The NSWA monthly members’ meeting on May 26 will feature award-winning author and journalist Carol Shaben. Her first book, Into the Abyss, is a National Bestseller, and an Amazon.com Best Nonfiction Editor’s Pick. It won the Edna Staebler Award for Nonfiction, was selected by Barnes & Noble as a Discover Great New Writers pick and was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. Carol’s second book, The Marriott Cell, co-written with Egyptian-Canadian journalist Mohamed Fahmy, was long listed for the 2018 RBC Taylor Prize and named one of The Globe & Mail’s 100 Best Books of the Year. Both books have been optioned for film.
A former CBC Radio journalist, Carol is the recipient of two National Magazine Awards, including a Gold Medal for Investigative Journalism, and was nominated Best New Magazine writer. She currently mentors graduate writing students at the University of Kings, and has worked as a Faculty Editor at the Banff Centre’s Literary Journalism Program, and adjunct professor in UBC’s School of Creative Writing.
Meeting: North Vancouver City Library, 120 14th StW, 7pm.
