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Award-winning author Karen Connelly is UBC’s writer-in-residence

November 30, 2011

Award-winning author Karen Connelly is UBC's writer-in-residence

Award-winning author Karen Connelly is UBC’s writer-in-residence

Students, Central Okanagan writers get opportunity to have work critiqued

Award-winning writer Karen Connelly is the fifth annual writer-in-residence at UBC’s Okanagan campus. Sponsored by the Department of Creative Studies and the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies, this program allows 16 selected local writers to get free critiques of their work.

Karen Connelly is the author of nine books of best-selling nonfiction, fiction, and poetry, the most recent being Burmese Lessons: a love story, a memoir about her experiences in Burma and on the Thai-Burma border. She has won the Pat Lowther Award for her poetry, the Governor General’s Award for her non-fiction, and Britain’s Orange Broadband Prize for New Fiction for her first novel The Lizard Cage. Published in 2005, The Lizard Cage was compared in the New York Times Book Review to the works of Orwell, Solzhenitsyn, and Mandela, and hailed in the Globe and Mail as “one of the best modern Canadian novels.”

Connelly’s other books include Grace and Poison, One Room in a Castle, This Brighter Prison, The Disorder of Love, and The Small Words in My Body. Married with a young child, she divides her time between a home in rural Greece and a home in Toronto.

Connelly will spend two weeks on UBC’s Okanagan campus from January 23 to February 3, 2012. Besides meeting with local writers, she will meet with various UBC creative writing classes.

Writers in the Central Okanagan are invited to have their work critiqued and to participate in a one-on-one meeting with Connelly. Appointments are limited to 16, with six of the 16 spaces reserved for UBC Okanagan campus students.

If you would like to be considered for an appointment, send a maximum of 15 double-spaced pages of your fiction (plus a one-page synopsis if it is an excerpt from a longer work).  Your submission should be sent in an email between December 15 and January 3, 2012 to irma.ronkkonen@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 Michael V. Smith, Department of Creative Studies at UBC’s Okanagan campus, 250-807-9706 or michael.v.smith@ubc.ca.

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