Telling the Truth: Conversations about Creative Non-Fiction
Part of the FBCW's 2022 Writers' Summit
Course Information
Recorded on May 17th 2022.
A fascinating and insightful discussion from the 2022 Writers' Summit.
Host
Megan Cole
Host Megan Cole is a tattooed food enthusiast with an obsessive reading habit. Her writing has appeared in The Puritan, Invisiblog, Kootenay Mountain Culture and more. She's currently working on her first book titled Head Over Feet: The Lasting Heart Ache of First Loves. When she's not writing, reading or cooking, she's working as the director of audience development for the BC and Yukon Book Prizes and recording interviews for the podcast Writing the Coast.
Guests
Danielle Geller and Naomi K. Lewis
Danielle Geller is a writer of personal essays and memoir. She received her MFA in creative writing for nonfiction at the University of Arizona, and a Rona Jaffe Writers' Award in 2016. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Brevity, and Arizona Highways, and has been anthologized in This Is the Place. She lives with her husband and two cats in British Columbia, where she teaches creative writing at the University of Victoria. She is a member of the Navajo Nation: born to the Tsi'naajinii, born for the white man.
Naomi K. Lewis writes, edits, and teaches creative writing in Calgary. She is the author award-winning fiction, non-fiction, and magazine journalism, and her her memoir, Tiny Lights for Travellers was short-listed for the Governor General’s Award and the W.O. Mitchell of Calgary Book Award, and won the Vine Award for non-fiction, the Pinsky-Givon Award for Non-Fiction, and the Wildrid Eggleston Award for Non-Fiction.
Course curriculum
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Telling the Truth: Conversations about Creative Non-Fiction - Webinar
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About this course
- $20.00
- 1 lesson
- 1 hour of video content