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2021 Contest Longlist Announced!

April 29, 2021

Book Review: Betsy Warland, Lost Lagoon/ lost in thought

March 31, 2021

CNFC Webinar Series: Body & Soul: Writing About Spirituality with Susan Scott

March 4, 2021

Meet Board Member, Akberet Beyene

February 28, 2021

CNFC Webinar Series: Writing About Mental Health with Eufemia Fantetti and Lenore Rowntree

February 10, 2021

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#WeekendWisdom from Teresa Nielsen Hayden. . . . #

#WeekendWisdom from Teresa Nielsen Hayden.
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We are enormously grateful for the support of Univ

We are enormously grateful for the support of University of Toronto’s School of Continuing Studies and the University of King's College MFA Program. Both organizations have donated free writing courses to be raffled off as door prizes during our conference next weekend.

Registered conference participants will be eligible to win the UKing’s non-credit writing workshop valued at $500. Attendees of the CNFC Annual General Meeting will be eligible to win the UofT Continuing Studies writing course up to a maximum of $700.

Two more great reasons to register for CNFC’s 2021 conference and the AGM today! More info about speakers, sessions, and registration here: https://creativenonfictioncollective.ca/annual-conference/conference/
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Speaker Spotlight: CNFC 2021 Conference IAN BROW

Speaker Spotlight: CNFC 2021 Conference

IAN BROWN is an acclaimed feature writer for the Globe and Mail. He is equally well-known for his work on TVO and CBC Radio, where he was moderator of Talking Books for more than a decade, and hosted Sunday Morning and Later the Same Day. He is the author of four books, including Sixty, which was shortlisted for the Charles Taylor Prize, and The Boy in the Moon, which won it and the B.C. National Book Award, and was chosen by the New York Times Book Review as one of the ten best books of 2011. He lives in Toronto with his wife, Johanna Schneller.

JOHANNA SCHNELLER is a leading freelance journalist specializing in entertainment features. She’s profiled the most prominent actors of our time, with cover stories appearing in Premiere, Vanity Fair, and Ladies Home Journal, among others. She hosts CBC’s The Filmmakers, interviewing directors and film experts about classic Canadian films, and previously hosted TVO’s Saturday Night at the Movies. She conducts on-stage interviews for the Toronto International Film Festival and the Toronto Library and co-wrote Uncontrollable, about Toronto’s notorious mayor, Rob Ford, and Woman Enough: How a Boy Became a Woman and Changed the World of Sport. She lives in Toronto with her husband, Ian Brown, and their two children.

Join us for their session to learn more about telling other peoples’ stories, an issue that most writers encounter.

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Speaker Spotlight: CNFC 2021 Conference MARION AG

Speaker Spotlight: CNFC 2021 Conference

MARION AGNEW’s collection of personal essays, Reverberations: A Daughter’s Meditations on Alzheimer’s, was shortlisted for the Louise de Kiriline Lawrence Award for nonfiction. Her fiction and essays have appeared in literary journals in the U.S. and Canada and have been supported by grants from the Ontario Arts Council. A science writer and editor, she moved from the US to Canada in 2004 and is now a dual citizen. She lives in Shuniah, Ontario, on Anishinabewaki and Michif Piyii traditional territory, and looks at Lake Superior every day.

SUSAN OLDING is the author of Big Reader: Essays, and Pathologies: A Life in Essays, selected by 49th Shelf and Amazon.ca as one of 100 Canadian books to read in a lifetime. Her award-winning essays, fiction, and poetry have appeared widely in literary journals and magazines throughout Canada and the U.S. As a teacher and mentor, she has worked with writers at all stages of development. Currently, she’s affiliated with the Vancouver Manuscript Intensive. She lives in the traditional territory of the Lekwungen and W̱SÁNEĆ nations, in Victoria, British Columbia.

Join us for their session to learn more about mentoring. <<Registration link in bio>>
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Speaker Spotlight: CNFC 2021 Conference KEN MCGOO

Speaker Spotlight: CNFC 2021 Conference

KEN MCGOOGAN is the award-winning author of fifteen books, among them Fatal Passage, Lady Franklin’s Revenge, Dead Reckoning, and Flight of the Highlanders. Before turning mainly to books, Ken worked as a journalist for two decades (Toronto Star, Montreal Star, Calgary Herald). He has served as chair of the Public Lending Right Commission and is a fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society and Wolfson College, Cambridge. Ken teaches Creative Nonfiction at University of Toronto (where he won an award for teaching excellence) and in the MFA program at University of King’s College in Halifax.

Join us for Ken’s craft-focused workshop which explores such novelistic adventures as parallel narratives, framing, and intertwining.

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Treat yourself. . . #writing #writinglife #wri

Treat yourself.
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Speaker Spotlight: CNFC 2021 Conference CARRIE SN

Speaker Spotlight: CNFC 2021 Conference

CARRIE SNYDER is the author of Girl Runner, a finalist for the Rogers Writers Trust Prize for Fiction, which was published internationally and translated into multiple languages. Carrie’s non-fiction has been nominated for a National Magazine Award and she has published two books for children. She blogs and cartoons about art, spirituality and the writing life at carriesnyder.com.

Looking forward to Carrie’s workshop about accessing creativity through our senses. Join us!
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The Creative Nonfiction Collective Society and Th

The Creative Nonfiction Collective Society and The Humber Literary Review are pleased to announce the long list for this year’s creative nonfiction contest. Congratulations to the finalists!
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Speaker Spotlight: CNFC 2021 Conference ELIZABETH

Speaker Spotlight: CNFC 2021 Conference

ELIZABETH MACLEOD is an award-winning author of more than 70 nonfiction books for children. Dinosaurs, royal murder, horses that changed history, forensic science — Liz has written about them all. She’s also worked in-house as an editor at OWL Magazine and Kids Can Press books and has been a freelance editor for many other children’s publishers. Thanks to her special interest in biographies, Liz has written a lot of them, for various age groups and with an emphasis on great Canadians. Her most recent books include Canadian Women Now + Then, Meet Thérèse Casgrain and How to Become an Accidental Activist.

GILLIAN O’REILLY has been interested in words ever since she ate the dust jacket off the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary when she was 11 months old. She edited Canadian Children’s Book News for 20 years, covering many amazing books created by Canadian writers and she is the recipient of the 2016 Claude Aubry Award for distinguished contribution to Canadian children’s literature. Gillian has written two books for young readers: Slangalicious: Where We Got That Crazy Lingo and The Great Number Rumble: A Story of Math in Surprising Places, co-written with Cora Lee.

Join us for their session to learn more about writing nonfiction for kids and teens.
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#weekendwisdom from Bobby Solomon: “Put yoursel

#weekendwisdom from Bobby Solomon: “Put yourself out there”

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Speaker Spotlight: CNFC 2021 Conference SONJA BOO

Speaker Spotlight: CNFC 2021 Conference

SONJA BOON is an award-winning researcher, writer, teacher, and flutist. Professor of Gender Studies at Memorial University and co-editor of the Life Writing Series at Wilfrid Laurier University Press, her creative non-fiction essays appear in published anthologies as well as in Geist, The Ethnic Aisle, and ROOM, among others.
For six years, she was principal flutist with the Portland Baroque Orchestra. What the Oceans Remember: Searching for Belonging and Home (2019), a memoir that traverses five continents and spans more than two centuries, is her fourth book.

We can’t wait for Sonja’s session about the interplay between formal research and the “I” we write. Join us!

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Only one week left until CNFC's craft-focused Equi

Only one week left until CNFC's craft-focused Equity, Inclusion and Diversity workshop with Cicely Belle Blain. If you’re thinking about joining us, now’s the time to register! More info here: https://creativenonfictioncollective.ca/webinars/
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Join us for our annual conference on May 13-16, 20

Join us for our annual conference on May 13-16, 2021. All sessions will be virtual, hosted via Zoom. Conference pass provides you with access to all sessions.

We’ve got more information about sessions here: https://creativenonfictioncollective.ca/annual-conference/conference/2021-conference-sessions/ and presenter bios are here: https://creativenonfictioncollective.ca/annual-conference/conference/2021-presenter-bios/

Early bird registration is available until April 13th.
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#weekendwisdom from Monica Wood: “Ten Commandmen

#weekendwisdom from Monica Wood: “Ten Commandments for a Happy Writing Life”

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Join us on April 17, 2021 for a CNFC workshop that

Join us on April 17, 2021 for a CNFC workshop that examines our unconscious bias related to equity, inclusion, and diversity.

Cicely Belle Blain will lead this session and discuss why it matters in your writing.

Registration is now open, more info here: creativenonfictioncollective.ca/webinars/
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#mondaymusings: “Read your work aloud.” This

#mondaymusings: “Read your work aloud.”

This nugget brought to you by Monica Wood, author of “The Pocket Muse.”
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Thank you Denise Ryan for yesterday’s lively and

Thank you Denise Ryan for yesterday’s lively and informative interviewing workshop. You were a generous presenter, and we all came away with some new tips and techniques. Great questions from session participants too!
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#weeekendwisdom: “Keep writing.”
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Only one week left until CNFC's craft-focused Inte

Only one week left until CNFC's craft-focused Interview workshop with @deniseoryan

If you’re thinking about joining us, now’s the time to register! https://creativenonfictioncollective.ca/webinars/ (Link also in bio)
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#weeekendwisdom: “One more sentence.” . . #wri

#weeekendwisdom: “One more sentence.”
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