Awards & Community

AWARDS

Grant Recipient - City of Ottawa Cultural Funding Program - Youth in Culture Pilot Program 2021

Grant Recipient - Ontario Arts Council - Recommender Grants for Writers 2021

First Place - POWER OF THE POETS Contest 2020 - "All we are, are cavities," an ekphrasis of Abbas Akhavan's variations on a landscape

Grant Recipient - City of Ottawa Cultural Funding Program - Youth in Culture Pilot Program 2020

First Place - Vallum Award for Poetry 2019 - "Grotto"

COMMUNITY

Editorial Collective - Room - Unceded Coast Salish Territories of the Musqueam, Tsleil Waututh, and Squamish people (Vancouver, British Columbia)

Poetry Reader - long con magazine - K'jipuktuk, Mi'kma'ki (Halifax, Nova Scotia)

Co-founder/Co-curator - Riverbed Reading Series - Unceded Algonquin Territory (Ottawa, Ontario)

Poetry Selector - Bywords.ca - Unceded Algonquin Territory (Ottawa, Ontario)

Founder/Organizer - Little Birds Poetry - Tkaronto* (Toronto, Ontario) & Unceded Algonquin Territory (Ottawa, Ontario)

IN THE MEDIA

CKCU: Poetry and The Taste of Longing - November 2020
Three storytellers join us to for an imaginary feast: Dawn Xanklin, Ellen Chang-Richardson and Adrian Cheater; with narration by Danielle K. L. Gregoire.

Fifteen Forthcoming Titles in the Time of Social Distancing - Room magazine - July 2020
Manahil Bandukwala highlights 15 recently published/forthcoming books by BIPOC authors.

In Town and Out with Giacomo Panico: Abma Wknd List - CBC Radio One - May 09, 2020
Sandra Abma highlights Riverbed Reading Series.

Riverbed aims to be Ottawa's first multidisciplinary performance reading series - April 28, 2020
Jamie MacPherson profiles the debut of Riverbed Reading Series in Apt613.

Little Birds: Ellen Chang-Richardson's poetry and short fiction editing group - April 15, 2020
Jamie MacPherson profiles Little Birds Poetry in Apt613.

Julian Day: Unlucky Fours by Ellen Chang-Richardson - April 01, 2020
Julian Day reviews my debut chap in periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics.

INTERVIEWS

A Visceral and All-Encompassing Experience: Interview with Ellen Chang-Richardson - January 27, 2021
Manahil Bandukwala talks to Ellen about her new chapbook, snap, pop, performance, out with Gap Riot Press, as well as the joys of collaborative work.

Interview with Shelley Niro, Room's Cover Art Contest Judge 2021 - January 27, 2021
Ellen Chang-Richardson chats with Shelley Niro about environmental stewardship, Niro’s films and multimedia art, and what she might be looking for in this year’s Cover Art contest.

Letter from Ottawa in the Form of A Roundtable Interview - September 1, 2020
Amanda Earl with Manahil Bandukwala, Ellen Chang-Richardson, Sanita Fejzić, Avonlea Fotheringham, Margo LaPierre, Leah MacLean-Evans, Mia Morgan, Namitha Rathinappillai & Helen Robertson.

Arts & Agitation: Interview with Poet Ellen Chang-Richardson - August 23, 2020
In depth interview discussing success, influence, style, colonial history, pandemic and the writing community.

Susan Robertson #AskingForAFriend - CKCU FM 93.1 - May 12, 2020
Today's a day of awesome conversations and performance. We'll hear from King Kimbit, Ellen Chang-Richardson, and Namitha Rathinappillai - all of whom are performing at In Our Tongues tonight. Bob Ledrew talks with Professor Margee Kerr about fear. Plus music by Linsey Wellman, Mia Kelly, the Young Novelists, Evangeline Gentle, Rose Cousins, Feist, Kalle Mattson, and Kathleen Edwards.

Chaudiere Books: Six Questions with Ellen Chang-Richardson - May 03, 2020
Conducted by rob mclennan.

Open Mic on Red Alder Review - April 10, 2020
Q&A with Michael Edwards.

The Small Machine Talks, Episode 53 - December 11, 2019
Hosted by Amanda Earl & a.m. kozak.
Listen via Soundcloud and Apple Podcasts

#TPQ5: Ellen Chang-Richardson - November 27, 2019
Conducted by Christopher Margolin.

"Ellen Chang-Richardson," poetry mini interviews: very short interviews with poets - August 21, 2019
Conducted by Thomas Whyte.