Literary arts

Dear Body, an anthology of women's voices - Submissions & Contest

Ends on Wed, Jan 13, 2027 1:00 AM

Join us for an evening with novelist Scott Alexander Howard, featuring a reading, discussion with Grant Stovel, and audience Q&A celebrating his acclaimed debut novel The Other Valley. Howard, who lives in Vancouver and holds a PhD in philosophy from the University of Toronto, brings a rich interdisciplinary perspective shaped by his postdoctoral work at Harvard on memory, emotion, and literature.

We are looking for land-based writing. All genres are accepted, including poems, stories, and creative nonfiction under 300 words. All submissions must respond to nature in some way.

The top 5 entries will be selected by Ashley Holloway and Jen Knox; these entries will then be converted to small, weather resistant wooden plaques that can be placed on posts throughout the walking paths on the Leighton Art Centre property. Author sites and works will be promoted through a QR code or link. 

The Mountain Writers Intensive is a three-week residency for twelve writers in fiction, nonfiction, journalism, or poetry. Ideal for projects on mountain narratives, adventure, environmental journalism, and the human connection to landscape, the program emphasizes literary excellence and narrative development. Writers enjoy dedicated time to create, connect with peers, and receive mentorship in Banff’s inspiring mountain setting. The residency overlaps with the Banff Centre Mountain Film and Book Festival, offering opportunities to engage with visiting authors, editors, and publishers.

In our Computational Writing residency, participants can better engage with computing to develop their own systems, whether their goals are conventional book publication or other manifestations of literary art. Methods participants can engage include (but are not limited to) templates, document schemata, grammars, Markov processes, rule-based transformation of existing texts, simulation of characters and settings, vector-space models and word embeddings, and work with LLMs —including fine-tuning them and training them from scratch.

Edmonton’s Broad View International Film Festival is proud to present two new documentaries made by Albertan filmmakers:

SEND AND RECEIVE / 12 min / Directed by Dominique Keller 
International in scope, this short documentary explores the importance of postal workers in small communities and the relationships they form with their clients.