Background
Hodgins, Jack Stanley was born on October 3, 1938 in Comox Valley, Vancouver Island, B.C., Canada. Son of Stanley H. and Reta A. (Blakely) Hodgins.
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Over Forty in Broken Hill : Unusual Encounters in the Australian Outback
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A Passion for Narrative: A Guide for Writing Fiction by Jack Hodgins (1994-05-03)
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Over Forty in Broken Hill: Unusual Encounters Outback & Beyond (Uqp Paperbacks)
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A Passion for Narrative: A Guide to Writing Fiction - Revised Edition
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This book is not intended to persuade you to take up writing novels or short stories – “It’s going to be a lot of work,” Jack Hodgins warns. Nor will it tell you how to market your stories. But it will take you through the problems facing any fiction writer and show you how some of the best writers in English have solved them. The chapters are clear and comprehensive: Finding Your Own Stories; One Good Sentence After Another – on the skills of writing well; Setting; Character – how to make your characters come alive; Plot; Structure – “The Architecture of Story”; Point of View and Voice; Metaphors, Symbols and Allusions; Revising – an all-important chapter that also deals with the impact of writing on a computer; The Story of a Story – where Jack Hodgins talks of his own experience with one of his most famous stories; and the final chapter, And Now What? – Creating Your Own Workshop, which builds on the fact that every chapter in the book contains writing exercises to help you work away at home at “the mysterious business of writing fiction.” As an award-winning novelist and short-story writer Jack Hodgins is uniquely qualified to preach what he practises. As a trained teacher, he has been giving creative lessons for thirty years, at high schools and universities and to writers’ summer schools. In recent years his creative writing courses at the University of Victoria have become discreetly famous. Now, anyone who buys this book can share in the experience of learning fiction-writing from a master. With its scores of examples of first-class writing this lively, truly fascinating book will almost certainly make you be atter writer; it is guaranteed to make you a better reader.
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The Macken Charm
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It is the summer of 1956, and although Rusty Macken is eager to leave rural Vancouver Island – and his family – for university, the events of Glory’s funeral will not make it easy. Over the course of a single day, the rambunctious Macken clan gathers at the site of the burned-down seaside hotel that was once the family base to mourn and remember the glamorous city girl who married the wildest Macken of all but never quite adapted to their country ways. By the time the sun comes up on the following day, Rusty may have participated in something of a miracle. At the very least, he will have been forced to confront the uneasy secrets of his own heart. Compassionate, hilarious, and wise, The Macken Charm brilliantly captures the joys, the frustrations, and the rich human drama of family life.
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The Barclay Family Theatre
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Fiction. With THE BARCLAY FAMILY THEATRE, his second collection of short stories, Jack Hodgins introduces us to a cast of characters who transform the everyday world of Vancouver Island into a wondrous world of human warmth and comic energy. There is Barclay Desmond, caught between the ambitions of his mother, who wants him to become a concert pianist, and his father who wants him to follow in his steps as a logger. There is Mr. Pernouski, a real estate agent and the fattest man to ride a B.C. ferry, who believes he can offer his clients their heart's desire. Hodgins also takes us abroad to Ireland and Japan to watch as his people attempt to reinvent themselves in new theaters of action. Through it all, Hodgins depicts his people struggling to centre themselves as their world rocks them into new and unforeseen directions.
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A Passion for Narrative: A Guide to Writing Fiction - Revised Edition by Jack Hodgins (2001-01-18)
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Innocent Cities
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The Honorary Patron
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The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne or a Word or Two on Those Port Annie Miracles
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Fiction. In this new edition of Jack Hodgins' Governor General-winning novel (for 1979), the reader is taken into the everyday eccentricities of life in Port Annie on the west coast of Vancouver Island, a town that keeps slipping into the ocean and whose people have long been in a continuous slumber. Everything changes, however, when a beautiful sea nymph is washed ashore from a stranded freighter. People begin grasping at new possibilities. There's the giant cactus the mayor installs to attract the tourist trade, the personal life of Jenny Chambers, ex-stripper, is exposed, and the Kick-and-Kill beer parlor becomes home to wild events. But there is also Joseph Bourne himself, once a world-renowned poet and healer, who has become a bitter recluse. Bourne knows that the endless rain is going to bring a landslide down on the town, and he fears that the mysterious woman has come looking for him. In the end he dies and is resurrected—an experience that allows him to regain his healing powers so that he can work his magic on the townsfolk. With his energetic style and his comic characterization, Hodgins combines the ordinary with the wondrous.
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Jack Stanley Hodgins
Edit ProfileEducation
Bachelor of Education, U. B.C., 1961; D Little, U. B.C., 1995.
Career
Teacher high school English and creative writing, Nanaimo, B.C., 1961-1979. Teacher workshops, consultant and speaker in field, since 1976. Writer-in-residence Simon Fraser U., Vancouver, 1977, U. Ottawa (Ontario), 1979.
Professor.U. Victoria.
Achievements
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The Macken Charm
(It is the summer of 1956, and although Rusty Macken is ea...)
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A Passion for Narrative: A Guide to Writing Fiction - Revised Edition
(This book is not intended to persuade you to take up writ...)
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A Passion for Narrative: A Guide to Writing Fiction - Revised Edition by Jack Hodgins (2001-01-18)
(Will be shipped from US. Used books may not include compa...)
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The Barclay Family Theatre
(Fiction. With THE BARCLAY FAMILY THEATRE, his second coll...)
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The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne or a Word or Two on Those Port Annie Miracles
(Fiction. In this new edition of Jack Hodgins' Governor Ge...)
- The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne (New Canadian Library Series)
- Over Forty in Broken Hill : Unusual Encounters in the Australian Outback
- A Passion for Narrative: A Guide for Writing Fiction by Jack Hodgins (1994-05-03)
- Over Forty in Broken Hill: Unusual Encounters Outback & Beyond (Uqp Paperbacks)
- Innocent Cities
- The Honorary Patron
- (A Passion for Narrative: A Guide for Writing Fiction) Author: Jack Hodgins published on (April, 2001)
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The Macken Charm
Membership
Member Writers Union Canada, Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association.
Connections
Married Dianne Child, December 17, 1960. Children: Shannon, Gavin, Tyler.
