Hideout residency

PEI writer, performer, and interdisciplinary artist Tanya Davis has been named the 2026 writer-in-residence at The Hideout. The Hideout writer-in-residence program invites a prominent Canadian writer to The Hideout each year to engage in new creative work. The 2025 Hideout writer-in-residence was Ontario novelist Christine Higdon.

Davis has been a force in the Canadian and East Coast art scenes as both an innovative poet and admired spoken word performer, musician, and playwright. Most recently, Davis served as the Poet Laureate of PEI and has previously served as Poet Laureate for the City of Halifax. She currently lives in rural Epekwitk, where she continues to create for the stage, the page, the stereo and the screen.

Davis will spend a week at The Hideout later this spring, continuing her work on a range of new creative projects.

Created by writer Trevor Corkum and psychotherapist Joshua Lewis, The Hideout, located a few minutes outside the village of Victoria-by-the-Sea offers retreat and space to writers, creative folks, and visitors.