Teaching

Grant(ed) – The Successful Grant

Instructor: paulo da costa

$45.00 Tuesday March 7 7-9pm MT – on-line Sign Up

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Do the writing grants seem like an unattainable mirage? What are jurors evaluating in the application project? How to make your strongest proposal in this ultra competitive field? Grant writing is both an art and a skill. Make your grant stand out from the hundreds in the pile.

paulo has been an adjudicator for several Canadian grant organizations that provide funding to authors, and in his writing career has received numerous writing and research grants from the Canada Council, B.C Arts Council, The Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Calgary Arts Development and Access Copyright.

The workshop will be organized in 5 steps to ensure optimal preparation for a successful grant proposal: organizational preparedness; in-depth research; clear, detailed and succinct writing; rapports; and post-mortem.

This is an interactive online class using the Zoom web platform.

paulo da costa is a writer, editor and translator living in Canada. He has been an adjudicator for several Canadian grant organizations that provide funding to authors, and in his writing career paulo has received numerous writing and research grants from the Canada Council, B.C Arts Council, The Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Calgary Arts Development and Access Copyright.

He is the recipient of the 2020 James H. Gray Award for Short Nonfiction, the 2003 Commonwealth First Book Prize for the Canada-Caribbean Region, the W. O. Mitchell City of Calgary Book Prize and the Canongate Prize for short-fiction. His poetry, fiction and non-fiction have been published widely in literary magazines around the world and translated into Italian, Spanish, Serbian, Slovenian and Portuguese.

Learning to Shave, Learning to Leave, a book of creative non-fiction, is forthcoming with University of Regina Press. https://www.paulodacosta.ca/