The Pain and Joy of Self-Telling: Virginia Woolf
Guest post by Kyo Maclear I thought … last night, something very profound about the synthesis of my being: how only writing composes it: how nothing makes a whole unless I am writing … —Virginia Woolf 1. In 1941, on this day, March 28, Virginia Woolf put on her overcoat, filled its pockets with stones, [...]
Wednesday, March 28th, 2012
“Self” Matters: Thoughts on Immersion Writing
Guest post by Robin Hemley “Immersion writing engages the writer in the here and now in a journalistic sense, shaping and creating a story happening in the present while unabashedly lugging along all that baggage that makes up the writer’s personality: his or her memories, culture, and opinions.” — from A Field Guide for Immersion Writing: [...]
Saturday, March 24th, 2012
Reviving Mary Ann: sisters follow clues to bring the past to life on the page
Guest post by Kristen den Hartog “. . . little by little, the ghosts take shape.” My sister Tracy Kasaboski and I wrote a book together called The Occupied Garden, about our father’s family in Holland during the Second World War and their subsequent move to Canada. Being a collaboration and a work of non-fiction, [...]
Saturday, March 10th, 2012
Writing from the Heart
Guest Post by Sandra Shaw Homer Sandra was a guest speaker at my Namaste Gardens Writing & Yoga Retreat in Costa Rica I’ve known I wanted to be a writer ever since I wrote a two-page autobiography at the age of nine. This received lavish praise, of course, but what was interesting about it was [...]
Tuesday, January 31st, 2012
Writing “Home First: A Memoir in Voices”
Guest Post by Susan Siddeley I love writing: fashioning sentences, crafting a tale, getting feedback. A nightmare for me is to be stranded in a queue with no pen or paper, where nothing is moving, yet life suddenly makes sense. Backing sixpenny notebooks with brown paper and scribbling about blackbirds, bluebells, and earwigs when I [...]
Friday, November 4th, 2011
“The Boy in the Moon”: Love Letter to a Son, Voice for the Disabled
Guest Post by Mary E. McIntyre Twenty-one years ago, my brother and his wife had twin sons with cerebral palsy. The son who was more severely affected died at 17 years, of complications from his disability. The remaining twin is wheelchair bound, unable to look after his physical needs. Though he can talk slowly and [...]
Thursday, October 20th, 2011
