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Bill Schermbrucker: "My aim in reviewing a book is to tell a specific audience of the publication medium I am reviewing for whether or not the book will interest them, in my opinion."
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Bill Schermbrucker

Fiction writer and consummate book reviewer Bill Schermbrucker was born in Kenya and is the winner of an Ethel Wilson Fiction Award here in B.C. Frequent jurist - Canada Council grants to artists and writers and this year's B.C. Book Prizes fiction jurist - he has fascinating information about how juries are selected and prizes decided. Bill Schermbrucker has accepted the offer to run a Memoir Writing workshop in Banff in 2008.

Topics: jurying for book awards and prizes; Canada Council & BC grants to artists and writers; the process of reviewing books versus jurying them; the number of book awards in Canada; about Canadian writer Matt Cohen, obituary remarks by Margaret Atwood in Maclean's, through The Canadian Encyclopedia Matt Cohen; writing for Event, the literary magazine, published from Douglas College, New Westminster; resource site about how to write a thoughtful book review Dalhousie University Libraries. (The "how to" fiction reviewing starts on the second page).

Listen to Show #24, a half-hour conversation with Bill Schermbrucker.

Most recently Bill Schermbrucker is a producer for The Writers' Show and instructor in the memoir, as well as fiction writer, jurist and book reviewer. In this segment he discusses the fine line between fiction and memoir and the question of fiction and non-fiction.

Topics: Creative Nonfiction magazine, edited by Lee Gutkind; "A lie that tells the truth: Memoir and the art of memory," by Joel Agee, in the November 2007 Harper's Magazine, also available online if you're a member (about $20 a year).

Listen to Show #32
Bill Schermbrucker starts at the half-hour mark.

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