Renee Gladman, photo by Garett Eliot.
Step into the second chapter of our Deep Winter Writers Literary Cabaret series, celebrating the vibrant work emerging from the Deep Winter Writing Residency at Banff Centre. Chapter 2 features a dynamic lineup of readings from residency writers, hosted and accompanied by a special reading from faculty mentor Renee Gladman.
Renee Gladman brings a singular interdisciplinary voice to the series. Her work moves between fiction, drawing, architecture, poetics, and visual art, making her an exciting draw for audiences interested in experimental literature, world-building, spatial imagination, and writing that challenges the boundaries of form.
Deep Winter Writers is a three-week residency designed for writers to enter a focused period of creative development in the mountains. Faculty are in residence for the first two weeks, offering mentorship, conversation, and community, with the public readings taking place during this active exchange. The third week shifts into a quieter period of deep work, giving writers time and space to carry that momentum into their manuscripts.
Enjoy drinks from the bar and immerse yourself in an evening of creativity and conversation. Doors open at 6:15 p.m. in CLVB '33, with the program beginning at 7 p.m., followed by relaxed mingling until 9:30 p.m.
Admission is free. Join us for a night of imagination and winter inspiration.
About Renee Gladman
Renee Gladman
Renee Gladman is a writer and artist preoccupied with crossings, thresholds, and geographies as they play out at the intersections of writing, drawing and architecture. She is the author of numerous books, including a cycle of novels about the city-state Ravicka and its inhabitants, the Ravickians, as well as three collections of drawings, Prose Architectures (2017), One Long Black Sentence (2020), and Plans for Sentences (2022). My Lesbian Novel, a work of fiction and autobiography, was released in 2024. Recent essays and visual work have appeared in The Architectural Review, POETRY, The Paris Review, The Yale Review, and e-flux, in addition to several artist monographs and exhibition catalogs. Since 2017, Gladman has exhibited her works on paper in galleries in the U.S. and across Europe. She has been awarded fellowships and artist residencies from the Menil Drawing Institute, Harvard Radcliffe Institute, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, among others, and received a Windham-Campbell prize in fiction in 2021. She makes her home in the Connecticut River Valley.