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2007 ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Preliminary Schedule for CNFC Fourth
Annual Conference,
The Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta
To register and for further information
go to this Banff Centre page press here
Friday, April 20, 2007
4:00-10:00 pm Check-in
4:00- 6:00 p.m. Hospitality
Suite Open
6:00- 7:15 p.m. Dinner
7:30-9:30 p.m.
Official Welcome and Members’ Readings
(open to members and guests)
9:30-10:30
Social Gathering (open to members and guests)
Saturday, April 21 , 2007
800 – 9:15 a.m. Breakfast
9:30-11:00
Keynote & discussion: Stephen Osborne
Stephen Osborne is co-founder and editor-in-chief
of Geist magazine (1990), and founder of Arsenal Pulp Press Book Publishers
(1971). His story “Girl Afraid of Haystacks” received the CBC Literary
Award for travel writing in 2004. He has received the National Magazine
Award for Outstanding Achievement, the Vancouver Arts Award for Writing
and Publishing, and the Western Magazine Lifetime Achievement Award.
He was an early recipient of the Creative Non-Fiction Prize from Event
magazine, and his columns in Geist have received several awards and many
nominations.
In 1996 he was granted a Maclean Hunter
Arts Journalism Residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts. He taught creative
non-fiction at the University of Victoria for six years, was a mentor in
the Writers Studio at SFU for four years, and he leads an annual workshop
on the Art of the Short Narrative for the Writing and Publishing Program
at SFU. For the last two years he has led the Magazine Project for the
MPub program at the Centre for Studies in Canadian Publishing at SFU. His
writing has been published in Canadian Geographic, Saturday Night, UTNE
Reader, Vancouver Sun and the Tyee. His collection of personal essays,
Ice & Fire: Dispatches from the New World, 1988-1998, was published
in 1999. Since 2001 he has been writing a novel, the working title of which
is For You Who Grow Pale At the Mention of Vancouver.
Osborne's website is
www.phototaxis.ca. The Geist website is www.geist.com.
A somewhat partisan (ie: flattering) account of his teaching practise can
be found at www.upinontario.com/mt/archives/000104.html
11:00-11:15
Coffee
11:15-12:30
Workshop 1: Harold Rhenisch Creative
Nonfiction: Paradigms, and Possibilities On the various roots and
boundaries of creative nonfiction
Harold Rhenisch is the author of twenty
books, including four books of creative nonfiction, Out of the Interior
(1993), an ‘Out of Africa’ about a childhood on the fruit plantations of
British Columbia, Tom Thomson’s Shack (2000) a meditation on people and
place, re-envisaging Canada through oral story ( nominated for two B.C.
Book Prizes and a Cross Country Checkup notable book of the year), and
most recently the humorous bird watching memoir Winging Home, and
The Wolves at Evelyn, (both 2006) a reassessment of British Columbia’s
place in twentieth century history. He is the winner of the Critic’s Desk
Award, the B.C. & Yukon Newspaper Association’s Arts & Culture
Writing award, and the Malahat Review Long Poem Prize. He is the Writer
in Electronic Residence for the Niagara Branch of the Canadian Authors
Association, and will returning for his third summer teaching at the Victoria
School of Writing, where this year he will be teaching memoir. He lives
in 150 Mile House, B.C.
Workshop 2: Lynne Bowen & Andreas
Schroeder On Teaching Creative Nonfiction
Lynne Bowen is the author of five books:
Boss Whistle, The Coal Miners of Vancouver Island Remember; Three Dollar
Dreams; Muddling Through, The Remarkable Story of the Barr Colonists; Those
Lake People, Stories of Cowichan Lake; and Robert Dunsmuir, Laird of the
Mines. Among the awards her books have won are the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction
Prize and the Lieutenant-Governor’s Prize for Writing British Columbia
History. Her other writing includes magazine articles and the column “Those
Island People” for the Times Colonist in Victoria. She was the Rogers Communications
Co-Chair of Creative Non-fiction Writing at the University of British Columbia
for fourteen years. At present she is writing a book entitled “Italian
Connections” which is about Italian immigration to British Columbia.
Andreas Schroeder, University of British
Columbia Rogers Communications Chair of Creative Nonfiction Writing, is
the author of 17 books, including works of fiction, non-fiction, translation
and poetry. His memoir Shaking it Rough was shortlisted for the Governor
General's Award in 1976; his documentary novel Dustship Glory was shortlisted
for the Sealbooks First Novel Award in 1986. In 1990 he won the Canadian
Association of Journalists’ Award for Best Investigative Journalism. His
writings have been anthologized in 38 anthologies, 68 literary magazines,
and almost all of Canada’s general-interest national magazines. Some of
his other works include The Late Man (short stories), Toccata in 'D'’ (docu-novella),
File of Uncertainties (poetry), The Eleventh Commandment (translations)
and The Mennonites: A History of their Lives in Canada (history).
From 1989 until its
demise in 2002, Andreas performed regularly as the "resident crookologist"
on the popular CBC radio show "Basic Black", producing, in the process,
three collections of stories about famous scams, frauds and hoaxes from
around the world, as well as two similar collections for young adults.
After leading the Writers' Union
of Canada's crusade for public lending rights for Canadian writers from
1975 to 1985, Andreas became the founding Chair of the Public Lending Right
Commission in Ottawa in 1986 - a commission on which he still serves today.
12:30-1:30 pm Lunch
1:30-2:45
Workshop 1: Andrew Nikiforuk --
Writing the Environment
For the last two decades Andrew
Nikiforuk has written about energy, economics and the west for a variety
of Canadian publications including Walrus, Maclean's, Canadian Business,
Report on Business, Chatelaine, Georgia Straight, Equinox and Harrowsmith.
In the late 1990s he investigated the social and ecological impacts of
intensive livestock industries for the Calgary Herald and recently wrote
a position paper on water diversion in the Great Lakes for the University
of Toronto’s Munk Centre (2004). Last year he completed a major series
on peak oil for CBC Radio as well as a lengthy investigation on coal bed
methane for Report On Business Magazine and Canadian Business magazine.
He currently does an investigative biweekly environmental column for the
CBC, and writes a monthly column for Canadian Business on energy issues
(Full Disclosure). In his spare time he edits a newsletter for landowners
on oil and gas issues in the Canadian West: The Land Advocate (www.landadvocate.org).
Nikiforuk’s journalism has won seven National
Magazine Awards since 1989 and top honors for investigative writing from
the Association of Canadian Journalists. His dramatic Alberta-based
book, Saboteurs: Wiebo Ludwig’s War Against Big Oil, won the Governor General's
Award for Non-Fiction in 2002. His latest book, Pandemonium, examines the
impact of global trade on disease exchanges and has received widespread
national acclaim.
Nikiforuk and his wife and three sons,
Aidan, Keegan and Torin, live in Calgary, Alberta. Whether speaking or
writing about melting glaciers, educational shams, peak oil, or the destruction
of the boreal forest, Nikiforuk has earned a reputation as an honest and
provocative voice in Canadian journalism.
Nikiforuk's website is at: http://www.andrewnikiforuk.com
Workshop 2: Penney Kome -- Electronic
Creative Nonfiction
A workshop on: writing for the internet;
using the internet for research; creating your own website; exploring blogs;
and investigating the future of electronic publishing.
Author and journalist Penney Kome is currently
Editor of Straightgoods.com, Canada’s leading independent online newsmagazine.
She has published six books and hundreds of periodical articles, as well
as writing a national column for 12 years. She has been working with computers
since 1983 and with the Internet since 1995. See
Penney Kome's website and Straightgoods.com
2:45- 3:00 p.m Coffee
3:00-4:15 p.m. CNF
Craft Workshop: A Roundtable—
Bring your conundrums, messes and expertise
to this free for all exchange.
4:15
A Walk in the Woods or Free Time
6:00-7:15 pm Dinner
7:30-9:30 p.m.
Maggie Siggins CNF: From Page to Screen Big & Small Screening
and discussion is open to members and guests.
Maggie Siggins is an award-winning author
and scriptwriter. Her Revenge of the Land won the Governor-General's Award
for Literary Non-fiction and was adapted as a four-hour television mini-series
for broadcast on CBC and CBS. A Canadian Tragedy: JoAnn and Colin
Thatcher was also made into a four- hour mini-series broadcast on CBC,
NBC and around the world. A Canadian Tragedy won the Arthur Ellis
Crime Writers of Canada Award.
Maggie has worked as a reporter, columnist,
magazine-writer, and news producer. She has written many creative
nonfiction books and documentaries. Some of her works include Brian
and the Boys: A Story of Gang Rape, and Riel, A Life of Revolution and,
In Her Own Time: A Cultural History of Women, both of which won the City
of Regina Best Book Awards. In April 2005, her Bitter Embrace: White
Society's Assault on the Woodland Cree was published by McClelland &
Stewart. As the Toronto Star says, "Siggins has entered the domain of Pierre
Berton and Peter Newman-the domain of serious well-researched, popular
narrative." And the Winnipeg Sun raves, "Throw out the constitutional experts
and bring on more journalists like Maggie Siggins." Maggie's book, Bitter
Embrace, is currently being developed as a TV movie with APTN.
Maggie has written numerous documentaries
for 4 Square Productions Canada Ltd., including Mr. and Mrs. Mark Go to
Yorkton, Twin Stars, and Scarred by History: Unhealed Wounds, which was
nominated for "Best Historical Documentary" at Toronto's International
Documentary Film Festival. Nanjing Nightmares, the story of the Rape
of Nanjing is a poignant treatment of the horror experienced by one Chinese-Canadian
family during this horrific event. The film was broadcast on History Television,
SCN, and Omni TV (in Chinese) and throughout China and received a nomination
for Best Scriptwriter at the SMPIA Showcase Awards. A related film, "End
of Empire", also written by Maggie deals with the events in 1941-42, when
the Japanese Army conquered Singapore. Sister Kay, broadcast on Canada's
Vision Television and CTV, has been nominated for a prestigious Gabriel
Award. She wrote Stage, Screen and Reserve: The Life and Times of
Gordon Tootoosis (CBC) that won the Best Feature Documentary Award at the
Fargo Film Festival in 2004.
9:30-10:30 p.m Social
gathering
Sunday, April 22, 2007
8:00-9:00 am Breakfast
9:15-11:45
Business Meeting
1. Election of Officers
for our society
2. Approval of budget,
etc.
3. Fundraising.
4. Topics for the 2008
conference
5. Election of conference
organisers
6. Additional business
12:00 noon
Check-out
12:15-1:30 pm Lunch
For information contact janice.williamson
at ualberta.ca
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