Time is running out, so get your submissions in to the carte blanche/Creative Nonfiction Collective Society creative nonfiction competition. The winner will receive $500 and her/his text will be published in carte blanche. The winner will be announced in 2014.
This Really Happened, the popular nonfiction storytelling series, is coming back to Calgary’s WordFest on October 16th! With Todd Babiak, Craig Davidson, Ophira Eisenberg, Lisa Moore, and Michael Winter.
I’ve been thinking a lot about story, about the patterns that stories take. When I begin to write a book, I rarely know where it’s going. But go it does, on and on, through a trajectory that is both consciously and unconsciously created. It mainly follows the Western story arc–conflict, rising action, climax, denouement. Even though that seems formulaic, when I write that arc stretches above me, like a preordained path that I, willy-nilly, must follow.
Chicago doesn’t disappoint me. I never have the feeling, as I do when I visit New York, that I have missed out on some tantalizing place that has vanished only recently. Chicago’s heydays seem so distant, it’s as though there is nothing to lament.
Yes, it’s true! carte blanche and the Creative Nonfiction Collective Society have teamed up to bring you a Canada-wide creative nonfiction contest. The winner will receive $500 and her/his text will be published in carte blanche. The winner will be announced in 2014.