Posts Tagged ‘Creative nonfiction’
Nova Scotia native overcomes a damaging revelation
Veteran author Harry Thurston capped a climactic literary evening at the Grad House in Halifax by reading from a memoir about losing a big, two-hearted river. The Nova Scotia native, who is slated, as vice-chair, to become chair of the Writers’ Union of Canada, gave a bravura performance, and so managed to overcome the damaging…
Read MoreNova Scotia Literary Mafia Emerging from Shadows
First we had Stephen Kimber reading from What Lies Across the Water: The Real Story of the Cuban Five. Book due: this autumn. Tonight we had Dean Jobb (above) with Prince of Fraud, a book about a Gatsby-esque Ponzi artist who hid away in a dazzling mansion in the backwoods of Nova Scotia after defrauding…
Read MoreQueen of the Low-Res MFA turns to mothers, daughters
In the heat of the battle that IS Creative Nonfiction . . .
In the heat of the battle that IS Creative Nonfiction, Our Hero trades war stories with fellow writers Marq de Villiers, David Hayes, and (below) Havard Gould. You can see the fight in their faces. Every one of these warriors is ready to lead the charge over the next ridge.
Read MoreIan Brown brings his Boy in the Moon to Halifax
Friday brings wunderkind Ian Brown to the MFA program in Creative Nonfiction. He’ll give a public reading here at the University of King’s College from his bestseller The Boy in the Moon. That event will be live-streamed at 7 p.m. Brown will also engage with students in the program. Meanwhile, mentoring writers Lorri Neilsen-Glenn, David…
Read MoreNewest MFA launches at oldest university in Canada
Canada’s newest MFA program kicked off with a reception Sunday evening at King’s College University in Halifax. The program is the first in the country to focus exclusively on Creative Nonfiction. King’s College itself dates back to 1789, a year of revolution if ever there was one. Founders Don Sedgwick and Stephen Kimber, best known…
Read MoreEastern Canada joins the Creative Nonfiction Revolution
It’s a revolutionary milestone. Two weeks from now, on August 4, 2013, the University of King’s College in Halifax will launch Canada’s first master’s degree program in Creative Nonfiction (CNF). This two-year, limited residency program is designed to help emerging writers turn nonfiction manuscripts into published books. Our Hero is thrilled to be one of…
Read MoreHurrah! All-Time Greatest Facebook Hits . . .
Over on Facebook, Our Hero’s All-Time Greatest Hits, as “liked” by FB friends, include the following . . . Hurrah! My ship is finally coming in. I’ve just received a letter from France. A lawyer indicates that a safe deposit box containing $4.2 million will be opened, and half that total will come to me,…
Read MoreWould you take a writing workshop with this man?
In case you missed yesterday’s Globe and Mail, where this slightly doctored photo turned up in the Books Section, Our Hero will soon teach Narrative Non-Fiction at the University of Toronto Summer Writing School. It’s an intensive, one-week, multi-genre program that runs this year July 15 to 19. Other instructors include Dennis Bock, Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer,…
Read MoreNew MFA program in Creative Nonfiction
Our Hero turns up on a roster of nine writer-mentors for a new Master of Fine Arts program in Creative Nonfiction. The program, which launches this August at the University of King’s College in Nova Scotia, is the brainchild of the well-known Halifax author Stephen Kimber. The nine writer-mentors from across the country have together…
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