Almost immediately after completing my stay at the Tin House Summer Workshop, I jetted off to Sewanee, Tennessee, for the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. Three weeks of literary conferencing have been inspiring but also exhausting. So I haven’t had the wherewithal to post the news that I was selected as this year’s Borchardt Scholar at Sewanee!

I had the pleasure to meet literary agent Victoria Borchardt, whose agency is responsible for the award. The workshops and lectures and readings have now come to a close and I am headed back home brimful of ideas. It’s been a hectic and exciting literary summer but the experience has been memorable, exciting, and loads of fun. I am ever thankful to the Ontario Arts Council, who made all of this possible.