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CNFC Webinar Series: Member Book Launch with Betsy Warland
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Thank you to Eufemia Fantetti and Lenore Rowntree

Thank you to Eufemia Fantetti and Lenore Rowntree for their inspiring and excellent craft-focused online workshop yesterday. Chock full of tips and tools for writing about difficult topics, there were plenty of questions and interactive material to engage all participants. Well-done!
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Only six days to go until CNFC's craft-focused wor

Only six days to go until CNFC's craft-focused workshop with @EufemiaFantetti and @LRowntreeWriter: Writing About Mental Health.

Space is limited so now's the time to register! https://creativenonfictioncollective.ca/webinars/
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ICYMI: This year's CNFC nonfiction contest in part

ICYMI: This year's CNFC nonfiction contest in partnership with Humber Literary Review is now open!

Send us your previously unpublished creative nonfiction - literary journalism, memoir, the personal or lyric essay are all welcome. The competition is open to Canadian citizens and permanent residents of Canada.
Deadline Feb. 15, 2021.

More info here: https://creativenonfictioncollective.ca/cnf-contest/
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Happy Holidays to our CNFC community . . #writing

Happy Holidays to our CNFC community
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Join us on January 23, 2021 for a CNFC craft-focus

Join us on January 23, 2021 for a CNFC craft-focused workshop that will act as a model for writing about difficult topics, using mental health as an example.

Eufemia Fantetti and Lenore Rowntree will lead the session which includes generative writing prompts and private breakout discussion groups.

Registration is now open, more info here: creativenonfictioncollective.ca/webinars/
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Thanks to Betsy Warland for hosting our CNFC Membe

Thanks to Betsy Warland for hosting our CNFC Member Book Launch yesterday.

It was a wonderful gathering of nonfiction writers, with a wide variety of stories and voices. Plus there were door prizes!! All of the authors donated a signed copy of their book to a randomly-drawn event participant.

From all of us at CNFC, a heartfelt thank you to authors/readers Betsy Warland, Beth Kaplan, Joan Boxall, Kate Braid and Janet Love Morrison for sharing your words. You gave us a reason to celebrate at the end of a long year marked by challenges.

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#wednesdaywisdom . . #writingcommunity #writers

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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!
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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!

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#repost via @festofauthors
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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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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.

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