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, The Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Calgary Arts Development and Access Copyright.

The workshop will be organized in 5 steps to ensure optimal preparation for a successful grant proposal: organizational preparedness; in-depth research; clear, detailed and succinct writing; rapports; and post-mortem.

This is an interactive online class using the Zoom web platform.

paulo da costa is a writer, editor and translator living in Canada. He has been an adjudicator for several Canadian grant organizations that provide funding to authors, and in his writing career paulo has received numerous writing and research grants from the Canada Council, B.C Arts Council, The Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Calgary Arts Development and Access Copyright.

He is the recipient of the 2020 James H. Gray Award for Short Nonfiction, 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.

Learning to Shave, Learning to Leave, a book of creative non-fiction, is forthcoming with University of Regina Press. https://www.paulodacosta.ca/

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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 Other Stories is a collection of 60 sudden fictions.  

This workshop will take place IN PERSON at the Alexandra Writers’ Centre in Calgary.

paulo da costa is a writer, editor and translator living in Canada. He is the recipient of the 2020 James H. Gray Award for Short Nonfiction, 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.

Learning to Shave, Learning to Leave, a book of creative non-fiction, is forthcoming with University of Regina Press. https://www.paulodacosta.ca/

Writing mentorship with paulo da costa at AWC

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, and FOUR regularly scheduled workshops/or a class ($300 value) of your choosing throughout the term. 

Poetry, Long and Short Fiction (all genres) Creative Nonfiction ONLINE OR IN PERSON ?(Calgary and area)

paulo da costa is a writer, editor and translator living in Mohkintsis/Calgary. He is the recipient of the 2020 James H. Gray Award for Short Nonfiction, 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. The Midwife of Torment is his latest book of fiction.