Upcoming Events and Workshops
Where We Meet
The CAA Okanagan Branch meetings are held on the last Saturday of the month (except for July & August) and writers' chitchat gatherings are held on all second Wednesdays starting at 1 p.m. (except for July & August). Saturday meetings are held at the Kelowna Main Library, 2nd floor meeting room.
The sessions on the second Wednesday at noon a Staccatto's bistro at the RCA will continue until June.
Events:
UPCOMING OCCASIONS:Jan 14, 2009, 12:00 to ~2:00: Informal meetings continue at Staccato's (RCA) to read and discuss our works-in-progress.
Jan 31, 2009, 1:00 to 3:00: End of the month seminar meeting: this time an opportunity to update us all on what you've been up to in your writing life, and maybe project what's on the horizon for you. In the upstairs meeting room, Kelowna Main Library on Ellis.
Jan 14, 2009, 12:00 to ~2:00: Informal meetings continue at Staccato's (RCA) to read and discuss our works-in-progress.
Jan 31, 2009, 1:00 to 3:00: End of the month seminar meeting: this time an opportunity to update us all on what you've been up to in your writing life, and maybe project what's on the horizon for you. In the upstairs meeting room, Kelowna Main Library on Ellis.
Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies presents: UBC Okanagan's Writer-in-Residence FRED STENSON
Novelist and non-fiction writer Fred Stenson is UBC O's second annual writer-in-residence. Sponsored by the Department of Creative Studies, this program allows 16 selected local writers to get free critiques on their work.
"We are thrilled to have Fred Stenson as our writer in residence," says Nancy Holmes, Head of the Department of Creative Studies. "I hope all local writers attempt to take advantage of this rare opportunity to benefit from the advice of a true professional."
Fred Stenson is the author of fifteen books, eight of fiction and seven of non-fiction. His most recent work is The Great Karoo, a historical novel about Canadian involvement in the Boer War, which received a Governor General's Award nomination for Fiction in 2008. This completes a trio of historical novels that includes The Trade (2000), which was nominated for the Giller prize, and Lightning (2003). His most recent non-fiction book is Waterton: Brush and Pen, a combination of Brent Laycock's art and Stenson's essays. His title Things Feigned or Imagined is a guide to the craft of fiction. Stenson is currently 2nd Vice-Chair of The Writers' Union of Canada and is the director of the Wired Writing Studio at The Banff Centre. He lives in Cochrane, Alberta.
Stenson will spend two weeks on the UBC O campus from March 1 to 15, 2009. Besides meeting with local writers, he will be giving a free public reading and conducting a workshop called The Art and Craft of Historical Fiction.
Writers in the Central Okanagan are invited to have their work critiqued and to participate in a one-on-one meeting with Stenson. Appointments are limited to 16, with 6 of the 16 spaces reserved for UBC Okanagan students.
If you would like to be considered for an appointment, send a maximum of 15 double-spaced pages of your fiction or non-fiction (plus a one-page synopsis if it is an excerpt from a longer work). Your work should be sent in an email between January 12 and January 31st to barbra.macdonald@ubc.ca. In the email give your name, student number (if applicable), phone number, and email address. Please put "Writer in Residence" in the subject line.
For more information about the public reading or the writer-in-residence program, contact Nancy Holmes, Dept. of Creative Studies at UBC Okanagan, 250-807-9369 or nancy.holmes@ubc.ca. To register in the workshop, contact Elaine Crebo, Community and Continuing Studies at UBC Okanagan 250- 807-9981 or elaine.crebo@ubc.ca
www.caaokanaganwriters.org/events.html
Updated: February 16, 2007