Nicole Sealey, photo by Rachel Eliza Griffiths.
The Spring Writers Literary Cabaret continues with Chapter 2.
This evening brings together a new group of writers-in-residence sharing original work across genres. Each chapter offers a different program, reflecting the range of voices participating in the Spring Writing Residency at Banff Centre.
Hosted by poet Nicole Sealey, author of The Ferguson Report: An Erasure, winner of the 2024 OCM Bocas Prize for Poetry, from which an excerpt was awarded the Forward Prize for Best Poem. She is also the author of Ordinary Beast, a finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and The Animal After Whom Other Animals Are Named, winner of the Drinking Gourd Chapbook Prize. She will guide the evening and conclude the program with a featured reading.
Enjoy a drink from the bar and the warm, intimate setting of CLVB ’33.
Doors open at 6:15 p.m., with readings beginning at 7:00 p.m. Stay afterward for an informal conversation with writers and faculty until 9:30 p.m.
About Nicole Sealey
Nicole Sealey
Nicole Sealey is the author of The Ferguson Report: An Erasure, winner of the 2024 OCM Bocas Prize for Poetry, and an excerpt from which was awarded the Forward Prize for Best Poem. She is also the author of Ordinary Beast, a finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and The Animal After Whom Other Animals Are Named, winner of the Drinking Gourd Chapbook Prize. With the poet John Murilla, she edited Dear Yusef: Essays. Letters and Poems, for and about One Mr. Komunyakaa. Her honours include the Arts and the Hodder Fellowships from Princeton University, a Cullman Centre Fellowship from the New York Public Library, a Rome Prize in Literature from the American Academy in Rome, the Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize from The American Poetry Review, the Poetry International Prize, and fellowships from CantoMundo, Cave Canem, the National Endowment from the Arts, and the New York Foundation for the Arts.