Programs

This two-week literary residency for emerging writers nurtures a new frame of contemporary Canadian writing.

The Fables for the 21st Century program invites emerging and established writers to explore and re-imagine our individual and collective identities, with resulting stories to be published in a limited edition book that will endure in Canada’s literary landscape. 

This intensive residency offers space for Indigenous and non-Indigenous writers, artists, curators and researchers to imagine what the ‘future narratives’ of Canada may be from the perspective of Indigenous contemporary artistic practice. As we approach Canada 150, what is the vision for what those stories are and how they can be shared and supported going forward.

The Writing Studio is a five-week program offering poets and writers of fiction and other narrative prose the time, space, and support they need to pursue a writing project, with the benefit of editorial consultation. 

The Banff International Literary Translation Centre (BILTC) offers the only international residency program for literary translators in North America.