[BCMA] [media release - Caetani Cultural Centre] NEW! KALAMALKA PRESS WRITER IN RESIDENCE PROGRAM

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Public Service Announcement
For Immediate Release


NEW! KP at C3 WiR - KALAMALKA PRESS WRITER IN RESIDENCE PROGRAM
Sponsored Writer-in-Residency, Kalamalka Press and Okanagan College

The Caetani Cultural Centre is partnering with Kalamalka Press and Okanagan
College to offer this redesigned Writer-in-Residence program. This
collaboration is intended to serve as a conduit between regional
and national literary cultures by welcoming authors of any genre from
across Canada to the North Okanagan to live and write and commune.

The KP at C3WiR includes four weeks of accommodation and studio space at the
Caetani Cultural Centre, with the possibility of extended stay, as well as
a $1000 honorarium. Writers are responsible for their own transportation,
food, and supplies.

*“I arrived in the Okanagan expecting the gorgeous mountains and keen
students, but what disarmed me and made the Kalamalka Press
Writer-in-Residence position unique were the flourishes: the comedic sound
of horse chestnuts falling on daydreaming cars, the casual sublime of the
Enderby cliffs, the open hearts of the many writers living in the valley,
the stories I heard in my favourite Vernon bar, the extravagance of Caravan
Farm Theatre’s Halloween party, the visiting artist from Saskatchewan who
knelt for a week in the front yard rearranging those fallen chestnuts into
a more human pattern and, through it all, day and night, the courteous
ghost of Sveva Caetani, my taciturn and moody companion, who roamed the
Caetani House and helped with my negligence by gently shutting cupboard
doors I absentmindedly left open behind me.”*
~Moez Surani, 2015 Writer-in-Residence

For over ten years, Kalamalka Press and Okanagan College operated a
writer-in-residency plan in coordination with the Mackie Lake House
Society. This program brought to the region numerous talented
poets, essayists, and novelists, including Dennis Cooley, Robert Kroetsch,
Mona Fertig, Brenda Schmidt, Gary Geddes, Peter Midgley, Leona Theis, and
Kathleen Brown. Several of these authors have published notable creative
and critical works that were composed or conceived of during their Mackie
Lake House residencies. In 2015, the program was moved to the more
centrally-located Caetani Cultural Centre, in part, to accommodate longer
tenancies for visiting writers.

Writers-in-Residence are encouraged to participate in or facilitate a
community event or two, such as a reading, visits to creative writing
classes, or a public writing workshop. The Caetani Cultural Centre
and Kalamlka Press will help facilitate these events. As a relatively new
program, the Caetani Centre is interested in feedback and constructive
criticism, and requests that the participant submit an exit survey
upon completion of their project. Writers-in-Residence are also invited to
contribute a book or text to the Caetani Cultural Centre’s community
library.

The residency is scheduled for the month of October, 2016 and is open to
emerging and established writers in any genre: poetry, fiction,
playwriting, new media, nonfiction, hybrid works, etc. Applications for
this season should be emailed no later than March 25, 2016. Note that dates
are tentative and may change or be flexible. Please apply on-line via our
website (www.caetani.ca). Applicants are asked to provide an introductory
cover letter, a literary curriculum vitae, and brief proposal of work to be
completed during the residency.

For more information please visit our website www.caetani.ca
http://caetaniculturalcentre.org/artist-residencies/air-programs/kalamalka-press-writer-in-residence-program/



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Gabrielle Strong
Program & Events Coordinator
Caetani Cultural Centre
www.caetaniculturalcentre.org
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