Camille Pavlenko
The School of Creative Writing is pleased to congratulate Camille Pavlenko, MFA. Camille’s thesis is a novel entitled Fata Morgana.
Camille Pavlenko is a theatre and literary artist who is passionate about contributing to the arts ecology of the Canadian prairies, where she works as a writer, actor, and playwright. She has been the playwright-in-residence at Alberta Theatre Projects, Alberta Musical Theatre Company, and Quest Theatre. Her short story “Georgie Millionaire“, was awarded the first place prize in ROOM Magazine’s Fiction Contest and she is a proud two-time recipient of the Shevchenko Foundation’s Short Prose Prize for her stories “The Cure for Breathlessness” and “Kuzmenko Residence“, all of which were written during her MFA.
Set at the tail end of the Age of Sail, Fata Morgana concerns the events following the discovery of a group of female castaways in the middle of the South Pacific. This historical fiction novel investigates the inner workings of class, gender, and sexuality on board an 18th century barque. Featuring a carousel of often-irreverent points-of-view, including those of the non-human witnesses aboard HMS Inspiration, this thesis novel follows exceptionally adequate midshipman, Davy Bly, as he pursues an increasingly desperate path to officer-hood, in the middle of a rapidly-unravelling naval hierarchy, 10,000KM from home.
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