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
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
Writing in My Father’s Voice: Honouring His Wartime Experience (Part 1 of 2)
Guest Post by Barbara Trendos It was one night over thirty years ago when Dad first brought out that plain, beat-up file folder. Although I can’t recall what prompted him to do so, I clearly remember sitting on the shag carpet at the foot of his easy chair in front of the fireplace in our family [...]
Wednesday, May 25th, 2011
