Enter the Chrysanthemum
Wednesday, May 6th, 2009
Poet Fiona Tinwei Lam reads from her new book, Enter the Chrysanthemum. David Drummond designed the gorgeous cover. Fiona’s poem is memoir, distilled. Click below to view the video.
Proved on the Pulses: On the Essay and its Literary Cousins
Archive for May, 2009
Creative Nonfiction Collective’s Readers’ Choice Awards
Friday, May 1st, 2009
Congratulations to Theresa Kishkan, winner of the inaugural CNFC Readers’ Choice Award.
The press release appears below:
Theresa Kishkan wins first annual CNFC Readers’ Choice Award
April 30, 2009
Banff, Alberta
The Creative Nonfiction Collective (CNFC) announced the winner of its Readers’ Choice Award at a ceremony at The Banff Centre on Saturday, April 25, 2009. Members of the CNFC, a national writers’ organization, voted to name Theresa Kishkan as the Best in Show winner at the inaugural Readers’ Choice Awards.
Kishkan, a poet and essayist from Pender Harbour, B.C., won for her writing from Phantom Limb (Thistledown). At the CNFC’s annual conference in Banff, Kishkan was chosen from a short list of nine nominees, whose work demonstrates the stylistic and thematic range of Canadian creative nonfiction published over the past two years.
The other nominees were:
· Trisha Cull for “Roman Dogs” (in Imagining British Columbia: Land, Memory & Place, Anvil Press)
· Trevor Herriot for Grass, Sky, Song: Promise and Peril in the World of Grassland Birds (HarperCollins)
· Annette Woudstra for The Green Heart of the Tree: Essays and Notes on a Time in Africa (University of Alberta Press)
· Susan Olding for Pathologies: A Life in Essays (Broadview)
· Thomas Hayden for Sex and War: How Biology Explains Warfare and Terrorism and Offers a Path to a Safer World (BenBella Books)
· Lily Hoy Price for I Am Full Moon: Stories of a Ninth Daughter (Brindle & Glass)
· Deborah Campbell for “Exodus. Where Will Iraq Go Next!” (in Harper’s)
· Patricia MacQuarrie for Deadly Canadian Women (Quagmire Press)
