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NANCY O'ROURKE
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Award Winning Writer
Nancy O'Rourke
Experienced sociologist Nancy O'Rourke's creative nonfiction has earned her several awards. In 2018, she won the Creative Nonfiction Collective award for her essay "Descent into Darkness," which was adapted from a memoir examining processes of forgiveness. In 2024, she won the Dreamers Creative Writing award for her essay “Arrival,” an account about arriving home in a foreign land. And, in 2025, she won the Catherine B. Fogarty award for What the Heart Remembers When the Brain Forgets (from a memoir-in-progress and best final project with the University of Toronto SCS Creative Writing program, 2025).
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"Descent into Darkness" by Nancy O'Rourke. Congratulations to Nancy. The winning piece is published in carte blanche, Vol 33.
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"Arrival” by Nancy O'Rourke
in Dreamers, Vol. 17, 2024
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What the Heart Remembers When the Brain Forgets -- memoir-in-progress and Final Project with the University of Toronto SCS Creative Writing program, winner of the Catherine B. Fogarty award.
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