Slice Me Some Truth: An Anthology of Canadian Creative Nonfiction - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1894987608 ISBN 13: 9781894987608

Publisher: Wolsak and Wynn Publishers Ltd., 2011

Synopsis

Luanne Armstrong and Zoë Landale have put together a thorough survey of the growing body of Canadian creative non-fiction, covering the areas of memoir, personal essay, cultural journalism, lyric essay and nature or place essays. These works are only a sampling of the diversity of Canadian writing, but together they create the best possible beginning for the exploration of this intriguing genre.

About this title

About the Author:

Luanne Armstrong's creative non-fiction has been published in a number of journals including Tessera, Geist and Event. She teaches creative non-fiction and Teaching Creative Writing in the UBC Optional Residency Creative Writing MFA program.

Zoë Landale teaches creative writing at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. Her work has won significant awards in three genres, including a National Magazine Gold for memoir and first place in the 2003 CBC Literary Competition for poetry.

Review:

"This collection contains samples of the memoir, personal essay, cultural journalism, travel pieces, a lyric or segmented essay, musings on nature and place, and, finally, cross genre writing." - Feminist Caucus

About this edition

• Publisher: Wolsak and Wynn Publishers Ltd.
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1894987608
• ISBN 13: 9781894987608
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 402
• Editor: Armstrong Luanne, Landale Zoë