Willy Kotiuga Snippet A

Power systems engineer Willy Kotiuga describes his latest endeavour – enrolling in a Master of Fine Arts program at Kings College Halifax – primarily to prevent his untold stories from getting lost. The intention is to educate the next generation, allowing them to learn primarily from his mistakes. He was surprised, after authoring many reports and documents, by how his Creative Nonfiction Writing course changed his outlook. He realized that, drawing material from his collection of 40 notebooks, he was creating a document that would not get buried and forgotten on a shelf but would instead inform his family, his colleagues. He realized that he needed primarily to describe himself – what drives his decisions.