Dominika Prejdova
January 2025
Czech writer and screenwriter, film critic and journalist, festival curator, author of the novel Marijin dvor (2009), her second novel Z čeho je den (2021) won the Czech Book Club 2021 Literary Award. She co-authored the concept and screenplay of the TV series Black Daisies (2024) for CANAL+ .
Born in Prague, she has been living in Warsaw since 2011.
Hannah Davis
February 2025
Hannah Bel Davis is a writer and visual artist working and creating on the traditional and unceded land of the Halkomelem-speaking peoples, also known as New Westminster. She has an MA in Creative Writing from Concordia University and a BFA in Film and English from Simon Fraser University. Her work has been published in People Department Magazine and Font.
Kelly Cooper
March 2025
Kelly Cooper teaches art and writes poetry, short fiction, and most recently, books for children (If a Horse Had Words, 2018 and Midnight and Moon, 2022). Kelly grew up on the Saskatchewan prairie and now lives on a dairy farm in New Brunswick with her husband, her daughters, a hundred cows, a silly dog and a six-toed cat. She started her relationship with horses at age two, when she fed a pail of oats to a large horse named King.
Cori Brewster
April 2025
Cori Brewster is a singer songwriter. She has released five CD’s, performed across Canada, Germany, and New Zealand, taught songwriting workshops, and co-wrote songs with some masterful songwriters. She is currently polishing a project called 55 ~ 5 Songs 5 Stories (memoir essay collection)to be released in 2025.
Cori’s intention while at the Wallace Stegner House is to begin a new project. The re-storying of her family’s history. The Brewster’s first arrived in Banff in 1881. They were white colonial settlers who displaced indigenous peoples when they arrived. Peoples who have inhabited the area in and around present-day Banff for more than 10,000 years.
Memet Burnett
May 2025
Memet Burnett is a sculptor, potter, painter, printmaker, photographer, poet, storywriter, and fiddler, and also a life-long naturalist, cold water swimmer and a retired veterinarian.
Michael Kenyon
June 2025
Michael Kenyon was born in Sale, England, and has lived on the West Coast since 1967. He’s the author of five books of poetry and eight of fiction and four chapbooks. He has been employed as a seaman, a diver and a taxidriver. Presently he works as a freelance editor and a therapist and lives in Victoria.
Kent McNeil
August 2025
Kent McNeil is an Emeritus Distinguished Research Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, where he taught from 1987 to 2016. His research focuses on the rights of Indigenous peoples in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States. In 2007, he received a Killam Fellowship to pursue this research. In 2019, he was the Law Foundation of Saskatchewan H. Robert Arscott Chair at the University of Saskatchewan College of Law, his alma mater.
Todd Korol
September 2025
Todd Korol is a Canadian photographer known for his compelling images of the Canadian Prairies. He specializes in capturing the beauty of rural landscapes, farming life, and the natural world. His work often highlights the vastness and solitude of the prairies, portraying both the expansive skies and the intimate details of everyday life in the rural heartlands. Korol’s photography is characterized by its use of light, composition, and texture, creating images that evoke a sense of place and connection to the land.
House Improvements
October 2025
During this month we will be completing much needed repairs on the house including window replacement and bathroom upgrades.
If you’d like to support this improvements please get in touch via email to artscouncileastend@gmail.com
Robert Leblanc
November 2025
Dr. Robert Jean LeBlanc is Associate Professor of ELA/Literacy and Board of Governors Research Chair in Literacy Studies at the University of Lethbridge. He holds a PhD in Reading/Writing/Literacy from the University of Pennsylvania, where he received the 2017 Outstanding Dissertation Award from the AERA Catholic Education SIG. A former high school English teacher, he conducts research on literacy, classroom discourse, and secondary ELA.
Jenny Clark
December 2025
Jenny Clark’s current work is a love letter to fire ecology, kindled when she watched her beloved valley of the Rocky River in Jasper National Park burn in 2003. While her previous work had been based in her exposure to art therapy, Buddhist meditation, 5-element acupuncture and Abstract art, the fire paintings are a mix of her scientific knowledge of wildfire and her long habit of painting abstractly from the subconscious.