Essentials of the Short Story: A conversation on craft with Nancy Jo Cullen and Tamas Dobozy

Hosted by John Metcalf

In Person Fiction

Friday

Apr , 2013

12:00pm

Eastern

Knox Presbyterian Church

120 Lisgar Street (at Elgin) • Ottawa

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Essentials of the Short Story: A conversation on craft with Nancy Jo Cullen and Tamas Dobozy

[E]ach story is masterful and tinged with a beguiling weirdness, and the interplay between them results in an unsettling historical diorama….

Brett Josef Grubisic, on Tamas Dobozy

Author and Editor John Metcalf leads us on an in-depth conversation on the craft of story writing with Nancy Jo Cullen, winner of the Metcalf-Rook Award for her collection Canary and Tamas Dobozy, winner of the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize for his collection Siege 13.

The Authors

Tamas Dobozy

Tamas Dobozy was born in Nanaimo, BC. After receiving his Ph.D. in English from the University of British Columbia, he taught at Memorial University. His work has been published in journals throughout North America, and in 1995 he won the annual subTerrain short fiction contest. When X Equals Marylou, his first collection of short fiction, was shortlisted for the Danuta Gleed Award. Siege 13 was a finalist for the 2012 Governor General’s Literary Award for English-Language Fiction, and winner of the 2012 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. Tamas Dobozy now teaches in the Department of English and Film Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario.