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NANCY O'ROURKE
WRITER
Award Winning Writer
Nancy O'Rourke
Experienced sociologist Nancy O'Rourke's creative nonfiction has earned her awards with the Creative Nonfiction Collective (CNFC) and Dreamers Creative Nonfiction. In 2018, she won the CNFC award for her essay "Descent into Darkness" which was adapted from a memoir examining processes of forgiveness. In 2024, she won the Dreamers award for her essay “Arrival,” an account about arriving home in a foreign land.
★★★★★
"Descent into Darkness" by Nancy O'Rourke. Congratulations to Nancy. The winning piece is published in carte blanche, Vol 33.
I chose this well written entry because it took me to a place I knew nothing about. By focusing on something at the micro level (a machete), the author was able to reveal much about the macro level (the Rwanda genocide). - Betsy Warland
★★★★★
"Arrival” by Nancy O'Rourke
Forthcoming in Dreamers, Vol. 17, 2024
Other Achievements
“Bravado,” Nominated for a National Magazine Award by journal, Prairie Fire, 2023; Shortlisted – Surrey International Writers’ Conference Contest, 2019
“Arrival,” Honorable Mention – Globe Soup Short Memoir Contest, 2022; Shortlisted – Surrey International Writers’ Conference Contest, 2020; Shortlisted – Eden Mills Writers’ Festival Contest, 2019
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“To Breathe Again,” recognized as a Notable Essay by Memoir Magazine’s #MeToo contest, 2018
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