Upcoming and Recent Events
Writer-in-Residence Cody Caetano at LitFest: "Close Encounters of the Native Kind"
In partnership with LitFest, the CLC is hosting author, literary agent, and 2025-26 U of A Writer-in-Residence Cody Caetano for his talk "Close Encounters of the Native Kind."
Date: Wednesday, October 15
Time: 12:00-1:00 PM
Location: Henderson Hall (Rutherford Library South 1-17), U of A
This event is free and open to the public.
For more information about this event and the full schedule for LitFest 2025, click .
Reading + Conversation: "Extraordinary Ordinary Notes" with Christina Sharpe
In collaboration with Dr. Michael A. Bucknor, the CLC is hosting Dr. Christina Sharpe, Canada Research Chair in Black Studies in the Humanities, for a Reading and Conversation event about her book Ordinary Notes.
Date: Wednesday, October 1
Time: 12:00-1:30 PM
Location: Henderson Hall (Rutherford Library South 1-17), U of A
This event is free and open to the public. Copies of Christina Sharpe's books will be for sale at the event, and light refreshments will be provided.
For more information about Professor Sharpe, her work, and other events happening on campus during her visit, click HERE.
A Meet + Greet and Double Book Launch
Join the Centre for Literatures in Canada and the Department of English and Film Studies in welcoming the 2025-26 Writer-in-Residence, Cody Caetano, and celebrating the launch of new books from EFS members Conor Kerr and Jason Purcell.
Time: 3:00-4:30 PM
Location: Salter Reading Room (Humanities Centre 3-95), U of A
3:00 PM: Refreshments, book sales, and mingling
3:30 PM: Introductions, readings, Q + A
This event is free and open to the public.
For more information about each author, click HERE.
Scholarly Conversation: "The National Epics Project and the Problem of 'Epic' in Canada"
Join the CLC and the Department of English and Film Studies for a scholarly conversation about the project with its creator and editor, Dr. David Wallace, and contributing author Dr. Sarah Krotz.
Date: Wednesday, September 10
Time: 4:00-5:00 PM
Location: Salter Reading Room, Humanities Centre 3-95, U of A
This event is free and open to the public.
For more information about the event and speakers, check out our Latest News.
Reading + Conversation Recording: Multi- and Translingual Poetry and Poetics
This final instalment in the CLC’s 2024-25 "Polyphonies" Series features poets, translators, and scholars Klara du Plessis, Khashayar “Kess” Mohammadi, Erín Moure, and Odile Cisneros. These multilingual writers contemplate the effects and objectives of languages intersecting in poetry, through translations of and readings in Afrikaans, Czech, English, French, Persian, and Portuguese.
For more information and to listen, visit our Podcast page.
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Reading + Conversation Recording: Jami Reimer and shalan joudry
From the CLC Readings and Conversations series comes a new podcast episode featuring interdisciplinary composer Jami Reimer, who discusses her bioacoustic opera based on the metamorphic life of a frog, and Mi’kmaw storyteller shalan joudry, whose multilingual experimental work reflects on “grief, truth-seeking, and communal healing.”
For more information and to listen, visit our Podcast page.
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Congratulations to the Winners of the 2025 Student Poetry Contest
The CLC congratulates Alexis De Villa and Teren Hazzard as joint first-place winners of our 2025 Student Poetry Contest!
To read the poems and bios from the winning poets, click HERE.
The Gateway interviewed the winning poets about their interpretation of this year's poetry contest theme: polyphony. Read the interview .
Thank you to the jury members, our partners and sponsors, and all the students who submitted poems.
2025 Kreisel Lecture with David A. Robertson
Two-time Governor General's Literary Award-winning writer David A. Robertson gave the 19th annual Kreisel Lecture, "On Writing as Social Activism," in March 2025.
David's lecture will be published by ¶®É«µÛ Press in early 2026.
2024 Kreisel Lecture with Kate Beaton
Award-winning cartoonist and author Kate Beaton gave the 18th annual Kreisel Lecture, "Bodies of Art, Bodies of Labour," in March 2024.
Kate's lecture is also available in print from
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