I was going to finish the book.”
