We’re pleased to announce not one, but two smashing events at Montreal’s Blue Metropolis Festival that have been brought to you by carte blanche editors. This Really Happened, the brainchild [More…]
carte blanche at Blue Metropolis
à la carte blog
Announcing the shortlist for the carte blanche/CNFC competition
carte blanche and the Creative Nonfiction Collective Society are pleased to announce the shortlist for our 2014-15 creative nonfiction competition.
The winner of the competition will be announced on Saturday, April 25th at the 11th Annual CNFC Conference in Victoria.
Announcing the long list for carte blanche/CNFC contest
carte blanche and the Creative Nonfiction Collective Society are pleased to announce the long list for our 2014-15 creative nonfiction competition.
Congratulations to everyone who made the long list and a big thank you to everyone who participated!
Where I Was When I Discovered Crime and Punishment
When I was seventeen, living in Edmonton, I knew a boy named Mitch who, unlike the rest of us suburban softies, already lived on his own and had to pay his way through life. Mitch was violent, and routinely beat up his friends for perceived transgressions against him. He had a heroic scar on his face from the time he pissed off a drug gang and they went after him with a hatchet.
Au revoir, not goodbye
This past fall, carte blanche celebrated its 10th anniversary, and it has been 10 years that I have been involved in the magazine, first as a co-founder, then as editor. The time has come for me to move on.
Stepping down as editor feels a little like how I imagine parents feel when sending a first child off to college…
Announcing the judge for the 2015 carte blanche/CNFC contest
Charlotte Gill is the author Eating Dirt, a tree-planting memoir nominated for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize, the Charles Taylor Prize, and two BC Book Prizes. It was the 2012 winner of the BC National Award for Canadian Nonfiction.