BC author, 94, publishes 2nd novel based on memoirs
Announcement by Arleigh Fanning Kory Shillam has always been a writer. Daughter of William Albert Tutte, the front page editor of the Vancouver Sun during the Second World War, she came by her love of the written word honestly. As one of her six daughters, I have many memories of my mum taking courses and sitting at [...]
Monday, February 13th, 2012
On the Air: Voicing My Memoir for CBC Radio’s “The Sunday Edition”
Guest post by Tilya Gallay Helfield “I kept thinking of the movie The King’s Speech and worried I might develop a stutter. . . .” I was thrilled when I received the first e-mail from Karen Levine, editor of CBC Radio One’s The Sunday Edition, on November 21st, telling me that there was a lot she [...]
Thursday, February 9th, 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
Memoir of Growing Up Black in 1950s: 1st Runner-up
Toronto-based writer Lynette Dathorne’s story “Scenes from My Youth,” an excerpt from her memoir-in-progress, has been named first runner-up in the Nonfiction category of the annual OASIS Journal anthology competition in Tucson, Arizona. “Scenes from My Youth” will be Lynette’s first published story. “The year was 1953,” she says, “and the focus of my submission was [...]
Monday, September 26th, 2011
CBC’s Canada Writes Autobiography Challenge
A compelling title and back-cover blurb for a real memoir-in-progress by Mary E. McIntyre is featured as one of Today’s Picks in the entertaining CBC Canada Writes Autobiography Challenge. Read her submission here. Mary’s surprised and delighted that her entry is being highlighted. Along with other entrants, she’s in the running for the prize: an iPad2. The Canada Writes Autobiography [...]
Saturday, August 27th, 2011
Writing in My Father’s Voice: Honouring His Wartime Experience (Part 2 of 2)
Guest Post by Barbara Trendos My idea of writing a mock journal turned out to be not so far beyond the realm of possibility. The Canadian YMCA had distributed log books, like the one Johnny kept, to help Canadian PoWs fill time, cope, and record the day-to-day routine of an utterly un-routine life experience. Dad [...]
Saturday, May 28th, 2011
