2025 Author in Residence @ AWC
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| 2025 Writer in Residence: paulo da costa |
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| Born in Angola, and raised in Portugal, paulo da costa is a writer, editor and translator living in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies (Moh’kins’tsis / Calgary, Alberta). He is thrice the recipient of the James H. Gray Award for Short Nonfiction (2024, 2023 and 2020), the 2024 Outstanding Calgary Artist Award, as well as the 2003 Commonwealth First Book Prize for the Canada-Caribbean Region, the W. O. Mitchell City of Calgary Book Prize and the Canongate Prize for short-fiction. His poetry, fiction and non-fiction have been published widely in literary magazines around the world and translated into Italian, Spanish, Serbian, Slovenian and Portuguese.Trust the Bluer Skies: Meditations on Fatherhood, a book of creative non-fiction, was published in 2024 with University of Regina Press. https://www.paulodacosta.ca/ |
| September 2025 – November 2025 The Writer in Residence Program is an opportunity for members to have their work seen by an established, experienced Canadian author and to work with and discuss the writing world, landscape, publishing and all the nuances of living a creative life. Beginning in September, paulo will be available for one-on-one manuscript consultations, workshops, lectures and casual gatherings of writers to share ideas and be stimulated. Online and in person options will be available.Free consultations available to AWCS members in good standing. The full schedule and consultation registration will be available in late August. https://www.alexandrawriters.org/2025-writer-in-residence.html |
| Award-winning author paulo da costa meditates on fatherhood, place, and memory during a trip to his childhood home in Vale de Cambra, Portugal. During an extended stay in his childhood home in Portugal, author paulo da costa distills the wide-eyed innocence, joy, and curiosity of his four-year-old son as he meets his aging grandparents and explores an unfamiliar country and culture into a beautiful, tender, and poetic portrait of father-son relationships. Evocative and heartwarming, Trust the Bluer Skies is a literary time capsule—a father’s vivid account of his son’s early years, a sensory-rich journey through rural Portugal, and a poignant exploration of masculinities that is positive, compassionate, and nurturing.  |
| 2024 Cultural Leaders Legacy Arts Awards Outstanding Calgary Artist Award Winner: paulo da costa https://youtu.be/YkQHhe1Lo8k?si=OnWonNpTgeGXP8Qo |
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