News

Residency Opportunity for Writers with the Markin-Flanagan Distinguished Writers Program
The Markin-Flanagan Program is accepting submissions from emerging Canadian writers for a 10-month residency at the University of Calgary from August 15, 2011 - June 15, 2012. more

Jaspreet Singh 's novel Chef, written during his 2006 - 2007 residency, has made the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award longlist.

Marcello Di Cintio has won the 2009 Dave Greber Freelance Writers Magazine Award. Geist Magazine will publish the winning article, "Wall of Shame", which is an adaptation of a chapter from Marcello's book about the communities that live in the shadow of walls, fences and other "hard" barriers.

Sina Queyras , the 2007 - 2008 Canadian Writer-in-Residence, has been shortlisted for a Governor General's Literary Award (in the poetry category) for Expressway, a collection of poetry completed during her Markin-Flanagan residency. Winners will be announced November 17. more

 About the Program

The Markin-Flanagan Distinguished Writers Program strives to advance the careers of Canadian writers, invigorate the Calgary writing community, and enhance the activities of the Faculty of Humanities and the Department of English. The Program achieves its objectives through two annual residency programs: one for an emerging Canadian writer, and one for distinguished writers of international stature.

Since its inception in 1993, the Program has brought to Calgary two Nobel Laureates, Derek Walcott and Wole Soyinka, and such literary luminaries as Oliver Sacks, Timothy Findley, Thomas King, Ursula K. Le Guin, Alberto Manguel, and Michael Ondaatje, among others.

This year, Marcello Di Cintio the 2009 - 2010 Markin-Flanagan Canadian Writer-in-Residence . 

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Events

Marcello Di Cintio and Sid Marty: Creative Nonfiction panel

Representing "The Other" in Creative Nonfiction
Wednesday, November 4
3 pm
Social Sciences 1339, University of Calgary
Free.
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Calgary Writers-in-Residence

Thursday, November 12
7 pm - 8:30 pm
Memorial Park Library, 1221 2nd St. SW
Free.

Join Betty Jane Hegerat of Calgary Public Library and Marcello Di Cintio as they talk about what to expect from a visit to a writer in residence and read from their works.