Jack Hodgins was raised in Merville and attended Tsolum School and UBC. Until recently, he taught fiction writing at the University of Victoria. His dozen novels and story collections include: Spit Delaney's Island, The Invention of the World, Innocent Cities, Broken Ground, Distance, and Damage Done by the Storm. A Passion for Narrative (a guide to writing fiction) is used in classrooms and writing groups across Canada and Australia. Hodgins' fiction has won the Governor General's Award, the Canada-Australia Prize, and the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, amongst others. He has given readings, talks, or workshops in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and several European countries, and has taught an annual fiction workshop in Mallorca, Spain. In 2006 he won both the Terasen Lifetime Achievement Award and the Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence in British Columbia. He and his wife Dianne have three grown children and three grandchildren. For more information go to www.jackhodgins.ca.
Events featuring Jack Hodgins:
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1.Writer-In-Residence (A Workshop for Writers of Narrative) 9:30 am – 12:30 pm Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the Arts Centre. Please Note: THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT.
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2.Literary Cabaret (Urban, Suburban, Rural with host Sheryl MacKay, also featuring Elizabeth Bachinsky, Jen Sookfong Lee and Howard White.) 7:30 pm Friday, July 18 at the Community Hall.
