The Fellowships fund graduate students working in creative writing and/or oral culture and they may be held in addition to other scholarships. The recipients are chosen based on their record of academic achievement, plan of research and letters of reference.

CCWOC is pleased to announce the 2011-2012 recipients of these fellowships, Christy Reed and Alon D. Weinberg. 

Christy Reed is a PhD student in Peace and Conflict Studies. She will investigate the potential for oral story and communally sung music to serve as a foundation for social change, particularly among communities that experience institutional silencing by the state in West Papua.

Alon D. Weinberg is an MA student in the department of Native Studies. By studying oral narratives, he will examine Anishinaabeg (Ojibway) responses to the introduction of all-weather roads in the east shore boreal forest region of Lake Winnipeg.

Please watch this page for information about applying for a C. D. Howe Memorial Foundation Fellowship in Creative Writing & Oral Culture for the 2013-2014 academic year.

2010-2011 - Sean Braun, who will be entering the department of English, Film & Theatre as an MA student. His thesis project is to write "'Spectres of the Border': A Prairie Gothic on the Frontier." Set in the early 1900s and drawing upon Southern Gothic and American Western literary traditions, this novel will examine what it means to live at the perimeter of an expanding territory at the boundary between nations, cultures, races and histories, and it will challenge Canada's own Western myth of quiet peaceful expansion, revealing the tensions, both private and national, at the crest of an advancing frontier.

2010-2011 - Daria Patrie, an MA student in the department of English, Film & Theatre. Her thesis project is to write a collection of short stories focusing on the confluence of two major narratives: artificial intelligence and zombies. Examining the beauty and the horror of both the disembodied mind and the dis-minded body, this collection will interrogate maternal love, respect for life/death, truth as art, art as lie, and the potential for "humanity" itself to be a fabrication.

2009-2010 - Gordon Blackburde, an MA student in Native Studies. His thesis project is "Sustainable Community Development on Rainy River First Nation" and it is based on textual analysis and field work including interviews.