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SSHRC Insight Grants -- 2 funding streams available
SSHRC has diversified its Insight Grant program and now offers Stream A and Stream B. Very exciting!
This change is meant to address a perceived bias encouraging larger and longer grants and to address a perception that there are currently no options for established scholars seeking smaller grants to support ongoing research.
2 SOFAM MFA grads make top 15 in RBC's painting contest!
Congratulations are in order for two SOFAM MFA grads whose paintings placed in the top 15 finalists for RBC's Canadian painting contest. Amanda Boulos and Ambera Wellmann are in the running for a cash prise of $25,000.
Professor Sandra Parmigiani featured in Canadian-Italian daily
Professor Sandra Parmigiani of SOLAL was recently featured in Corriere Canadese -- the Canadian-Italian community's daily newspaper. See the article here:http://www.corriere.com/index.php/en/interviste/1269-l-italiano-in-ontar... and celebrate all things Italian!
SETS: GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE NOMINEES
Two of three Griffin Poetry Prize short-listed poets are graduates of the Guelph Creative Writing MFA, Liz Howard and Soraya Peerbaye. Liz Howard is nominated for Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent (McClelland and Stewart), and Soraya Peerbaye is nominated for Tell: poems for a girlhood (Pedlar Press).
SETS: GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE
Congratulations to MFA grad Liz Howard who has won te 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize for her collection, Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent.
SETS: SETS GRADS AT WORK
Two SETS Theatre Studies graduates have recently been appointed to artistic directorships at major theatres, Thomas Morgan Jones at Theatre New Brunswick (one of the country's largest regional theatres) and Nina Lee Aquino to Toronto's Factory Theatre (one of the leading theatres in the country doing new work).
SETS: FACULTY AWARD
Professor Christine Bold has received the John Topham and Susan Redd Butler Off-campus Faculty Research Award from the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, Brigham Young University, for her research on "Vaudeville Indians." She will also be a plenary speaker at the ACCUTE conference in May 2016 in Calgary.
SETS: GILLER PRIZE NOMINEES
A University of Guelph graduate is the winner of this year’s prestigious Griffin Poetry Prize for Canadian poets, and is also the youngest winner in the competition’s history.
Liz Howard, a creative writing master of fine arts (MFA) graduate, was awarded the $65,000 prize for her first book, Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent. She accepted the award at a ceremony June 2 in Toronto. She also received $10,000 for taking part in the Griffin Prize readings the day before.