File contains Budge Wilson's applications for grants, clippings and newsletters announcing awards and prizes won by Wilson, and programs from awards' ceremonies. The awards/prizes include the CBC Literary Competition, Canadian Children's Book Centre Memorable Canadian Books for Young People, Nova Scotia's Aid to Established Writers Award, the Canadian Library Association Young Adult Book Award, Canada Council for the Arts' grants, and the Ann Connor Brimer award from the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia.
File contains two annotated drafts of Budge Wilson's short story "The Reunion," and a copy of the story as it appeared in The Sunday Star, as the Judges' Choice for the Star short story contest. One of the drafts bears the pseudonym "Anna MacGregor."
File contains Budge Wilson's notes, correspondence, and programs for the Sharla Project, which included appearances in Churchill, Winnipeg, and Mexico City. The Canadian portion of the trip went from October 26 to November 4, 1998.
File contains programs and a newspaper clipping that Budge Wilson collected from the Mexican City Book Fair, which she attended as part of the Sharla Project.
File contains a copy of the report prepared by Mary Culham and Pierre Sved on the Sharla Project, including a description of the project, program, a financial report, and reports from the winners of the short story competition (Maria-Fernanda Manzano and Natalia Morris), including copies of their winning submissions.
File also contains two letters written to Budge Wilson from "Jean" of The Children's Book Centre and a flyer advertising Wilson's appearance at the North Battleford Library.
File contains correspondence from, and copies of Budge Wilson's correspondence to, the Institute for Early Childhood Education and Developmental Services (IECEDS) in Truro, Nova Scotia regarding Wilson's guest speech at their convocation. The file also contains a copy of a newspaper clipping with the Fall graduates, a copy of the convocation program, and Brenda Putnam's introductory speech for Wilson.
File contains a copy of Budge Wilson's memorial talk for Margaret Laurence, delivered at Trent University on February 2, 1987 and later published in the Canadian Woman Studies journal. The file also contains a copy of the program from Wilson's memorial tribute and a copy of an article on Budge Wilson's address at the Halifax Main Library on Margaret Laurence.
File contains copies of two articles published in the journal Atlantis (Vol. 20, no. 1) that reference Budge Wilson: "Maritime Women: A Place of Their Own: Cultural and Literary Traditions and Change" by Donna E. Smyth and "'Brightly, aggressively golden': Verbal Agency in Budge Wilson's The Leaving," by Janice Kulyk-Keefer.
File contains clippings and copies of correspondence relating to Budge Wilson's involvement in the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia and the International Board on Books for Young People.
File contains clippings relating to Budge Wilson's Mexico trips, including to Guadalajara (November 1996), Mexico City (November 1997), and for the Sharla Project (November 1999).
File contains programs from awards ceremonies from awards that Budge Wilson was nominated for and/or won, including the City of Dartmouth Book Ward (for Cordelia Clark, 1995); the Ann Connor Brimer Award (for Sharla, 1998); and the Children's Book Week Gala (at which Wilson gave the Ann Connor Brimer Keynote Address in 1999).
File contains a copy of the biographies of authors in "Notes Across the Aisle," edited by Peter Carver and published y Thistledown Press Ltd., including Budge Wilson, who contributed the short story "My War."
