Truth in Memoir and Fiction: Getting the Story Right
Guest Post by Dace Mara Zacs In response to my question, author and speaker Antanas Sileika asked for a show of hands for the last book anyone had read. The room at the WCYR lunch meeting at Aurora Cultural Centre was filled to capacity. We’d all come to hear the artistic director of the Humber School [...]
Thursday, May 10th, 2012
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
Cheryl Andrews Gets Wicked … and Gets Published
Here’s what past workshop participant Cheryl Andrews has to say about her recent publishing credit: In May of this year the Writers’ Community of Durham Region launched Wicked Words, an anthology of best entries from their recent prose competition. The contest attracted more than 125 submissions from across Canada and around the world. Although my story didn’t [...]
Wednesday, September 29th, 2010
Memoirist Mary McIntyre’s poem accepted for publication
I fit my grandmother-sized brain into the head of an angry, frustrated teen. Why do that? you might ask. The exercise was in response to the Writers’ Circle of Durham Region’s broadcast email from Susie Berg of Pearson Educational Publishing. In the fall of 2009 the publisher was looking for poetry for their May/June edition of [...]
Friday, April 16th, 2010
Pay It Forward: Life Writers Ink success stories
Formed by an enthusiastic group of novice writers who came together through some of my online workshops, Life Writers Ink is a small group of women from a range of ages and backgrounds who meet regularly to encourage and critique one another’s creative writing endeavours. Several “Lifers,” as they’ve dubbed themselves, have met with success [...]
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
