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Newest MFA launches at oldest university in Canada


Canada's newest MFA program kicked off with a reception
Sunday evening at King's College University in Halifax. The program is the first in the country to focus exclusively on Creative Nonfiction. King's College itself dates back to 1789, a year of revolution if ever there was one. Founders Don Sedgwick and Stephen Kimber, best known as agent and author, respectively, have spent five years developing the program. Our hero is one of four mentors helping to launch the low-residency extravaganza. Participants will spend two weeks in Halifax,
roughing out book projects. Then, in consultation with a series of mentors -- whose numbers will be growing -- they will develop them into publishable books. Along the way, they'll check in with book publishers in Toronto and New York. That's the plan. Doesn't it make you want to party?
Ken McGoogan
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Before turning mainly to books about arctic exploration and Canadian history, Ken McGoogan worked for two decades as a journalist at major dailies in Toronto, Calgary, and Montreal. He teaches creative nonfiction writing through the University of Toronto and in the MFA program at King’s College in Halifax. Ken served as chair of the Public Lending Right Commission, has written recently for Canada’s History, Canadian Geographic, and Maclean’s, and sails with Adventure Canada as a resource historian. Based in Toronto, he has given talks and presentations across Canada, from Dawson City to Dartmouth, and in places as different as Edinburgh, Melbourne, and Hobart.