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.
*2012 Conference – to be announced
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