Not Your Mother's Book Club- November events

by - November 5, 2014

The McMaster community and members of the public are invited to join McMaster's Writer-in-Residence, Hal Niedzviecki, for a series of free events taking place throughout November.

The McMaster community and members of the public are invited to join McMaster's Writer-in-Residence, Hal Niedzviecki, for a series of free events taking place throughout November.

Niedzviecki is author of The Peep Diaries, named one of Oprah’s “25 Books You Can’t Put Down.” He is also a writer, speaker, culture commentator and editor, whose work challenges preconceptions and confronts readers with the offenses of everyday life. He is the author of 8 books of fiction and non-fiction and is the founder and publisher of Broken Pencil: the magazine of zine culture and the independent arts.

 

Niedzviecki will be hosting the following events:

 

Publishing in the Era of Kindle- Answering your questions about when, why and how to publish.

When: Tuesday November 11 12:30-1:30

Where: Mills Library 3rd Floor, McMaster Campus.  

 

Writing Memoir: A workshop-  Getting started on writing memoir and personal essay

When: Wednesday November 19 10:30-12:00

Where: Dundas Branch of Hamilton Public Library

http://www.hpl.ca/events/dundas-branch-memoir-writing-hal-niedzviecki  

 

In the Future We’ll be Robots: Creativity in the Digital Era A workshop and conversation about creativity in the present-future.

When: Monday Nov. 24th 12:30-1:30

Where: Mills Library 3rd Floor, McMaster Campus.

 
To contact Hal, email englwir@mcmaster.ca
 
Niedzviecki is this year's Mabel Pugh Taylor Writer-in-Residence, co-sponsored by McMaster and the Hamilton Public Library. He is dividing his time equally between the Dept. of English and Cultural Studies, and Hamilton Public Library, consulting one-on-one with apprentice writers in the community, and devoting approximately 60% of his time to his own writing, an important goal of the Residency program.