Emily Urquhart

The Third Age of Creativity: Emily Urquhart

Emily Urquhart and Donna Bailey Nurse

The Third Age of Creativity: Emily Urquhart

Emily Urquhart and Donna Bailey Nurse

4:00pm

Sunday, October 25, 2020

45 mins

National Magazine award-winning writer and folklorist Emily Urquhart is the bestselling author of Beyond the Pale: Folklore, Family and the Mystery of our Hidden Genes. Her latest book, The Age of Creativity: Art, Memory, My Father and Me paints a moving portrait of a father, the artist Tony Urquhart, their relationship and a case for late-stage creativity. Learn more about this eagerly anticipated memoir, shortlisted for the Allan Slaight Prize for Journalism, through this intimate conversation with Urquhart.

Interviewer: Donna Bailey Nurse

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National Magazine award-winning writer and folklorist Emily Urquhart is the bestselling author of Beyond the Pale: Folklore, Family and the Mystery of our Hidden Genes. Her latest book, The Age of Creativity: Art, Memory, My Father and Me paints a moving portrait of a father, the artist Tony Urquhart, their relationship and a case for late-stage creativity. Learn more about this eagerly anticipated memoir, shortlisted for the Allan Slaight Prize for Journalism, through this intimate conversation with Urquhart.

Interviewer: Donna Bailey Nurse

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Emily Urquhart
Emily Urquhart is a National Magazine Award–winning writer with a doctorate in folklore from Memorial University of Newfoundland. Her first book, Beyond the Pale: Folklore, Family, and the Mystery of Our Hidden Genes, was a Maclean’s bestseller, a finalist for the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction and a Globe and Mail Best Book of 2015. Her freelance writing has appeared in the Toronto Star, The Walrus, Longreads and more. She is a nonfiction editor for the New Quarterly and teaches creative nonfiction at Wilfrid Laurier University. She lives in Kitchener, Ontario, with her husband and their two children.

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Donna Bailey Nurse
Donna Bailey Nurse is a Canadian literary critic, curator and writer. She is the author of What’s a Black Critic To Do? and the editor of Revival: An Anthology of Black Canadian Writing. Donna is a contributor to the Walrus, The Globe and Mail and the Literary Review of Canada and a columnist for CBC Radio’s The Next Chapter. She was a jury member for the 2019 Scotiabank Giller Prize and is currently at work on a Black history book for Harper Collins Canada, part of a two-book deal that includes a memoir of her Jamaican family. 

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Emily Urquhart

4:00pm

Sunday, October 25

45 mins

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