The Centre for Creative Writing and Oral Culture
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Watch our Winter 2021 Writer-in-Residence Welcome event for Katherena Vermette. Greetings from Director Warren Cariou and Associate Dean Rob Hoppa followed by readings from Katherena Vermette and followed by a question and answer period.

You’re invited to the virtual Welcome Event one week from today on Tuesday, Feb 2 for the The Centre for Creative Writing and Oral Culture’s Winter 2021 Writer-...In-Residence Katherena Vermette. Hear readings from Vermette and messages from Associate Dean Rob Hoppa and Centre Director Warren Cariou. To attend this free event, email [email protected] to obtain the Zoom link. #umanitoba #creativewriting EFTSA - English, Film, & Theatre Student Association

Read the UM Today article about our Winter Writer-In-Residence, Katherena Vermette. #universityofmanitoba https://news.umanitoba.ca/bestselling-winnipeg-author-late/

Please join us for a Welcome Event for our Winter Writer-In-Residence, Ms. Katherena Vermette. Email [email protected] for the Zoom link.

Please join me in welcoming our Winter 2021 Writer-In-Residence, Katherena Vermette. She joins us starting next week. Katherena Vermette is a Métis writer from Treaty One territory, the heart of the Métis nation, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Her first book, North End Love Songs (The Muses Company) won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry. Her novel, The Break (House of Anansi) was bestseller in Canada and won multiple awards and nominations. She is also the auth...or of the picture book The Girl and The Wolf (Theytus), the graphic novel series, A Girl Called Echo (Highwater Press), and co-wrote and co-directed the Canadian Screen Award winning short doc, this river (NFB). Vermette lives with her family in a cranky old house within skipping distance of the temperamental Red River.

Contact CCWOC for a complimentary memoir writing consultation with our Writer-In-Residence, Ms. Lindsay Wong. [email protected] CCWOC for a complimentary memoir writing consultation with our Writer-In-Residence, Ms. Lindsay Wong. [email protected]

Next reading period begins October 15 #umanalumni #umanitoba Join the UM Alumni Book Club: https://bit.ly/3n1tr4y

Our second recipient of the C.D.Howe Fellowship is Antony Zhang. He is a M.A. student in the Department of English, Theatre, Fiim & Media. Congratuations Antony!

CCWOC is pleased to announce this year's first C.D. Howe Recipient, Sehar Mustaq,a Ph.D. Candidate in Peace and Conflict Studies. Sehar’s research explores Indigenous processes of peacemaking and peacebuilding. Through in-person interviews and participant observation, she aims to discern the peacebuilding practices based on the oral law that govern and guide behaviour concerning the expression and resolution of conflicts among the Indigenous Kalash people of Pakistan.... Congratulations Sehar!

Welcoming Lindsay as our CCWOC Fall 2020 Writer in Residence. -Words from Dean Taylor and Dr. Cariou -C.D. Howe recipients announced -Readings by MA student Jessica Bound and Lindsay Wong -Short Q & A.

Learn more about our Writer-In-Residence, Ms. Lindsay Wong in the UM Today. We are hosting a Virtual Welcome Event, with a reading by Ms. Wong, on Thursday, September 24th from 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. (CT) Contact [email protected] with your name and telephone number to join this Zoom event. All are welcome to attend!