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by Corene McKay

Frankenstein author, Mary
Shelley, would have approved of
Douglas College’s choice of Writer in
Residence.
; Best-selling and award winning
| mystery novelist L. R. (Bunny) Wright
| was the first writer of genre fiction in
D. C.’s Writer in Residence program.
Genre. fiction, which includes
‘mysteries, science fiction, westerns and
romances, is often looked down upon
-by academia.
Shelley, who has been called the
Mother of Science Fiction, believed that
- genre writing could be used to explore
»human nature by revealing people’s
behavior in extreme situations.
Wright says she doesn’t
“distinguish between writing a mystery
novel and writing any other sort of
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but we’re only now coming to grips
with it, as we should have earlier.”

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Despite his record-breaking year,

D. C. Student, Sharon Fantillo,
agreed. “She [Wright] doesn’t take the
traditional ‘mystery’ approach. She
really concentrates on characterization.”

Wright explained that many people
get defensive about genre fiction
because they confuse [it] with formula
fiction.” Most genre writing is
developed according to formulas, which
lead to stereotypical plots, characters,
and settings.

D. C. Creative Writing instructor
Mary Burns was surprised by the
English Department’s reaction on
having a genre writer as Writer in
Residence.

“I was expecting more
[objections], she said. “People were
open to the idea. They seemed
interested,” she added.

Student interest was also
high.“I’ve been surprised —I don’t
know why—by the number of people

The Other Press

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Beason did not make the CIAU AIl-
Canadian team because he didn’t fit into
its “style.” Panelist Robert Samuel, a

players received national attention last Metro Toronto police officer and former

member of the national basketball team,

had harsh words for

Canada’s national basketball program.

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jadian justice mistakenly
soned men like Donald Marshall,
David Milgaard and Guy Paul Morin.
If the death penalty were law, they might

[who have shown up at readings],”
Wright responded.

Wright also thinks the program is
good for developing writers. “When I
was growing up,” she said, “I though
to be a writer was an exotic thing. I
think it would have helped if I had met
an ordinary person who was a writer.”

The Canadian Council dropped its
financial support of the Writer in
Residence programs across the country
several years ago. Not all post-
secondary institutions continue to offer
Writer in Residence programs.

Participants in the Writer in
Residence program give readings and
also answer writing-related questions in
one-on-one sessions with students.
Students are also encouraged to submit
their work to be read.

Suggestions for future Writers in
Residence may be submitted to Mary
Burns care of the DC English
Department.

 

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Would an equally skilled black
player have received this award?
Critics of Basketball Canada would

say no.

never have lived to see their convictions
overturned.

To those who applaud the growing
resurgence of right-wing notions of law
and order, it would be apt to consider a
quote by Dostoyevsky, who said that
“the level of civilization in a society can
be judged by entering its prisons.”

An international campaign is now

 

Panther sentenced to death

being waged in Jamal’s defence,
initiated by the Partisan Defence
Committee and supported by a number
of political and community
organizations and trade unions. More
than 40,000 people have signed
petitions or sent letters to the
Pennsylvania governor demanding that
Jamal not be executed.

Writer takes the mystery out of being an author

Open-mindedness proved successful in Writer in Residence program

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