Writer In Residence
2012
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KAREN CONNELLY WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE!
Award-winning writer Karen Connelly is the fifth annual writer-in-residence at the UBC Okanagan campus. Sponsored by the Department of Creative Studies and the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies, this program allows 16 selected local writers to get free critiques on their work.
Karen Connelly is the author of nine books of best-selling nonfiction, fiction, and poetry, the most recent being Burmese Lessons: a love story, a memoir about her experiences in Burma and on the Thai-Burma border. She has won the Pat Lowther Award for her poetry, the Governor General’s Award for her non-fiction, and Britain’s Orange Broadband Prize for New Fiction for her first novel The Lizard Cage. Published in 2005, The Lizard Cage was compared in the New York Times Book Review to the works of Orwell, Solzhenitsyn, and Mandela, and hailed in the Globe and Mail as “one of the best modern Canadian novels.”
Connelly’s other books include Grace and Poison, One Room in a Castle, This Brighter Prison, The Disorder of Love, and The Small Words in My Body. Married with a young child, she divides her time between a home in rural Greece and a home in Toronto.
Connelly will spend two weeks on UBC’s Okanagan campus from January 23rd to Feb 3rd, 2012. Besides meeting with local writers, she will meet with various UBC creative writing classes.
Writers in the Central Okanagan are invited to have their work critiqued and to participate in a one-on-one meeting with Connelly. Appointments are limited to 16, with 6 of the 16 spaces reserved for UBC Okanagan students.
If you would like to be considered for an appointment, send a maximum of 15 double-spaced pages of your fiction (plus a one-page synopsis if it is an excerpt from a longer work). Your work should be sent in an email between December 15th and January 3rd, 2012 to irma.ronkkonen@ubc.ca. In the email give your name, student number (if applicable), phone number, and email address. Please put “Writer in Residence” in the subject line.
For more information about the public reading or the writer-in-residence program, contact Michael V. Smith, Dept. of Creative Studies at UBC Okanagan, 250-807-9706 or michael.v.smith@ubc.ca.
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ANNABEL LYON Novelist Annabel Lyon is the Okanagan campus of UBC’s fourth annual writer-in-residence. Sponsored by the Department of Creative Studies and the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies, this program allows 16 selected local writers to get free critiques on their work. Annabel Lyon is the author of Oxygen (stories, 2007), The Best Thing for You (novella, 2004), All-Season Edie (juvenile novel, 2007) and The Golden Mean (novel 2009) which was nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Governor General’s award in 2009 and won the 2009 Rogers Writers Trust Award. Lyon will spend two weeks on the UBC O campus from March 6 to 20, 2011. Besides meeting with local writers, she will be giving a free public reading and will meet with various classes. Writers in the Central Okanagan are invited to have their work critiqued and to participate in a one-on-one meeting with Lyon. Appointments are limited to 16, with 6 of the 16 spaces reserved for UBC Okanagan students. |
If you would like to be considered for an appointment, send a maximum of 15 double-spaced pages of your fiction (plus a one-page synopsis if it is an excerpt from a longer work). Your work should be sent in an email between January 12 and January 31st to irma.ronkkonen@ubc.ca. In the email give your name, student number (if applicable), phone number, and email address. Please put “Writer in Residence” in the subject line.
For more information about the public reading or the writer-in-residence program, contact Nancy Holmes, Dept. of Creative Studies at UBC Okanagan, 250-807-9369 or nancy.holmes@ubc.ca
 Writing Workshop with Laisha Rosnau: http://www.ubc.ca/okanagan/continuingstudies/news/events.html |
UBC Okanagan’s LAISHA ROSNAU Novelist and poet Laisha Rosnau is UBC O’s third annual writer-in-residence. Sponsored by the Department of Creative Studies, this program allows 16 selected local writers to get free critiques on their work. Public reading will be Thursday, March 4, 7 PM at the Downtown Kelowna Branch of the Okanagan Regional Library, 1380 Ellis Street. Click here for Laisha Writing Place poster.
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“Laisha Rosnau, who grew up in Vernon, is back in the valley as our writer in residence and we’re delighted!” says Nancy Holmes, Head of the Department of Creative Studies. “I hope new and developing local writers take advantage of this rare opportunity to benefit from the advice someone who’s been there!"
Laisha Rosnau is an award-winning poet and novelist. Her second collection of poetry, Lousy Explorers, was released by Nightwood in April 2009, and her first, Notes on Leaving (Nightwood), won the Acorn-Plantos Poetry Award in 2005. Her novel, The Sudden Weight of Snow (McClelland &Stewart), was an honourable mention for the Amazon/Books in Canada FirstNovel Award. Laisha has an MFA from UBC where she was the Executive Editor of Prism International. Born in Montreal, Laisha moved to Vernon as a girl and is an alumnus of UBCO (then OUC). Her first writing classes took place alongside the construction of the then-brand-new Kelowna campus. Laisha has recently moved back to Vernon with her family.
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Rosnau will spend two weeks on the UBC O campus from March 1 to 15, 2010. Besides meeting with local writers, she will be giving a free public reading. Writers in the Central Okanagan are invited to have their work critiqued and to participate in a one-on-one meeting with Rosnau. Appointments are limited to 16, with 6 of the 16 spaces reserved for UBC Okanagan students. If you would like to be considered for an appointment, send a maximum of 15 double-spaced pages of your fiction or poetry (plus a one-page synopsis if it is an excerpt from a longer work). Your work should be sent in an email between January 12 and January 31st to irma.ronkkonen@ubc.ca . In the email give your name, student number (if applicable), phone number, and email address. Please put “Writer in Residence” in the subject line.
For more information about the public reading or the writer-in-residence program, contact Nancy Holmes, Dept. of Creative Studies at UBC Okanagan, 250-807-9369 or nancy.holmes@ubc.ca.
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UBC Okanagan’s Writer-in-Residence FRED STENSON March 1 – 15, 2009
Novelist and non-fiction writer Fred Stenson is UBC O’s second annual
Fred Stenson is the author of fifteen books, eight of fiction and seven of |
Writers in the Central Okanagan are invited to have their work critiqued and to participate in a one-on-one
meeting with Stenson. Appointments are limited to 16, with 6 of the 16 spaces reserved for UBC Okanagan
students.
If you would like to be considered for an appointment, send a maximum of 15 double-spaced pages of your
fiction or non-fiction (plus a one-page synopsis if it is an excerpt from a longer work). Your work should be sent
in an email between January 12 and January 31st to barbra.macdonald@ubc.ca. In the email give your name,
student number (if applicable), phone number, and email address. Please put “Writer in Residence” in the subject line.
Besides meeting with local writers, Stenson will be giving a free public reading and conducting a workshop called
The Art and Craft of Historical Fiction. The workshop will take place on Saturday, March 14 1 – 4 PM. The cost is
$75 + GST. To register in the workshop, contact Elaine Crebo, Community and Continuing Studies at UBC
Okanagan 250- 807-9981 or elaine.crebo@ubc.ca.
For more information about the public reading or the writer-in-residence program, contact Nancy Holmes, Dept.
of Creative Studies at UBC Okanagan, 250-807-9369 or nancy.holmes@ubc.ca.
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Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies presents
Novelist and short story writer Lynn Coady is UBC O’s
The reading will take place at the downtown Kelowna For more information, contact Nancy Holmes at 807-9369. |
Lynn Coady is author of the novels Strange Heaven (1998), Saints of Big Harbour, and, most recently, Mean Boy (2006). She has also published a short story collection, Play the Monster Blind (2000), and edited a collection of short fiction from Atlantic Canada called Victory Meat (2003). Her first novel was nominated for a Governor-General's Award for fiction. Most recently, Coady acted as editor of The Anansi 40th Anniversary Reader, published in 2007 by House of Anansi press. Lynn Coady has written non-fiction
for publications such as Saturday Night, Chatelaine, Elle Canada, Canadian Geographic, Vancouver Magazine, The Globe and Mail, and Adbusters Magazine--where she worked as a senior writer and editor. Coady was born and raised in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. She now lives in Toronto.
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