Ekphrasis (noun):
a literary description of or commentary on a visual work of art. It is an
exchange between the artist and the writer who uses words to interpret, inhabit
and imaginatively engage with the artist and the work.
From June 9th to June 22nd, 2023, regional writers are invited to view the artwork of the Open Sky Art Exhibit held at the Chetwynd Rec Centre in Chetwynd or online at opensky.peaceliardarts.org
Create an Ekphrastic piece or pieces inspired by the Open Sky artwork (writing can be poetry or prose, 200 words maximum per entry up to a maximum of three entries).
Send up to three submissions to Haley Bassett, Executive Director, Arts North East,
ed@artsnortheast.org by August 10th, 2023.
$10 fee per submission OR $25 ANE membership with no submission fees.
Moni Brar was born in rural India and raised in northern British Columbia on the land of the
Tse’Khene peoples. She has multiple nominations for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net and was the recipient of the 2022 Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal and the 2022 Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Emerging Artist Award. A finalist for the Montreal International Poetry Prize, she has received writing awards from PRISM, Grain, Room, The Fiddlehead, and The Ex-Puritan. Her work appears in Best Canadian Poetry, The Literary Review of Canada, Hobart, the League of Canadian Poets’ “Poem in Your Pocket” postcard series, and elsewhere. She believes art contains the possibility
of healing.
Please contact Haley Bassett at ed@artsnortheast.org with any questions regarding Ekphrastic Writing.
