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New essay in Reckoning 6
Check out my new essay in this amazing USA based publication focusing on themes of environmental justice. Reckoning 6 Reckoning 6 – Print Edition Preorder $20.00 Add to cart Reckoning 6, edited by Aïcha Martine Thiam and Gabriela Santiago, addresses the intersection between social upheaval and environmental change. “[I]t’s like a brief closing of the hand around something small and floating, framing it just long enough that we are able to look, really look at it. And then, if we can, we let it go.”—Aïcha Martine Thiam “It is not utopia. But it is what we can have, these careful negotiations, communications, challenges, and sharing. We have relationships. New, complicated,…
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The Art of Micro-Fiction
Tuesday March 21 2023 7-9 pm MT Sign Up Instructor: paulo da costa From one sentence-long to 1000 words stories, join paulo in learning the necessary skills to hone your writing craft in order to deliver a compact and compelling narrative. Learn to effectively distill a story down to its most impacting emotional moment. Successful micro-fictions leave a lasting impression on a reader’s mind. paulo has been writing sudden fiction since the 90’s and has published over 100 sudden fictions in his writing career. His micro fictions have won competitions, have been anthologized internationally, translated to other languages and recorded in audiobooks. His latest work, The Midwife of Torment and…
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Enclosures, Short-Listed for the 2023 Alberta Literary Awards
My creative non-fiction essay, Enclosures, published by Reckoning, has been short-listed for the James H. Gray Award for Short Nonfiction. Congratulations to the other two finalists as well. Marcello Di Cintio with “The Cowboy Exclaims” (Canadian Geographic) and Kyra Lark Koustrup with — “You and the Grass” (Freefall). If you are in Calgary please come and celebrate with us literary excellence and the Alberta’s writing community. Awards will be presented in nine categories that include fiction, nonfiction, drama, poetry, memoir, and children’s literature. Alberta Literary Awards Gala 2023 (in-person, Calgary): Saturday, June 3, 6:00 PM to 10:00PM. Location: Fort Calgary (750 9 Ave SE, Calgary, AB). Tickets for the gala are $50…
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New creative essay in Queen’s Quarterly
The Colours of Happiness, a new creative essay, published in the Winter issue of Queen’s Quarterly Review (Queen’s University in Ontario). Check it out. Winter 2021 Vol. 128 No. 4 From the Editor – Winter 2021 ~ James Carson Going for Ice at the Motel on Ocean Boulevard ~ Marc Plourde Lilac Clouds and Wind Chimes ~ Deidre Dwyer Crown of Vespers (poem) ~ Mazzy Sleep In the Neighborhood of Sickness and Love ~ Alexis David Reasons Not to Be Human #1, 46: Airbnb ~ Sara Salih Old Blue Jeans (poem) ~ Sarain Frank Soonias Soldier’s Heart ~ Tanya Bellehumeur-Allatt Healing Power, Present Wisdom (poem) ~ Meg Freer A Condensed History of Window Gazing ~ Christopher Cherney The Wash (poem) ~ Nicholas Bradley Playing…
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Grant(ed) – The Successful Grant
Teaching Grant(ed) – The Successful Grant Instructor: paulo da costa $45.00 Tuesday March 7 7-9pm MT – on-line Sign Up MEMBER PRICE: $33.75 (with member coupon AWCSM25) NON-MEMBER PRICE: $45.00 Do the writing grants seem like an unattainable mirage? What are jurors evaluating in the application project? How to make your strongest proposal in this ultra competitive field? Grant writing is both an art and a skill. Make your grant stand out from the hundreds in the pile. paulo has been an adjudicator for several Canadian grant organizations that provide funding to authors, and in his writing career has received numerous writing and research grants from the Canada Council, B.C Arts Council,…
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Poema na Bienal Internacional de Poesia de Oeiras
No âmbito da Bienal Internacional de Poesia de Oeiras a decorrer de 16 a 21 de Novembro 2021 aqui está a declamação de um dos meus poemas. https://youtu.be/bYchvlt0LkM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYchvlt0LkM
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Entrevistado na revista Descendências
paulo da costa entrevistado em português na revista Descendências. Uma voz recente, graficamente bonita e importante divulgadora da cultura lusófona em todo o mundo. Inclui artigos de muito interesse sobre o escritor Fernando Namora, assim como uma entrevista alargada com o Ministro dos Negócios Estrangeiros, Augusto Santos Silva e muito, muito mais. Delicie-se aqui… https://descendencias.pt/paulo-da-costa/ a r t e s e a r t i s t a s L USOS paulo da costa Nasceu em Luanda, cresceu em Portugal, fez a sua circum-navegação pelo mundo e decidiuficar a viver no Canadá. Foi por causa do seu en-contro com o urso, que decidiu ficar a viver no Canadá? Já agora…
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Writing mentorship with paulo da costa at AWC
Author Development Program (ADP) 2022/23 https://www.alexandrawriters.org/author-development-program.html Check out the details on how to work on your manuscript with me at the Alexandra Writers Centre during the 2023 ADP season. In person or remotely (anywhere in the country). Program Time Frame/Length: January 2023 – June 2023 (6 months) The program ends with a reading and celebration. This may be done online and will depend on the location of all participants. Program Fee:$100 non-refundable application fee (application fee will be deducted from program fee upon successful application.)$2700/participant (subsidies and flexible payment options available) please ask AWC Fee includes: One year AWCS membership, one-on-one story coaching, private workshops designed just for Story Makers,…
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Story on CKUA Radio
This week’s Blindman Brewing Session Story features the work of Calgary-based writer, editor, and translator, Paulo da Costa. Inspired by his winter walks through McHugh Bluff, In Motion explores the natural forces that shape our human endeavours and relationships. Listen at CKUA: To listen to this growing collection of stories, or check out these beautiful Super Stout labels, visit CKUA.com/sessionstories
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New Creative Essay in Prairie Fire
Fall 2020, Volume 41, No.3 $14.95 We’re all looking for a little more breathing space and something to hold on to during these troubled times. Living in a House on Fire asks how we live amidst the nameless despair that is constantly smouldering in the background of our lives. At times our despair rages like a forest fire as we grapple with the knowledge that we’re in the midst of mass extinction, leading to deep sadness, depression and anxiety. The stories, essays and poems in Living in a House on Fire give a voice to these worries, shine a light on the darkness humanity is facing, and offer a roadmap…
