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 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 drafts for speeches given by Budge Wilson, including to Larry Amey's class at Dalhousie University; a speech on Oliver's Wars; and a talk on Margaret Laurence at the Wenjack Theatre at the University of Trent.
File consists of a thank you letter from Genevieve Mullally, Workplace Education Program, Queen Elizabeth II Health Science Centre, to Budge Wilson regarding talk Budge gave to a class of the Workplace Education Program. Includes a graduation program with a hand-written note to Budge Wilson. Also includes the report from the Workplace Education Program for 1998-99 with a review and photographs of the visit by Budge Wilson.
File contains records relating to a conference at Dalhousie University, "The Creation, Dissemination and Preservation of Literature: A Conference of Professionals from the Maritime Provinces and St. Petersburg, Russia. Budge Wilson read a short story at the conference.
File contains a handwritten draft of Budge Wilson's speech, a photocopy of the same speech, and a publicity speech on "Too Young to Fight." Charles Armour was a former Dalhousie University Archivist.
File contains materials relating to Budge Wilson's Christmas poem "Victor," which was written for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and broadcast on CBC radio and over the cbc4kids.ca website, with illustrations by Kevin Sylvester.
File contains incoming correspondence from the publishing company Tundra Books and copies of Budge Wilson's replies concerning Wilson's book "A Fiddle for Luther," which became "A Fiddle for Angus."
File contains correspondence between Budge Wilson and Mark Altman of Morning Music regarding rights to reference "Song for the Mira" in "A Fiddle for Angus." The file also contains a copy of the song, for piano and voice, by Allister MacGillivray.
File contains a manuscript that won the 24th Atlantic Writing Competition award for unpublished novels. Ian Colford's competitions pseudonym (Packard Bell) appears on the title page. File also includes two reviews and a letter from Jane Buss, the executive director of the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia, announcing the winner.
File contains typed and annotated drafts of Budge Wilson's book "Manfred the Unmanageable Monster," as well as correspondence with the illustrator, Jill Quinn, and Lesley Choyce of Pottersfield Press.
