Kaylynn Walmsley, a Grade 12 student from Millarville, Alberta, was browsing her email when a message from King’s caught her attention. She opened it, read it and was surprised to learn that she won the 2024 King’s Essay Writing Contest. “My initial reaction was just shock,” said Walmsley. “I was at home with my brother…
Community, community, community. When three Master of Fine Arts graduands—Amy Cameron, Michaela Cavanagh and Joanna Cheek—were asked what distinguishes King’s Creative Nonfiction program, the answer was the same. “I’m now a part of an amazing writing community,” says Amy Cameron, who is unabashedly proud of herself for finishing the program. After sending in her last…
Gaby Milner A Halifax visit, a campus tour and the close-knit community nature of King’s sparked her interest, but it was the Foundation Year Program (FYP) lecture Gaby Milner attended that clinched it. “I went to a lecture on Christopher Marlowe’s Dr. Faustus that King’s gave in Toronto. No other school actually came to me…
Victoria Slamovits’ path reflects the synthesis of an education in the liberal arts and music. The two have gone hand-in-hand—she can’t have one without the other. “I graduated high school in 2019, and I wanted to go straight into music at Dal,” she explains. “But I wasn't quite at the level of being considered to…
Raeesa Alibhai When Raeesa Alibhai arrived at King’s for her second year in the fall of 2021, she dug in. Her first year had been online due to the pandemic and she was intent on making up for the in-person first year she’d missed. “I jumped into the community as fast as I could,” she…
Simone Blais is visiting the Crowsnest Museum & Archives. A community made up of several small towns huddled in the Rocky Mountains, Crowsnest Pass Municipality is a long way from her home of Kelowna, British Columbia. Blais is here on a mission. The museum’s archivist is more than happy to help, offering Blais full access…
As a poet who works, who goes to school, has homework and assignments, and let’s face it, has laundry and dishes to do, the trick is finding time to write—and longer than a stolen hour here and there. But for Asher Cookson, 28, that dream has come within reach. In the final year of his…
King's Women's Volleyball have finalized the signing of Ava Perkins of Edmonton, Alta., ahead of the 2024-25 season. As a 5'11 middle blocker, Ava represents Nooks Volleyball Club and the Strathcona High School Lords and won the Edmonton City Championship in 2021, placed as runner up in 2o22 and finished 3rd overall in the Division…
Each month, we ask a member of faculty to tell us about one book that played an outsized role in making them who they are today. This month, on the eve of his retirement, Associate Professor of Humanities, the Rev. Dr. Tom Curran forswears the standard Q&A format and shares his Words to Live By.…