Shelagh Plunkett’s first book will be launched by Penguin Canada in August 2013. A work of literary non-fiction, it tells of her adolescence spent living in Guyana, South America soon after that country gained independence and includes an account of her time in Timor, Indonesia during the Indonesian invasion. Shelagh has won the CBC Literary Award for creative non-fiction and been shortlisted for the award twice. Her work has been published in a number of national journals including The Walrus, enRoute, and Geist.
Bringing the personal to her creative non-fiction work is one of Shelagh’s strengths. Her work utilizes the tools of fiction (character development, dialogue, narrative arc, plot and theme) to tell stories that happen to be factual and that illuminate universal human truths. Insight into these skills, how to access them within oneself and how to put them to effective use in one’s writing, are some of the things that Shelagh would bring to any workshops, discussions or lectures she might present to CEGEP students. shelaghplunkett.wordpress.com