Open Call

Autobiography and Fiction with Electric Literature | Literary Arts

Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity

With Funding
Banff, Canada

Eligibility

We welcome all writers (emerging and established) writing auto-fiction, autobiography, and memoir, from all backgrounds, and all gender identities and expressions.

Number of Participants

Over two weeks, writers will have time and space to work on their individual manuscripts. Editors Halimah Marcus and Jess Zimmerman, from Electric Literature will be available for editorial consultations and will lead a group seminar on strategies for getting published. Guest faculty Meredith Talusan and Susan Choi will lead group and individual discussions around the program’s themes and approaches relevant to the process of writing narrative fiction, auto-fiction, memoir, autobiography, and other related subgenres. The program will feature a guest speaker event featuring award-winning Canadian writer Dionne Brand, as well as two reading nights featuring writers reading from their works in progress alongside guest faculty.

Deadline

Selection Results (Announcement Dates)

Duration

August 13, 2019 - August 25, 2019

Funding

  • CA$1,109.00 stipend (one-time)

Costs

  • CA$65.00 application fee
  • CA$2,218.00 program fee

Facilities

Individual Studio, Library, Shared Studio

Housing

Private Room

Meals

Breakfast, Dinner, Lunch

Public Programs

Discussion, Mentors, Open Studios, Professional Development, Readings

Disciplines

Fiction, Literature, Nonfiction

Languages

English

Program Description

This program is for writers working in autobiography, fiction, and auto-fiction. With the support of guest faculty, participants will explore the distinctions and intersecting themes between genres, such as when to be beholden to the truth and when to break free from it, writing fiction vs. memoir (and how to decide which is which), and teasing satisfying narrative threads from real life. Through these themes and questions, guest faculty will help writers develop their own unique voice and approach to writing autobiography, memoir, and fiction.

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