Dodie Bellamy, photo courtesy of the artist.
Join us for an invigorating evening of poetry and prose at this Literary Cabaret, a sharing of works in the Summer Writers residency at Banff Centre. Across three nights, explore intimate readings of fresh contemporary literature by participants and faculty mentors.
Running for two weeks, Summer Writers is one of Banff Centre’s most popular open-genre Literary residencies, attracting participants working across fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and hybrid forms to dive into works-in-progress under the gorgeous Rocky Mountain sun.
This chapter is hosted by Bellamy, a legendary figure in contemporary American writing, known for her radical, intimate, and influential contributions to poetry, nonfiction, and art criticism. She has published a dozen books, including—with the publisher Semiotext(e)—Bee Reaved, When the Sick Rule the World, and The Letters of Mina Harker.
Enjoy a drink from the bar and immerse yourself in a vibrant literary atmosphere. Doors open at 6:15 p.m., with readings starting at 7 p.m. Afterward, mingle with the writers and faculty until 9:30 p.m.
Don’t miss this chance to discover the books of tomorrow.
Literary Arts is generously supported by the Flanagan Foundation and Fondation David R. Graham.
About Dodie Bellamy
Dodie Bellamy
Dodie Bellamy is a San Francisco-based poet, novelist, personal essayist, and art journalist. She has published a dozen books, including (with Semiotexte) Bee Reaved, When the Sick Rule the World, and The Letters of Mina Harker. She’s written for numerous art catalogues and journals, including Artforum, Frieze, Mousse, Apartamento, Gagosian Quarterly, diaphenes, The Village Voice, and Los Angeles Review of Books. With Kevin Killian, she edited Writers Who Love Too Much: New Narrative 1977-1997 (2017). Bellamy was the 2018-19 subject of California College of the Arts’ Wattis Institute’s “On Our Mind” program—a series of public events, commissioned essays, workshops, and reading group exploring her writing—culminating with the 2020 monograph Dodie Bellamy is on Our Mind. In 2023 she received a Guggenheim fellowship in Nonfiction.