Sometimes we just gotta mess things up. Learn to: Read critically and become your own mentor; To leave the comfort zone of nice, tidy sentences; The concept of modelling to express one’s self more creatively; Experiment with rhythm and repetition.
Donna Morrissey (Keynote) was born and raised in a small outport in Newfoundland. She is the author of several books including Sylvanus Now which was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. Her most recent book, Pluck: A Memoir of a Newfoundland Childhood and The Raucous, Terrible, Amazing Journey to becoming a Novelist (shortlisted for the 2022 Evelyn Richardson Non-fiction Award), is a deeply personal account of love’s restorative ability as it leads her through mental illness, death, and despair to becoming the writer she is today. She teaches creative writing and lives in Halifax.
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