Awards and Honours 1963-2020
With many thanks to London Arts Council and Ontario Arts Council for their ongoing and much needed support.
2020 London Arts Council Community Arts Investment Program (CAIP) for memoir
2020 Inaugural Muttsy Award for Renegade Creators
2019 London Arts Council Community Arts Investment Program (CAIP) for poetry
2019 Publishers' Recommender Grants for Writers (2)
2018 Recommender Grants for Writers
2018 Kalamaka Press Writer-in Residence, Caetani Cultural Centre, Vernon, BC. http://www.kalwriters.com/residency/residency.html
2018 London Arts Council Community Arts Investment Program (CAIP) for poetry
2017 London North Centre Inaugural Honour Roll, Canada Day
2017 London Arts Council Community Arts Investment Program (CAIP) for poetry
2016-17 Ontario Arts Council Literary Writers' Reserve grant
2016 London Arts Council Community Arts Investment Program (CAIP) for playwriting
2015 Poetry London Contest Winner
2015 Golden Beret Winner
2010-2 City of London Poet Laureate
2010 Western University Canada Council Writer in Residence
2001-02 Canada Council Creative Writing grant (poetry)
2000 Canada Council travel grant, International Symposium on Canadian Theatre University of Rajasthan, University of Mumbai, India (writing)
1999 Canada Council Spoken and Electronic Word pilot program (writing)
1994-95 Canada Council "B" grant (theatre)
1994 Canada Council Short Term Grant (writing)
1994 Toronto Arts Council Interim Cultural Grant (theatre)
1993 Toronto Arts Council Grant (poetry)
1991-92 Canada Council Senior Arts "A" Award (memoir)
1987-88 Ontario Graduate Scholarship
1974-94 Ontario Arts Council writer's grant (on publishers' recommendation)
1984, 1985 External Affairs Grant "Spring Festival for the Arts," Findhorn, Scotland
1985 Canada House travel grant, London England
1985 External Affairs Grant Institute for Fruhpadagogik, Munich; Freising, Landshut, West Germany
1981-82 Canada Council "B" grant (fiction)
1979-80 Canada Council "B" grant (poetry)
1981-93 Ontario Arts Council "Creative Artists in the Schools" grants (12)
1964-65 World University Service-Canada Exchange Scholarship (U.B.C.)
1963 U.W.O. Rhoda Ann Rinn Scholarship (for English Literature)
Penn Kemp's works copyright © the author.
2020 London Arts Council Community Arts Investment Program (CAIP) for memoir
2020 Inaugural Muttsy Award for Renegade Creators
2019 London Arts Council Community Arts Investment Program (CAIP) for poetry
2019 Publishers' Recommender Grants for Writers (2)
2018 Recommender Grants for Writers
2018 Kalamaka Press Writer-in Residence, Caetani Cultural Centre, Vernon, BC. http://www.kalwriters.com/residency/residency.html
2018 London Arts Council Community Arts Investment Program (CAIP) for poetry
2017 London North Centre Inaugural Honour Roll, Canada Day
2017 London Arts Council Community Arts Investment Program (CAIP) for poetry
2016-17 Ontario Arts Council Literary Writers' Reserve grant
2016 London Arts Council Community Arts Investment Program (CAIP) for playwriting
2015 Poetry London Contest Winner
2015 Golden Beret Winner
2010-2 City of London Poet Laureate
2010 Western University Canada Council Writer in Residence
2001-02 Canada Council Creative Writing grant (poetry)
2000 Canada Council travel grant, International Symposium on Canadian Theatre University of Rajasthan, University of Mumbai, India (writing)
1999 Canada Council Spoken and Electronic Word pilot program (writing)
1994-95 Canada Council "B" grant (theatre)
1994 Canada Council Short Term Grant (writing)
1994 Toronto Arts Council Interim Cultural Grant (theatre)
1993 Toronto Arts Council Grant (poetry)
1991-92 Canada Council Senior Arts "A" Award (memoir)
1987-88 Ontario Graduate Scholarship
1974-94 Ontario Arts Council writer's grant (on publishers' recommendation)
1984, 1985 External Affairs Grant "Spring Festival for the Arts," Findhorn, Scotland
1985 Canada House travel grant, London England
1985 External Affairs Grant Institute for Fruhpadagogik, Munich; Freising, Landshut, West Germany
1981-82 Canada Council "B" grant (fiction)
1979-80 Canada Council "B" grant (poetry)
1981-93 Ontario Arts Council "Creative Artists in the Schools" grants (12)
1964-65 World University Service-Canada Exchange Scholarship (U.B.C.)
1963 U.W.O. Rhoda Ann Rinn Scholarship (for English Literature)
Penn Kemp's works copyright © the author.