Two Out Five with Humber Connection on Danuta Gleed List for 2012more
What do two out of five writers of this year’s Danuta Gleed Award for short fiction have in common? A Humber connection!
Johanna Skibsrud will be teaching for us this summer, and Jessica Westhead is an alumna!
The nominees for the 2012 Danuta Gleed Literary Award, which recognizes the best debut English-language collection of short stories [...]
Creative Writing in the Twenty-First Centurymore
Conference May 10 – 13
Humber College
Program Details Coming Soon
Town and Country – The Venues
Humber College’s Lakeshore Campus on the west side of the city is the bucolic site of most of the conference. The place is an old psychiatric hospital with red brick cottages as well as modern buildings. The place was once called the [...]
A Room of One's Own - In France more
Back in 2005 I drove down from Paris to visit Isabel Huggan at Le Mas Blanc, her stone farmhouse near Ales, a small town north-west of Nimes. Getting there was like something out of another era. Her directions were very clear, but they involved driving along one monastery wall, left at a cemetery, over toward [...]
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Erika de Vasconcelos: The Role of Creativity in Literature - Part One of Twomore
“The reason I want to talk about creativity is that I know this week, you guys are guys are going to get a lot of information about books and how to write and how to edit and all those technical things and sometimes your brains are going to feel like they’re exploding. I wanted to [...]
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Miriam Toews: Writing Tipsmore
“…as a writer, I feel that I have to be incredibly brave and I’m not a brave person but I have to [be]–I really have to put it out there. I have to put my–I’m not sure if I would say that I would have to put my life on the line but if every [...]
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Robert Rotenberg: From First Book to Secondmore
“So I want to talk about what it’s like when you suddenly are a published writer. You know, you spend your whole life wanting to walk into a bookstore and see your book on the shelf but I remember someone saying, here, ‘Walk into a bookstore, look at the books, think which one are they [...]
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