Whether you’re an academic with a career’s-worth of research on a particular topic, a professional seeking to transform your insights into a compelling book or a journalist on the trail of a big story or bigger idea, wrangling your research into readable text can be daunting.
Join us for a joint webinar from the King’s MFA in Creative Nonfiction program and Science Writers and Communicators of Canada, where we’ll hear from four writers at various stages of their book journeys about the challenges they’ve faced and the lessons they’ve learned along the way.
Moderated by Kim Pittaway, cohort director in the King’s MFA program.
Panelists
Joanna Cheek is a psychiatrist, mental health speaker, journalist, and author of the upcoming book, It’s Not You. It’s the World: A Mental Health Survival Guide.
Virginia Heffernan is a former geoscientist and author of Ring of Fire: High Stakes Mining in a Lowlands Wilderness published by ECW Press in 2023. She holds an MSc from the University of Toronto’s School of the Environment and an MFA from the University of King’s College.
Monica Kidd is an award-winning journalist specializing in science and health reporting, and a multidisciplinary writer. She is a former CBC science reporter and her print work has appeared in The Walrus, Canadian Geographic, Alberta Views, and The Toronto Star. Her third novel, The Crane, is slated for publication in 2025. She is at work on a reported creative nonfiction book called Holding Ground: The World’s Eroding Coastlines. She lives in Calgary.
Chris Moore is an academic psychologist with 40 years of university teaching and research experience. His area of academic research is social development in children. Most recently, he has focussed on moral development. As he puts it, “I have published well over 100 academic articles, many of which nobody has read.” His academic book, The Development of Commonsense Psychology, was published in 2006. His trade book, Guilt, will be published by Collins Canada in December 2025.
