Prizes, Fellowships & Support

Clarisse Baleja Saïdi’s work is supported and recognized by the following:

2025

Storyknife Retreat

Ontario Arts Council Literary Creation Grant

2024

Macdowell Fellowship

Yaddo- Jacob Lawrence Fellow

Canada Council for the Arts, Research and Creation Grant- Fiction

2023

2022-2023 Richard McCann Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship

Ontario Arts Council Literary Creation Project Grant

2022

Toronto Arts Council Individual Grant

Art Omi Writer-in-Residence

MacDowell Alumni Residency

2021

2021 CBC Nonfiction Prize Longlist

Cultural Foundation Schloss Wiepersdorf Fellowship, Germany

Canada Council for the Arts, Research and Creation Grant- Nonfiction

2020

Monson Arts Residency, Libra Foundation

Gibraltar Point, Toronto Artscape Foundation

Museu da Luz Artist Residency Program, Portugal

2019

Carraig-na-gcat Residency, Joseph and Anni Albers Foundation, Ireland

Willapa Bay Artist-in-Residence

I-Park Foundation Multidisciplinary International Residency

Vermont Studio Center Voices Rising Fellowship

Yaddo Fellowship Residency

Crosstown Arts Withers Residency

MacDowell Residency

2018

Traulsen International Travel Grant

Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation Writers’ Aid

LaNapoule Art Foundation Group Residency, France

Whiting Foundation Grant

Hedgebrook Residency, Political/Activist Writing

University Musical Society’s Artist-in-Residence

2017

DeFilippis-Rosselli Scholarship, 2017 Napa Valley Conference

Hopwood Drama Contest Award- Third Place

Theodore Roethke Poetry Prize

2016

Aiken Burd Travel Research Grant

Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop

Hopwood Novel Contest Award- First Place

Hopwood Nonfiction Award- First Place

John Wagner Prize

2015

Helen Zell Fellowship, 2015-2018

Huza Press Inaugural Short Story Award, Shortlist

The Marina Nemat Creative Writing Award, First Place

2014

Penguin Random House Canada, Short Story Award

University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies Bursary

Upcoming Rewards