Notice Board

The Centre for Oral History and Tradition and the Galt Museum & Archives will present:

Writer's Workshop: Using Oral Histories to Write Creative Non-fiction
Natalie Appleton & Jenna Bailey
Note:  this workshop will be moderated by Dr. Jay Gamble (English Department, U of L)
Friday, May 26, 2017
10:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Galt Museum & Archives (502 - 1st Street S)
Workshop Fee:  $20 (includes lunch)
For registration please call 403-320-3898 (registration cut-off is May 19, 2017)

This writer's workshop is an opportunity to learn from award winning and best-selling authors Natalie Appleton and Jenna Bailey about how to use oral history when writing creative non-fiction.  Natalie and Jenna will discuss their writing, exploring the ways in which they use interviews to make stories from the past come to life.  

Both authors will provide an insight into their writing process, shedding light on different strategies that can be employed when writing non-fiction texts.  This workshop will  provide practical tools for writers that they may be able to use in their own writing and will include a Q &A session.  

10:00 - 10:45 a.m.:  Both Natalie and Jenna will discuss their writing, exploring the various ways in which oral histories form a part of their work and how they use intereviews to make stories from the past come to life

10:45 - 11:15:  Moderated Q & A with the authors and Dr. Jay Gamble (English Department, U of L)

11:15 - 11:20:  Tea Break

11:20 - 12:00:  Both authors will provide an insight into their writing process, shedding light on different strategies that can be employed when using oral history interviews in non-fiction texts.  This workshop will provide practical tools for writers that they may be able to use in their own writing

12:00 - 1:00:  Audience Q & A with the authors over lunch

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Natalie Appleton is an award-winning Alberta writer living in Vernon, BC. She is a graduate of the University of Regina School of Journalism and the MA in Creative Writing (Narrative non-fiction) program at City University London, UK. In her former life as a journalist, she worked at newspapers across the Prairies, including the Lethbridge Herald. Natalie recently won the Banff Centre Bliss Carman Poetry Contest, and a short non-fiction story about Lethbridge's Leong family was longlisted for the 2016 CBC Creative Non-fiction Contest. Her stories have appeared in publications around the world, including The New York Times. 

Jenna Bailey is a writer, historian and oral history consultant.  She is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Oral History and Tradition (COHT).  Jenna is the author of the best-selling Can Any Mother Help Me? (Faber) which has been translated into Dutch and made into a theatrical production that toured the UK.  She has written for The Scotsman, Cosmopolitan Magazine, You Magazine, The Book Magazine and BBC History Magazine.  Jenna's most recent essay was published in an edited collection entitled A Grief Observed Readers' Edition alongside works by C.S. Lewis, Hilary Mantel, Rowan  Williams and Francis Spufford.  Jenna  is currently writing a book about Ivy's Benson's All Girl Band.