Winnipeg, MB – The Winnipeg Public Library is pleased to announce that Nora Decter is its new Writer-in-Residence for 2024-2025 and will be available for consultations beginning October 1, 2024.
Nora Decter is a writer and educator living on Treaty 1 Territory. After growing up in the North End of Winnipeg, she studied writing at York University and Stony Brook University before returning home as an instructor at the University of Winnipeg. Nora is the author of the young adult novel How Far We Go and How Fast, winner of the 2019 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize in literary fiction. What’s Not Mine, her debut adult novel, is a darkly funny exploration of addiction and inheritance against the backdrop of the fentanyl crisis.
“There is so much I am looking forward to about my time as Writer-in-Residence” said Decter. “From leading workshops designed to help writers access new ideas, to getting to work on my next Winnipeg-set novel in the very place where I first dreamt of being a writer as a kid, and maybe most of all, working with Manitoba writers in my role as mentor.”
The Writer-in-Residence provides free consultation by email, phone, and online with emerging and established Manitoba writers of all genres. Manuscripts for review can be submitted by email or by mail. Visit winnipeg.ca/writerinresidence for complete submission guidelines.
Decter’s term as Writer-in-Residence at the Winnipeg Public Library runs until April 30, 2025.
The Writer-in-Residence program is funded by the City of Winnipeg, the Winnipeg Public Library Board, the Friends of the Winnipeg Public Library, and Manitoba Sport, Culture, Heritage and Tourism.