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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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#canlit #toronto #bookstagram #toarts #torontoartsfestival #digitalfestival #virtuallearning #vietualevent

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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#tuesdaytips #creativenonfiction #writersofinstagram #writingcommunity #literaryquotes #writing #author #cnf

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.

#nobelprize2020

#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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#writersofinstagram #writingcommunity #writers #authorsofinstagram #author #selfcare #recharge #rechargeyourself #weekendvibes #weekendmood #weekendrefresh

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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#canadianwriter #authorlife #canadianauthors #publishing #womenwriters #womenwhowrite #authorsofinstagram #writingmentorship #canlit #wordonthestreet #callforsubmissions

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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#art #popculture #memoir #byline #creativity #romancebooks
#backtoschool #writingcommunity #cnf #cnfwritersofinstagram #cnfwriter #cnfwriters ##writersofinstagram #canadianwritersgroup #canadianauthors #canadianwriters #creativenonfiction #writing #writerslife

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

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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#throwbackthursday
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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.

Link in bio.

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.
#writersofinstagram #writingcommunity #creativenonfiction #cnf #interview #writing #nonfiction

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.

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

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.

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

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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