Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity

Or you're daydreaming or you're off on a phone call and you drill 20 feet of sand and you totally missed it.

Elena and I met during an artist residency at the Banff Center 10 years ago.

We both spent a lot of our time there going for walks in the mountains and forests of the Rockies and along frozen streams.

I carried a camera and a sound recorder, and she held dowsing rods.

So I started doing these walks kind of near and around the Banff Center, going out into the woods.

It was quite cold and snowy.

I would just find a tool to work with.

Yeah.

I want to kind of turn to the future because part of winning the CBC Nonfiction Prize is it does come with this two-week writing residency at the Banff Centre.

What are your hopes for how you're going to use that time?

I've started working on a hybrid collection of poetry, and I'm hoping that's what I will be working on when I'm there.

And if our conversation has you feeling inspired to write, I've got good news.

Submissions for the CBC Short Story Prize are open from now until November 1st.

The winner receives $6,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts and a two-week residency at the Leighton Artist Studios at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity.

You can head to cbcbooks.ca for all the details on how to enter.

His client list has included people like CBC, Disney, CAA, TELUS, Canada Games.

He's been on panels at the Banff Arts Centre, right? He's also sat on the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television.

Please...

Oh, and his latest venture is Branded to Film, which is a...

until November 1st for submission.

So just so you know, if you're sharpening your pencils, what you'll get if you win, $6,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts, a two-week writing residency at the Leighton Artist Studios at the Banff Centre, and your work will be published on CBC Books.

Thanks so much for dropping by, Daphne.

Always a pleasure.

And we just booked Mr. Leo Houlding for a live podcast.

That's Saturday, November 7th, 10:00 AM, on the Rab Stage at the Banff Centre in Banff, BC.

You can hear the last two back in the feed here on The Enormocast, the first one with Barry Blanchard two years ago, and last year with Elias Mil Ru.

Both turned out great, thanks to awesome guests, and I can't imagine Leo will be any different.

The simplicity and directness of Anne's translations are a huge part of what made Sappho's poetry resonate with me, particularly as I was 19 and 20 years old during that course, and I was fresh off of some of my own first experiences with young love and heartbreak.

Back in 2011, Anne was doing a residency at the Banff Center for Arts and Creativity, and that's when she spoke to Eleanor Wachtel for the first time.

Anne had recently published her book Nox, that's N-O-X, which means night.

It's an elegy to her brother and a moving reflection on absence.

So crime fiction is...

In fact, I'm right now here as we speak, I'm in Canada at Banff Arts Centre, which is this very prestigious Canadian arts residency, and they have an inaugural crime fiction residency where some of the-- nineteen of the best emerging Canadian crime writers are here.

I'm teaching them along with two other faculty.

So I am marketed as a crime writer, uh, interestingly enough.

And that was with Afior.

We did that in 2012 at the Banff Center, and we had done the Juilliard residency, the fellowship residency from 2009 to 2011, so we had gotten to know him very well.

And the quartet itself was going through transition at the time of violinists, so we-- It was really Ron Copes, Sam Rhodes, and Joel Krosnick that we got to know the best just because-

Hmm

I've spent some time in Canada.

I had a residency at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity where I was working on a novel.

some years ago.

But that aside, there is some overlap in terms of the development of both nations.