Join us for a celebration of the 9th annual SAAG Writing Prize participants! This writing competition encourages and recognizes the work of emerging arts writers in Alberta and BIPOC+ writers within Canada.
This year, we are honored to introduce the Aruna D’Souza Arts Writing Prize [BIPOC+ Arts Writing]. The award is named after Aruna D'Souza who will also be a guest juror. D'Souza writes about race in modern and contemporary art, intersectional feminisms, and how museums shape our views of each other and the world. Her most recent book, Whitewalling: Art, Race, and Protest in 3 Acts (Badlands Unlimited), was named one of the best art books of 2018 by the New York Times. She is currently editing two forthcoming volumes, Making It Modern: A Linda Nochlin Reader, and Lorraine O’Grady: Writing in Space 1973-2018, and is co-curator of the upcoming retrospective of Lorraine O’Grady’s work, Both/And, which will open in March 2021 at the Brooklyn Museum.
Applicants are invited to submit to the following categories:
SAAG Arts Writing Prize [Arts Writing]
Long form text, critical essay, and exhibition review.
This category is eligible for Alberta-based arts writers.
SAAG Arts Writing Prize [Poetry & Prose]
Long form text, fiction, non-fiction. poetry, and experimental writing.
This category is eligible Alberta-based arts writers.
Aruna D’Souza Arts Writing Prize [BIPOC+ Arts Writing]
Open format category of arts writing in any style, long or short form awarded to an author who self-identifies as Black, Indigenous, or as a Person of Colour.
This category is eligible for Canadian (citizen or resident) arts writers.
Thank you to Dr. Usha D’Souza, Dr. Cyril D’Souza and Carol Williams for their support of this event.