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• The Queer Agenda

  Funded 2021-2022 The Queer Agenda is a recurring zine publication looking to give a platform to queer voices. They exist to uplift and promote voices from the community and want to educate their audience on experiences different from their own, and show their own experiences so they feel supported and not alone. The goal of this project at its inception was to produce something for our community to showcase the lives and experiences of queer people.

• Indigenous Graduate Student Writing Retreat

  Funded 2021-2022

• How To Get A Thigh Gap

  Funded 2021-2022 How To Get A Thigh Gap is a multimedia project by Nisha Patel (she/her) and Bree Meiklejohn (she/her). Nisha Patel is an artist specializing in poetry and spoken word was the 2019-2021 City of Edmonton Poet Laureate. Nisha’s work explores themes including disability and ableims, illness, identity and race, and her life as a queer South Asian woman. Bree is a University of Alberta student studying English and Creative Writing who writes to themes of marginalization, including fatphobia and sexism, mental illness and disability, and works towards using her artistic work to explore social justice and the role of the arts in achieving it. The multimedia photo/poetry series, How to Get A Thigh Gap, will articulate systemic fatphobia through creatively rewriting the WikiHow Article “How to Get a Thigh Gap” (writing and illustration laden with fatphobia), and replacing the illustrations with self-taken photos exploring fat joy in a fat body.

• Creative Writing Club Anthology

  Funded 2021-2022 The Creative Writing Club is a student group whose mission is to provide a social space for students interested in writing at the University of Alberta to network, learn, and practice their craft in a supportive environment. The Creative Writing Club Anthology is a publication of student- and/or alumni written and edited fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and flash fiction. The Anthology aims to provide the university community with a creative publishing opportunity that is accessible to all kinds of writing, regardless of style, topic or past publishing experience. Additionally, this project seeks to include voices that are underrepresented in the Canadian literary world, including those of women, BIPOC, LGBTQ+2S, neurodiverse, and disabled writers. Keep in touch with the Creative Writing Club on facebook! https://www.facebook.com/TheCrWUofA/

• Griffin Poetry Reading Extravaganza

  Funded 2018-2019

• Exploring Identity Through Graphic Novels

  Funded 2018-2019 Queer Muslim Graphic Novel Project.

• The CrW

  Funded 2020-2021 University of Alberta's Creative Writing Club. A social space for writers on campus.

• Indigenous Poets’ Society

  Funded 2020-2022 Their goal is to help promote healing, growth, leadership, connection, and resiliency through poetry. They come together not only to discuss social struggles, but to heal by celebrating connections with land, culture, history and identity. They provide a space where Indigenous poets can feel heard and understood by their own people and sometimes allies. They also support new poets who wish to branch out and share their words with the rest of the world. Poets of all levels, styles, and ages are welcome.

• Writing Revolution in Place (WRIP)

  Funded 2017-2018 A grassroots reading and writing group that collaborates with Humanities 101 at the University of Alberta.

• Sapling Poet Tree

  Funded 2015-2017 Sapling Poet Tree is a spoken word organization for marginalized youth in Edmonton. It seeks to enrich, problematize, and revist perspectives on youth poverty and on the nature of the limitations that people labeled as “poor” experience, while challenging the estimation that the youth’s problem are not systemic. Sapling Poet Tree mentors young poets in a manner that is driven by grass roots approaches to vocal empowerment, literary proficiency, and self recognition. Sapling Poet Tree creates artifacts evidential of the real existence, progress, struggles and realization of youth, all working toward the radical disruption of value systems, economic systems and justice systems that would cast these young people, and all of us at various junctures of our intersectionality, as inhuman.

• Blood Ink

  Funded 2005-2007 Blood Ink is a literary journal published quarterly by students at the University of Alberta. Blood Ink’s mission is to provide U of A students with a flexible forum for showcasing experimental writing.

• The Olive

  Funded 2003-2011 The Olive is a non-profit editorial collective established by students and former students at the University of Alberta in 2000 to provide a regular and consistent forum for poetry in Edmonton. The mandate of the organization is to feature local writers and poets from across Canada. The Olive fosters an environment where local writers and poetry enthusiasts can interact with artists from the larger literary community.

• Fait Accomplit

  Funded 2002-2003 Fait Accomplit is a biannual creative/critical literary journal that was originally founded in 1985 by the graduate students of the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Alberta.