Victoria Writers’ Society 9th Annual Writing Competition Awards

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Guest Speaker: Lynne Van Luven

Creative Non-Fiction: “Alive and Thriving on Vancouver Island”

Date: Wednesday September 8, 2010
Time: 7:00-9:00pm
Place: Oakland’s Community Centre, 2827 Belmont Avenue (near Hillside)

Please join us as we announce the winners in the Victoria Writers’ Society 9th Annual Writing Contest. Contest judges will present prizes to the top four entries in each category and winners will read from their work.

Following the awards, author, editor and writing instructor Lynne Van Luven will speak about the state of creative non-fiction on Vancouver Island, and will discuss recent successful books, publishers and strategies for getting your book published. She will also touch on how to know if creative non-fiction is what you want to write.

Van Luven is an associate professor at the University Of Victoria Department Of Writing. She edited the anthology of personal essays entitled Nobody’s Mother (TouchWood Editions, 2006), which in 2007 was nominated for two non-fiction awards. In September 2008, the “sibling anthology,” Nobody’s Father: Life Without Kids, was released by TouchWood, co-edited by Van Luven and Bruce Gillespie. Nobody’s Father features essays by 23 men who re-interpret what it is like to live as 21st- century childless males. She and Gillespie are now editing a collection of essays about adoption entitled Somebody’s Child. With Kathy Page she is also working on an anthology called Body Parts, which will be published in 2012.

Van Luven is now researching a book of personal essays about aging with attitude, tentatively entitled Flesh Wounds.

Please note our new venue this fall:

Oakland’s Community Centre,
2827 Belmont Avenue
(northwest corner of Oaklands School)