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Memoir & BiographySlice Me Some Truth: An Anthology of Canadian Creative Non-fictionLuanne Armstrong & Zoë Landale • Wolsak & WynnA ground-breaking survey of today’s creative non-fiction in Canada, a complex and captivating field ofwriting that the editors spent four years exploring in the creation of this book. Covering the areas ofmemoir, personal essay, literary travel, nature writing, lyric essay, as well as researched literary journalismand cultural criticism, Slice Me Some Truth thoroughly explores the depth and breadth of creative nonfictionwriting in Canada, highlighting brilliant writing from thirty-six authors from across the country.Luanne Armstrong is the author of fourteen books. She is an adjunct professor of creative writing at theUniversity of British Columbia.ISBN-13: 9781894987608paperback / 402 pp6 x 9 / $29.00September 2011Zoë Landale’s creative non-fiction and poetry has won several awards. She lives in British Columbia whereshe is the chair of the creative writing department at Kwantlen Polytechnic University.Key words: Creative non-fiction, Narrative studies, Memoir, Personal essay, Literary travel writing,Nature writing, Lyric essay, Language & writingWho Killed Ty Conn: Updated EditionLinden MacIntyre & Theresa Burke • Creative Book PublishingWho Killed Ty Conn is the brilliant investigative work of Linden MacIntyre and Theresa Burke, the currenthost and producer, respectively, of the CBC’s the fifth estate. It tells the tragic story of Ty Conn’s life ofcrime and misfortune. Originally published by Viking Canada in 2000, the book has been updated andreissued with a new afterword from the author and a new foreword by author and criminologist ElliottLeyton. A classic in the literature of true crime, Who Killed Ty Conn portrays a man coming to terms with alife of rejection—and the social system that failed to save him.ISBN-13: 9781897174746paperback / 350 pp5.5 x 8.5 / $19.95July 2011Linden MacIntyre is the author of the 2009 Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning novel The Bishop’s Man. Heis also the author of the bestselling novel The Long Stretch, and a childhood memoir, Causeway, for whichhe won the Evelyn Richardson Prize and the Edna Staebler Award for Non-fiction. When not writing, he isthe host of Canada’s best-known investigative television show, CBC’s the fifth estate.Key words: True crime, Criminal justice system, Canadian law, Canadian criminal historyWhen Tish Happens:The Unlikely Story of Canada’s “Most Influential Literary Magazine”Frank Davey • ECW PressIn the early 1960s, a group of students at UBC started a magazine called Tish. In many ways, Tish, andits editors, became the clear break from older Canadian poets and styles. At the heart of the “movement”was Frank Davey, who has written this definitive history. Davey has organized the material as a memoir,starting from his own early days in Abbotsford, British Columbia, and gradually introducing the otherpoets, including George Bowering, Daphne Marlatt, and Fred Wah. The Tish movement provided theimpetus to create a new, more contemporary Canadian poetry, and Frank Davey reveals how it started,grew, and became a lasting force.ISBN-13: 9781550229585paperback / 342 pp6 x 9 / $19.95April 2011Frank Davey is a widely published author and literary critic. He has taught at York University and theUniversity of Western Ontario, where he held the Carl F. Klinck Professorship in Canadian Literature.Key words: Literary history in Canada, Countercultural movements, Black Mountain poets movement,Literary magazines, Canadian poetry, Media studies, Memoir30 Literary Press Group / Congress 2013