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It's Earth Day, and this month's MFA Book Club selection is fitting! Join us on Thursday as we discuss The Tides of Time: A Nova Scotia Book of Seasons by Suzanne Stewart - a beautiful book that examines the seasonal harvests of the province. 7:00pm BMO Room, HPL Main Branch. 📚

King's MFA student Simone Blais is the inaugural recipient of the Peter Mansbridge Award for Investigative Writing. The award provides funds to complete research for a writing project with strong publication potential. Congratulations, Simone! ukings.ca/news/inaugural…

King's MFA graduate Kirsten Fogg had a Tiny Love Story published in the New York Times this week (it's right at the end of the April 30th Tiny Love Stories). Congratulations, Kirsten!

King's MFA Program is pleased to announce Adrienne Gruber will be the Writer in Residence for this year's Nonfiction Residency. Her book, Monsters, Martyrs, and Marionettes: Essays on Motherhood, was published on May 1, 2024. We look forward to seeing her at King's this June!

Several King’s MFA mentors and graduates have been nominated for this year's National Magazine Award! Good luck to mentors Omar Mouallem, and Karen Pinchin, and graduates Niko Bell (CO 2023), Lesley Buxton (CO 2016), Lana Hall (CO 2023), and future graduate Monica Kidd (CO 2025)!

This year’s Fiction Writer in Residence is Scott Alexander Hamilton. Scott has a PhD in philosophy from U. of Toronto and was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard where he focused on the relationship between memory, emotion, and literature. The Other Valley is his first novel.

When three Master of Fine Arts graduands—Amy Cameron, Michaela Cavanagh, and Joanna Cheek— were asked what distinguishes King’s Creative Nonfiction program, the answer was the same. Community. Read the full article on the King’s website: ukings.ca/news/class-of-…

Join us via ZOOM for the Eighth Donald Sedgwick Reading Series as four graduates from King’s MFA in Creative Nonfiction Program explore the issues of home, belonging, family, and place. June 6, 2024, 7:00 pm AST. Please register online at ukings.ca/events/8th-don…

Esmeralda Cabral reads from HOW TO CLEAN A FISH at the Donald Sedgwick Reading Series at U of King's College, Halifax, June 6 at 7 pm. Also reading will be Gina Leola Woolsey, Gloria Blizzard|Writer, and W.J. Sullivan. bit.ly/3UH0qwH Guernica Editions Dundurn Press KingsMFA

Yay Halifax, indeed! Register online for the Sedgwick Readings here: ukings.ca/events/8th-don…

Friend of the MFA Program, and co-operative bookseller extraordinaire, Paul MacKay will be receiving The Order of the Ancient Commoner this Sunday, June 1, at Alumni Day. We appreciate all that you do for this community, Paul! Congratulations!! 🚲📚🎈

Thanks so much to everyone who attended last night's talk with our Creative Nonfiction Writer in Residence, Adrienne Gruber.

The Eighth Donald Sedgwick Reading Series is happening TONIGHT at 7pm in Alumni Hall. Join us as we celebrate the MFA Program, its graduates, and the amazing books they have published. Details here ukings.ca/events/8th-don…

Registration is open for an all-new lineup of Noncredit Writing Workshops. Earlybird registration - and a $50 discount - ends August 31st. ukings.ca/programs/non-c…

King's Writing & Publishing Program is offering six new writing workshops online this October and November. Early bird pricing is available through August 30th. Find all the details and online registration at ukings.ca/programs/non-c…

This fall, join King's MFA Mentor Lezlie Lowe for a deep dive into research, & bring your writing project! Research lends manuscripts authorial power, scenic strength, + a narrative foundation. This workshop is for writers at all stages of their practice. ukings.ca/programs/non-c…

Join Adrianne Gruber this fall for King’s 8-week Art of the Essay workshop. This online course will help you in find your voice as a non-fiction writer and locate the heart of your story. Earlybird pricing is in effect until August 31. ukings.ca/programs/non-c…

Tonight's Friendship and Writing event in Toronto has been postponed. This was to be a celebration of David Pate's newly published book, The Worst Songs in the World. Stay tuned for a new date.