Brian Braganza awarded Susan Buchanan Hideout scholarship
/Hideout residencies designed for writers, wellness practitioners
Nova Scotia writer Brian Braganza has won the 2025 Susan Buchanan Hideout scholarship. The scholarship will allow Braganza the opportunity to attend a one-week writing residency to work at The Hideout.
“Once again this year, we were blown away by the quality of the applications and the range of exceptional projects proposed for Hideout residencies,” says Hideout co-owner Joshua Lewis. “Brian’s collection Landings explores Brian’s experience of navigating largely white rural and outdoor wilderness spaces as a racialized man. His writing is lucid, curious, and grounded in embodied personal experience. We look forward to supporting Brian’s project this year.”
The Hideout residencies provide a low-cost opportunity for writers, wellness practitioners, and other artists to remove themselves from responsibilities and dedicate themselves fully to their creative and personal practice. Susan Buchanan was a well-known Island writer and disability activist who ran a bed and breakfast called The Evening Primrose at The Hideout property with her life partner Jeanne Sullivan.
Brian Braganza had lived on three continents by the time he was four. He now lives on Mi’kmaqi. Brian is writing a collection of essays about belonging and our relationship to land, place, and community for healing.
To learn more about the Hideout residency program, visit the residency website.
About The Hideout Residency Program
Located on PEI’s South Shore, The Hideout is a vacation and retreat property co-founded by author Trevor Corkum and therapist Joshua Lewis. The Hideout residency program provides low-cost opportunities for writers, artists, and wellness practitioners from across Canada and the world to spend a week focused on their practice. Each year, up to two full Susan Buchanan Hideout scholarships are awarded. Hideout scholars join a line-up of invited artists, a national writer-in-residence, and writers and practitioners chosen through a general application process.
