Yasmine Seale, photo by Marie d'Orginy.
Celebrate the final evening of our Deep Winter Writers Literary Cabaret series, part of the Deep Winter Writing Residency at Banff Centre. Chapter 3 showcases compelling original works from residency writers and is hosted acclaimed faculty mentor Yasmine Seale who will treat us to a final reading.
Yasmine Seale brings an elegant, international, and deeply literary presence to the series. As a poet, critic, and translator, her work bridges languages, histories, and traditions, offering audiences a compelling entry point into the power of translation, myth, and contemporary global literature.
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.
Grab a drink from the bar, browse handpicked selections from Pages Books, and take in the lively, welcoming atmosphere of CLVB '33. Doors open at 6:15 p.m., with readings starting at 7 p.m., followed by time to mingle with writers and faculty members until 9:30 p.m.
Admission is free. Don’t miss this closing night of powerful storytelling and winter literary magic!
About Yasmine Seale
Yasmine Seale
Yasmine Seale is a poet, critic and literary translator. Her essays on literature, art, history and film have appeared in Harper’s, The Nation, The Paris Review, The Times Literary Supplement, Apollo and elsewhere. Her translations from the Arabic include The Annotated Arabian Nights (W. W. Norton, 2021), described by The New Yorker as “an electric new translation” and by The Economist as “quietly momentous”. She has also published Aladdin, a translation of the classic folktale (W. W. Norton, 2018), Agitated Air: Poems After Ibn Arabi, a collaboration with Robin Moger (Tenement Press, 2022), and Something Evergreen Called Life, a translated collection of poems by the Sudanese writer Rania Mamoun (Action Books, 2023). A contributing editor at Bidoun magazine, she is the recipient of the 2020 Wasafiri New Writing Prize for Poetry, and of grants and fellowships from PEN America, Koç University in Istanbul, and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination in Paris. A former fellow of the Cullman Center at the New York Public Library, she is currently a Visiting Professor at Columbia University.