Events
Online book chat with Neil Besner
Wednesday, September 14 at 7:00 p.m. Central Standard Time (CST), 8:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) Join the Manitoba Writers’ Guild for a virtual meeting with writer Neil Besner. Listen to him reading from his latest work, the memoir Fishing With Tardelli: A Memoir of Family in Time Lost, and then have the opportunity to ask Neil questions about his book or about writing in general.
To receive the Zoom instructions, please email manitobawritersguild3@gmail.com
Winnipeg Book Launch - Fishing with Tardelli
Join Neil Besner for the launch of Fishing With Tardelli: A Memoir of Family in Time Lost (ECW Press), hosted by Dennis Cooley and featuring special guests Warren Cariou and Catherine Hunter. The launch will be hosted live in the Atrium of McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park and also available as a simultaneous YouTube stream. See here for more information.
Toronto Book Launch - Fishing with Tardelli
Toronto book launch for Fishing with Tardelli. Register for the event here.
Writing a Memoir: Storytelling, Truth, Time, Memory, and the Imagination with Neil Besner
Drawing on the experience of the instructor, this workshop discusses the process of writing a memoir from first to last. It explores the differences and relations among fictional and nonfictional forms — between a novel and a memoir, between invention and recollection, between memory and the imagination. Discusses the uses and misuses of memory and “true events” and discusses how to organize and develop material and a voice.