Stories of survival, travel, finding home and family, and strengthening democracy – these are the subjects of new books by four graduates of the University of King’s College Master of Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction program who will be celebrated during the Ninth Donald Sedgwick Reading Series.
Please join us on Friday June 13, 7-8:30 p.m. in the Halifax Central Library’s Paul O’Regan Hall 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:
- Gwen Lamont, The View From Coffin Ridge: A Childhood Exhumed (The Ginger Press)
- James MacDuff and Mirriam Mweemba, The Illogical Adventure: A Memoir of Love and Fate (Pottersfield Press)
- Bonny Reichert, How to Share an Egg: A True Story of Hunger, Love, and Plenty (Appetite by Random House)
- Jo-Ann Roberts, Storm the Ballot Box: An Insider’s Guide to a Voting Revolution (Nimbus)
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 70 graduates have published books they developed and wrote as students. An MFA in Fiction program was added in 2023.
