CNFC conference is SOLD OUT. We will not be taking any further registrations. Thank you to all who will be participating this year in Vancouver.
Every April/May, members of the CNFC from across Canada gather for a lively and convivial weekend of public readings, lectures, and discussions, as well as the Annual General Meeting and (as of 2009) the Readers’ Choice Awards. Previous keynote speakers have included distinguished Canadian authors Andrew Nikiforuk, Heather Robertson, Charles Foran, Erna Paris and Sarah Leavitt. Workshop, plenary sessions and literary readings have covered such topics as copyright, self-marketing, the memoir, hybrid forms of CNF, travel writing, the nonfiction novel, and creative nonfiction in international contexts. It’s an event not to be missed.
Your Invitation to the Annual
CREATIVE NONFICTION COLLECTIVE CONFERENCE
Vancouver, at Carey Centre, UBC, May 23-24, 2012
Are you a creative nonfiction writer interested in developing your craft, expanding your understanding of the genre, and hanging out with your fellow CNF writers? Then come to the Creative Nonfiction Collective’s annual conference for 2012, which will be held at the Carey Centre, University of British Columbia, from May 23 to May 24 inclusive.
The Creative Nonfiction Collective exists to promote the genre of creative nonfiction in Canada, and to assist writers of creative nonfiction with both practical and technical information that will help them in furthering their writing careers.
Each year, the CNFC polls its members for a list of workshop and panel topics to be explored at its annual conference, and this year our members selected the topics you’ll see scheduled for Thursday’s events (below). But before the workshops, we’ll start the conference with an important business meeting, followed by our famous (notorious?) Cabaret Readings and our ever-popular Readers’ Choice Award selection.
- Andreas Schroeder, 2012 Conference Chair
2012 CONFERENCE PROGRAM >
HOW TO REGISTER >
Highlights of our 2011 Conference held April 29-May 1 at the Banff Centre
Keynote Reading
“The Graphic Memoir and Creative Nonfiction,” Sarah Leavitt, author of Tangles: A Story About Alzheimer’s, My Mother and Me
Workshops
“The Trouble with ‘Momoirs’,” Host: Christin Geall, columnist, memoirist and teacher
“Read the Fine Print: The Perils of Author Contracts,” Host: Don Sedgwick, president and part-owner of the Trans-Atlantic Literary Agency
“Going Over the Edge: Sex and Creative Nonfiction,” Hosts: Monica Meneghetti and Mette Bach
“Who Judges the Judges?: Behind the Screen of Canada’s CNF Contests,” Hosts: Andreas Schroeder and David Leach
“Tricks and Tweets: How to Build an Author Platform,” Don Sedgwick, president and part owner of the Trans-Atlantic Literary Agency