NIC’s Write Here Readers Series Returns Date: Thursday, September 29 Time: 7 pm Location: NIC Comox Valley Campus, Tyee Hall Fred Stenson
=0D=0A=Fred Stenson's sixth novel and ninth book of fiction, Who By Fire was published by Doubleday Canada in 2014. Stenson is the author of eighteen books in all and 150 films and videos. His titles include a trio of historical novels The Great Karoo, Lightning and The Trade. He has won several awards for his fiction: the WGA George Bugnet Novel Award (2001), The City of Edmonton Book Prize (2001), and the Grant MacEwan Writer’s Prize (2001 and 2006), and the CAA Fiction Award (1975). The Trade was shortlisted for the Giller Prize in 2000. The Great Karoo was a finalist for the Governor General’s Award for Fiction in 2008. Thing Feigned or Imagined, Stenson’s book on the craft of fiction is available from Banff Centre Press. Stenson directed the Wired Writing Studio at The Banff Centre for 15 years. He is a regular columnist for Alberta Views magazine. He lives in Cochrane, Alberta.
=0D=0A=Lorin Medley Lorin Medley is a writer from Comox, BC with poetry and short stories published in Portal magazine and in The Puritan, one of Canada’s premier online literary magazines. She won the 2014 Islands Short Fiction Contest and the 2015 Books Matter poetry prize and was long listed for the 2016 Prism International Poetry Contest. Myron Shutty Myron Shutty has a Creative Writing degree from the University of Victoria. He lives in the Comox Valley with his wife and has entered the empty-nest stage of life. Myron is a member of The Scribblers writing group and enjoys seeing what will come out of his pen.
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