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CNFC Webinar Series: Finding the Story with Ian Brown
The Road to a Book, Part One
An interview with Marion Agnew
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Join us on December 5, 2020 for a celebration feat

Join us on December 5, 2020 for a celebration featuring CNFC members’ newly-released books.

Betsy Warland will host the event and read from her new book “Lost Lagoon.” She’ll be joined by CNFC members Joan Boxall, Kate Braid, Beth Kaplan, and Janet Love Morrison who will also read excerpts from their books.

Registration info here: creativenonfictioncollective.ca/webinars/
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Celebrating all our CNFC members this month. Keep

Celebrating all our CNFC members this month. Keep telling those true stories!
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Thank you to Ian Brown for an inspiring, humorous

Thank you to Ian Brown for an inspiring, humorous and moving presentation last night. He spoke with us about “Finding the Story” and captivated us with his storytelling.
From all of us at CNFC, a heartfelt thanks for making our first webinar such a big hit!
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This year's @humberliteraryreview and CNFC cont

This year's
@humberliteraryreview
and CNFC contest is now open! First prize receives $750 and will have their piece published in the Humber Literary Review. See our website for details on how to enter! Link in bio.

Join us on November 19, 2020 for an online worksho

Join us on November 19, 2020 for an online workshop with Ian Brown as he guides us to find the story worth telling, digging deeper to find the actual best story within that story, and hewing to it, despite being terrified of same.
Registration info here: creativenonfictioncollective.ca/webinars/
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Great mentoring opportunity! NOTE: application dea

Great mentoring opportunity! NOTE: application deadline is November 9, 2020!
#writing #writerslife #WritingCommunity
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ONE WEEK TO GO! Apply by Nov 9 for the 6month program or the Fellowship! Open to writers around the world! Info at vancouvermanuscriptintensive.com. #writing #writinglife #editing #writingmentor #manuscript #support #creativewriting

It’s that time of year 🎃 Time to celebrate g

It’s that time of year 🎃

Time to celebrate ghosts, goblins and witches — spooky stories and haunted houses.

We’d love to hear about some of your favourite books and movies 👻
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Lisa Southgate wrote about her time at a Vancouver

Lisa Southgate wrote about her time at a Vancouver CNFC conference in a recently published Medium piece. Titled “In Praise of Failure: What I would have missed had my book been published,” it’s well worth the read.
https://medium.com/@southgate.lisa/in-praise-of-failure-what-i-would-have-missed-had-my-book-been-published-ab2f78c0a6d6 
It’s also an ode to community, and reminds us of how much we miss all of you. So we’ve been busy planning how to gather safely during these difficult times. Stay tuned!

#writingcommunity #cnf #cnfwritersofinstagram #cnfwriter #cnfwriters #writersofinstagram #canadianwritersgroup #canadianwriters #creativenonfiction #writing #writerslife

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Festival alert! Toronto International Festival of Authors has gone virtual this year (October 22 to November 1, 2020). Check out the list of sessions and speakers here: festivalofauthors.ca.

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Whether you started writing at 13 like Lewis Carro

Whether you started writing at 13 like Lewis Carroll or at 65 like Frank McCourt, it is never too late to start (or finish!) writing your story.
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Taking a moment to give thanks for our wonderful c

Taking a moment to give thanks for our wonderful community of nonfiction writers!

We know it’s been a tough year, but we’d love to hear what you’re grateful for this weekend.

Wishing everyone a safe and happy Thanksgiving.🍁
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#givingthanks #happycanadianthanksgiving #weekendvibes #weekendmood #writingcommunity #writersofinstagram #writerslife

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BREAKING NEWS
The 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to the American poet Louise Glück “for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal.”

Louise Glück was born 1943 in New York and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Apart from her writing she is a professor of English at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. She made her debut in 1968 with ‘Firstborn’, and was soon acclaimed as one of the most prominent poets in American contemporary literature. She has received several prestigious awards, among them the Pulitzer Prize (1993) and the National Book Award (2014).

Louise Glück has published twelve collections of poetry and some volumes of essays on poetry. All are characterized by a striving for clarity. Childhood and family life, the close relationship with parents and siblings, is a thematic that has remained central with her. In her poems, the self listens for what is left of its dreams and delusions, and nobody can be harder than she in confronting the illusions of the self. But even if Glück would never deny the significance of the autobiographical background, she is not to be regarded as a confessional poet. Glück seeks the universal, and in this she takes inspiration from myths and classical motifs, present in most of her works. The voices of Dido, Persephone and Eurydice – the abandoned, the punished, the betrayed – are masks for a self in transformation, as personal as it is universally valid.

With collections like ‘The Triumph of Achilles’ (1985) and ‘Ararat’ (1990) Glück found a growing audience in USA and abroad. In ‘Ararat’ three characteristics unite to subsequently recur in her writing: the topic of family life; austere intelligence; and a refined sense of composition that marks the book as a whole. Glück has also pointed out that in these poems she realized how to employ ordinary diction in her poetry. The deceptively natural tone is striking. We encounter almost brutally straightforward images of painful family relations. It is candid and uncompromising, with no trace of poetic ornament.

For more information see link in bio.

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#tuesdaytip Reading and writing are inseparable. T

#tuesdaytip Reading and writing are inseparable. To be a better writer, you must read, read, read! #reading #writing #writingcommunity #writersofinstagram #writingtips #cnf #creativenonfiction #tips

We all need to take care of ourselves, especially

We all need to take care of ourselves, especially during these unusual times. For some people, walking clears the mind, restores balance, recharges batteries, and even helps them find the words they’re looking for.

How do you take care of yourself?
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Calling all #cnf writers! Apply for the @ddialogue

Calling all #cnf writers! Apply for the @ddialogues 2021 GTA and National Long Form Mentorship Program today! More information below.

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Open Call for Submissions!

Diaspora Dialogues has opened its submissions for the 2021 GTA and National Long Form Mentorship Program. The deadline to apply is October 16, 2020.

Mentorships will begin in January and run for six months.

For guidelines:

https://diasporadialogues.com/mentoring-programs/#long%20form%20national

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CNFC maintains a list of resources for cnf writers

CNFC maintains a list of resources for cnf writers. This week, check out our list of literary podcasts! Link in bio #writing #writingcommunity #writersofinstagram #podcast #nonfiction

Need some inspiration to keep your writing going t

Need some inspiration to keep your writing going this fall? Check out these @ukchalifax online writing workshops running mid-October through early December 2020.

Whether it's arts and pop culture, memoir, romance, bylines, or tapping into your own creativity, there's an online workshop for everyone!

Here’s a link for more info: https://ukings.ca/news/writing-workshops-return-to-kings-with-more-to-offer/
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How do you overcome your writer’s block? #friday

How do you overcome your writer’s block? #fridaymood #writersofinstagram #writingcommunity #writersblock #calvinandhobbes #creativenonfiction #writingcommunity

Starts online today, goes until Sunday! Let us kn

Starts online today, goes until Sunday! Let us know your favourite sessions.
#writing #festival #writingcommunity
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And it begins! The 12th annual #KingstonWritersFest is online today through Sunday. Check out our website for all the details.
#kwf2020 #readers #writers #festival #ygk

#tuesdaytips: Your first draft will probably be a

#tuesdaytips: Your first draft will probably be a #hotmess. Use it get your story down, and worry about polishing later.

#creativenonfiction #writingcommunity #writing #writinginspiration #tips #cnf #canadianwriters #cnfwriter #writersofinstagram

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