Programs

Program Notice

Banff Centre has suspended all scheduled programs and events on campus until September. We will not be accepting applications during this time.

We are currently reviewing program offerings as part of our response to the COVID-19 pandemic. If you would like to be among the first to know about or new programs, please subscribe to our newsletter. 

Meantime, you can browse a sampling of previous Banff Centre programs as a preview of what you might see in the future.  If you have any questions please contact registrars_office@banffcentre.ca.

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Literary Arts programs at Banff Centre
Residency

Autobiography and Fiction with Electric Literature

Join Electric Literature, award-winning authors, and a community of peers in world-renowned Banff National Park to explore provocative concepts being used in contemporary autobiography and fiction...

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Emerging Writers Intensive

This eight-day writing workshop features multiple genres. The program is for new writers at varying levels of accomplishment, from not-yet-published writers to those with one published book.

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Winter Writers Retreat at Banff Centre
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Winter Writers Retreat 2020

In this self-directed winter residency, spend two weeks in the majestic Rocky Mountains deeply focused on your project while engaging with a community of writing peers.

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Indigenous Storytellers and Spoken Word Residency

This residency will engage participants in storytelling, in preparation for performance. Performances will include storytelling with spoken word and music lyricism.

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Spring Writers Retreat at Banff Centre
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Spring Writers Retreat 2020

In this self-directed spring residency, spend two weeks in the majestic Rocky Mountains deeply focused on your project while engaging with a community of writing peers.

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Poetry, Politics, and Embodiment

Examine queer, feminist, and decolonial theories of poetry and art to grapple with the status of the self and lived experience in your own writing practice.

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Kinship Medicines

Kinship Medicines is a thematic residency for queer, trans, and two-spirited Indigenous writers and visual artists who are enacting kinship ethics in their practices.

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Writing Studio

This program is for poets and writers of fiction and other narrative prose. It offers time, space, and support to pursue a writing project with editorial consultation.

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Practicum

Archives Practicum

The Archives Practicum program provides new archivists with skills and mentorship in their chosen field while they pursue a research project.

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Paul D.Fleck Library
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Library Practicum

An opportunity for recent graduates of MLIS programs with an interest in special collections, the arts, and reference services. Gain experience and develop your career.

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Banff International Literary Translation Centre (BILTC)

In North America’s only international residency for literary translators, focus on a current project and interact with faculty and peers in a spectacular mountain setting.

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Literary Journalism

Literary Journalism offers eight established writers of non-fiction an opportunity to develop a major essay, memoir, or feature piece for a $2,000 CAD commission. 

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