Lost families, lost history, a flair for fashion, and the challenges of raising a disabled child – these are the subjects of new books by four graduates of the King’s Master of Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction program, who will be celebrated during the Tenth Donald Sedgwick Reading Series.
Please join us for this annual reading series, named for the MFA program’s co-founder, former publisher, agent and publishing instructor, Donald Sedgwick. This year’s featured readers are:
- Amy Fish, MFA’23, One in Six Million: The Baby by the Roadside and the Man Who Retraced a Holocaust Survivor’s Lost Identity (Goose Lane Editions)
- Deirdre Macdonald, MFA’15, Her Hat in the Ring: Toronto Milliner El Jamon and Her Circle (Self Published)
- Lori McKay, BJ(Hons)’97, MFA’20, Searching for Mayflowers: The True Story of Canada’s First Quintuplets (Nimbus Publishing)
- Adelle Purdham, MFA’22, I Don’t Do Disability and Other Lies I’ve Told Myself (Dundurn Press)
The authors will discuss their books after the readings, and the King’s Co-op Bookstore will have copies of the featured books for sale and signing.
The MFA in Creative Nonfiction program was founded in 2013, and so far, more than 90 graduates have published books they developed and wrote as students. An MFA in Fiction program was added in 2023.
