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. For the 2010-2011 academic year, the Fellowships are worth $10,000 each and the recipients are:

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. 

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.