Young dancer turns experience into story for anthology
Emily Finkelstein’s short story “Adage,” based on her experiences as a dance student, has been accepted for publication in Writings: Volume 2, the 2010 anthology of the Canadian Authors Association (Montreal Branch). It focuses on a young dancer’s struggle to reconcile the opposing values of her family and her ballet master. “Adage” is an excerpt [...]
Saturday, December 11th, 2010
“Nearly” — a poem by Jan M. Csillag
Jan M. Csillag has lived part of her adult life in England and part in Toronto. She has taught children in the early grades to read, enjoy books and write stories. As a teacher she was able to combine her love of storytelling, writing and illustrating. She enjoys painting, sketching, reading, writing and travelling with [...]
Friday, December 10th, 2010
Mary E. McIntyre Sees Poem & Short Memoir Published
Stouffville-based writer Mary E. McIntyre recently added a short memoir as well as a poem to her growing list of publication credits. “Ugly Like a Scar,” a poem on the topic of teens in family conflict, appears in Live Lines (2010, Pearson Canada), a grade 9/10 textbook. It shares the book’s pages with poetry by the likes of Margaret Atwood [...]
Thursday, December 2nd, 2010
Memoir Writing: The Muse and the Music
by Ann C. Walker, Guest Blogger I had known since spring of this year that the 100th anniversary of the founding of my high school band was coming up. Information and registration forms were sent months in advance, from Wisconsin, USA, to my home in Santiago, Chile, asking me, as a former band member, to [...]
Thursday, December 2nd, 2010
Tilya Gallay Helfield’s memoir “Blink” garners prize
Tilya Helfield of Toronto, Canada, recently earned first prize in the non-fiction category of the 2010 OASIS Journal competition for her short memoir “Blink.” Tilya’s story will appear in the most recent edition of OASIS Journal, an annual anthology that showcases creative writing by international writers age 50 and over. It’s published by Tucson, Arizona-based Imago [...]
Thursday, November 11th, 2010
Writing Memoir: You Are in the Room with Me
by Adrian the Elder, Guest Blogger I love to record everything I see, and the method I chose for most of my life was photography. It never occurred to me then, not even for a moment, to write anything down. Why bother doing that when all I had to do was take a photo? No [...]
Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010
