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It’s a great weekend to dig into one of these bo

It’s a great weekend to dig into one of these books! Tell us what you’re reading this weekend!
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Cozy up with one of the 14 Scotiabank Giller Prize longlisted books this weekend.⠀
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📚 Ridgerunner by Gil Adamson⠀
📚 Here the Dark by David Bergen⠀
📚 Watching You Without Me by Lynn Coady⠀
📚 All I Ask by Eva Crocker⠀
📚 Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue⠀
📚 Butter Honey Pig Bread by Francesca Ekwuyasi⠀
📚 Five Little Indians by Michelle Good⠀
📚 Dominoes At The Crossroads by Kate Kellough⠀
📚 Indians on Vacation by Thomas King⠀
📚 Consent by Annabel Lyon⠀
📚 Polar Vortex by Shani Mootoo⠀
📚 The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel⠀
📚 Clyde Fans by Seth⠀
📚 How To Pronounce Knife by Souvankham Thammavongsa

We’re thinking about conferences today and remem

We’re thinking about conferences today and remembering many special moments from years past.

Share some of your favourite photos and tell us the year, the location, and what made the event so memorable for you!

p.s. don’t forget to tag us @cnfcollective 😊

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Here’s a great back-to-school special: As a stud

Here’s a great back-to-school special: As a student, you can join CNFC with a reduced annual membership fee of $25. Includes access to nonfiction resources, reduced annual conference and workshop registration fees plus participation in a supportive nonfiction writing community.

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p.s. Lifelong learners can join for $50.

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WOTS Toronto is virtual this year! Check out the s

WOTS Toronto is virtual this year! Check out the schedule and register for a few sessions😊

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Our #CityImagines series resumes Friday September 11 with NARRATIVES OF RESISTANCE featuring Erica Ifill interviewing authors, Catherine Hernandez and Pamela Palmater whose new books resist oppression, challenge systemic racism, and call us to take action for social change!

In Crosshairs, Catherine Hernandez depicts a frighteningly familiar near-future and a resistance movement led by a queer Black performer and allies.

Pamela Palmater’s Warrior Life brings Indigenous resistance to the page offering an unflinching critique of the colonial project in Canada.

Visit cityimagines.ca to register!

CATHERINE HERNANDEZ is a proud queer brown femme author. She is of Filipino, Spanish, Chinese, and Indian heritage, and she is married into the Navajo Nation. Hernandez is the author of the acclaimed and award-winning novel Scarborough. Crosshairs is her second novel.

DR. PAMELA PALMATER is a Mi’kmaw lawyer, author and social justice activist from Eel River Bar First Nation. She has four university degrees, including a doctorate in law. Pam has worked with First Nations for 25+ years advancing native education, sovereignty and nationbuilding. She currently holds the position of Professor and Chair in Indigenous Governance at Ryerson University.

ERICA IFILL is an economist, columnist and activist who founded Not In My Colour, the first intersectional business design agency. With this new venture, she is determined to address the systems and policies that prevent representation at all levels in the workplace. Erica co-founded the Bad + Bitchy podcast, which focuses on politics, technology and society, from an equity perspective. She is also columnist for The Hill Times, where she writes about federal politics within an intersectional feminist context, and whose additional bylines include: Macleans, Policy Options and the Globe and Mail.

#WOTS2020 #CityImagines #CanLit #IReadCanadian #TorontoLife #TorontoEvents #StayHome #torontoWOTS #CanadianAuthor #WordsAcrossCanada #NarrativesOfResistance #Crosshairs #dystopian #lgbtq #warriorlife

Check out the CNFC blog for an interview with Mari

Check out the CNFC blog for an interview with Marion Agnew on her new book, REVERBERATIONS. Link in bio.
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Nabila Huq (member at large) is new in the arena o

Nabila Huq (member at large) is new in the arena of creative writing. She made her debut in creative non-fiction with The Shoe Project. She writes fiction as well. As a new writer, Nabila is in search of publishers for her works. A graduate in English Literature and Cultural Studies, she wants to pursue a PhD in Creative Writing in near future and a full time career in writing is her long term goal.

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Professor Darryl Whetter (member at large) was th

Professor Darryl Whetter (member at large) was the inaugural director of the Creative Writing MA at LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore (in partnership with Goldsmiths, University of London). He is the author of two poetry collections and four books of fiction, most recently the 2020 climate-crisis novel Our Sands (Penguin Random House). His essays have been published by Routledge, the National Poetry Foundation (US), Oxford University Press, Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, The Brooklyn Rail, etc. He has been a festival author in Australia, the US, Canada, Singapore, Malaysia and Bali.

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Akberet Beyene (member at large) was born in Asmar

Akberet Beyene (member at large) was born in Asmara, Eritrea.As a journalist for the national Eritrean television station she researched and disseminated stories for both print and television that largely centered on sociopolitical events and human rights, as well as gender and youth issues. She holds a diploma in Mass Communications from the University of Asmara, and has participated in short term Journalism courses in Germany and the US. For more than a decade she volunteered during the Eritrean struggle for independence from Ethiopia, and has in-depth experience on how gender and power relations played out in post-independent Eritrea. As a result of the suppression of media and the accompanying arrest of journalists in Eritrea, she fled to Canada in 2011 where she has been living ever since.

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Beth Kaplan (member at large), who holds an MFA i

Beth Kaplan (member at large), who holds an MFA in Creative Writing from UBC, is the author of three nonfiction books: a biography, a memoir, and a guide to writing memoir, which is the textbook for her courses. She has taught memoir and personal essay writing at Ryerson University for 25 years and also for 12 years at the University of Toronto, where in 2012 she was given an Excellence in Teaching award. She also works privately as an editor and writing coach. A former actress and a fellow of the Banff Centre’s Literary Journalism program, Beth produces So True, a curated reading series for her long-term students and herself, three times a year at the Black Swan in Toronto. Her new memoir, “Loose Woman,” will launch September 9, 2020.

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S. Lesley Buxton (membership coordinator) is the

S. Lesley Buxton (membership coordinator) is the author of the award-winning One Strong Girl: Surviving the unimaginable, a mother’s memoir. Her essays have appeared in Hazlitt, Today’s Parent, Still Standing, This Magazine, and in the Caitlin Press anthology Love Me True. An excerpt of One Strong Girl appeared in the March 2019 issue of Reader’s Digest. She has an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the University of King’s College in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

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Ruby Remenda Swanson (treasurer) is the author of A Family Outing, a memoir about the experiences she’s had as a result of having a gay son. In June 2019 Ruby travelled to Ukraine to launch the Ukrainian translation of her book. Ruby recently retired from her position of General Manager of the University of Alberta Botanic Garden. She was recognized by the University of Alberta Office of Safe Disclosure and Human Rights for her work to promote the rights of the LGBTQ community across campus. Ruby was a long time director of PFLAG Edmonton.

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Christopher Moore (vice-president) is a long time

Christopher Moore (vice-president) is a long time member of CNFC, now on the second year of a term on the board. He is a past chair and honorary life member of the Writers’ Union of Canada and a two-time winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award, once for nonfiction, once for children’s literature. His books are almost exclusively in the field of Canadian history, but he subscribes to Betsy Warland’s dictum “creative nonfiction refers to all nonfiction and mixed-genre writing shaped by literary sensibilities, devices, and strategies.”

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Here is your new 2020 board, CNFC! Margaret Lynch

Here is your new 2020 board, CNFC!

Margaret Lynch (president) is a nonfiction writer whose work has appeared in The Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, National Post and on CBC Radio. Her book-in-progress is a memoir about her journey to become a better person after surviving an experimental bone marrow transplant. Her proposal for TRANSFORMED: When My DNA Changed, So Did I won the 2020 Penguin Random House Best Nonfiction Book Proposal Prize. She holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the University of King’s College in Halifax, NS.

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Check out the CNFC blog for information about Grow

Check out the CNFC blog for information about Grownupedness by Clarissa Green, with forward written by CNFC co-founder Betsy Warland. Link in bio. #writersofinstagram #writingcommunity #writing #writingtrue #cnfc #creativenonfiction #creativenonfictionwriters #publishing #writerssupportingwriters

The Creative Nonfiction Collective Society/Humber

The Creative Nonfiction Collective Society/Humber Literary Review 2020 annual contest winner has been chosen! Thank you to all who entered and shared their stories with us. Check out our website to see journalist and author Ian Brown announce this year's winner! Link in bio. #writingcommunity #writing #writingtrue #creativenonfiction #creativenonfictionwriters #contest #goodnews #winner #nonfiction #congratulations #writers #writersofinstagram

See our blog for 20 CNF titles released by Canadia

See our blog for 20 CNF titles released by Canadian BIPOC authors this year. Link in bio. #antiracism #blackexcellence✊🏾 #creativenonfiction #writingcommunity #bipoc #canada #bipocartists

Check out our newest blog post to learn a little m

Check out our newest blog post to learn a little more about the 2020 CNFC/ @humberliteraryreview contest finalists! Link in bio. #writersofinstagram #writingcommunity #creativenonfiction #contest #writers

Congratulations, and thank you to all who shared t

Congratulations, and thank you to all who shared their stories with us this year!
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The Creative Nonfiction Collective Society and The

The Creative Nonfiction Collective Society and The Humber Literary Review are pleased to announce the long list for this year’s creative nonfiction contest. We thank every entrant for sharing their words and work with us. We received many excellent submissions this year and our readers had some difficult decisions to make. We will be revealing the short list in May!
#truestories #writingcontest #creativenonfiction #writing

Given the declaration of a global pandemic, and co

Given the declaration of a global pandemic, and considering urgent advice from medical experts and our host venue, the University of Toronto, to help slow the community spread of COVID-19, The Creative Non-Fiction Collective has made the difficult decision to cancel our Writing True Conference in Toronto. We plan to reschedule, at the same venue, Emmanuel College, U of T, for May 7-9, 2021, circumstances permitting.
We truly regret having to cancel our conference for this year. For those who have already registered, you will be issued a refund via Wild Apricot. This will be done as soon as possible, but please be patient as it may take several business days for the refund to appear in your bank account.

Thank-you so much for your commitment to CNFC and for your understanding.
Please look after yourself. Stay well.

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