The Best Ideas Always Come from the Act of Writing
TAKE-5 Interview with Author and Poet Dan Gilmore by Allyson Latta DAN GILMORE has published a novel, A Howl for Mayflower (Imago Press, 2006), and two collections of stories and poems,Season Tickets (Pima Press, 2003), and Love Takes a Bow (Imago Press, 2010). He has received awards from the Raymond Carver Fiction Contest, the Martindale Fiction Contest, and Sandscript. [...]
Wednesday, June 29th, 2011
“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
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
