Myrna Kostash: Here
Myrna Kostash: Here was produced in collaboration between the Alberta Local and International Education Association (ALIEA), director Kalyna Somchynsky, and filmmakers Lindisfarne Productions. The short documentary celebrates renowned creative nonfiction writer Myrna Kostash’s extensive career and her dedication to exploring the complex relationships that shape our identities and the places we call home.
CBC Edmonton’s drive home show, Radio Active, with host Jessica Ng, interviewed Myrna June 10 2023. It had just been announced that Ghosts in a Photograph: A Chronicle was shortlisted for the nonfiction book award by the Book Publishers’ Association of Alberta.
Athabasca University Presentation
At the conclusion of her work as Athabasca University’s 2022-2023 writer-in-residence, Myrna gave a presentation, “The Pushkin Question Or: Shouldn’t You Be Reading Shevchenko?” in which she reflects on her changing relationship to Russian literature in a time of war. Watch it below.
Featured Symposium Event
From November 12, 2021 to January 21, 2022, the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies hosted a virtual conference, Reconciling Multiculturalism in Today’s Canada: the national dialogue on multiculturalism. On November 26 Myrna’s presentation was a Featured Symposium Event.
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NeWest Press Podcast
Myrna Kostash named Athabasca University’s 2022-23 Writer in Residence
Being edited for publication by Laurie Graham (herself a poet and the publisher of Brick) was almost as creative a process as was writing the original piece. Here’s our conversation, all about the first coup[e of sentences that we wrangled over.
November 19, 2019, as part of the University of Alberta’s Alumni Association series, The Educated Critic, Myrna spoke to a sold-out audience in the Wedgewood Room of the Fairmont Macdonald Hotel in Edmonton.She spoke about and read from her classic 2009 book, Reading the River: A Traveller’s Companion to the North Saskatchewan River.
My CBC /Ideas /documentary “Incident at Seven Oaks” is available on CBC Player
U of Alberta writers-in-residence interviews: Myrna Kostash
12 or 20 questions: with Myrna Kostash
The Doomed Genre: Myrna Kostash and The Limits of Non-fiction by Lisa Grekul
About Prodigal Daughter Interviewed by Paulette MacQuarrie at Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio:
Edited for broadcast version (Running time 15:45)
Full unedited version (Running time 29:10)
Interview with Roman Brytan
Prodigal Daughter
Before she moved back permanently to Alberta in 1975, Myrna had a summer job with the National Film Board as producer on the documentary, We’re Here to Stay, about a group of farm families in southern Saskatchewan who had pooled their resources in a farming cooperative.
National Film Board.