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
Finding Voice in Memoir: My Father’s Final Gift to Me
by Dace Mara Zacs, Guest Blogger A brief exchange over long-distance telephone one night: “Dace, your pappy is dead. You come to Latvia of course.” “Ja, of course,” I said to Aivar, my cousin. “I’m coming.” This was not entirely unexpected. Before my father left on his holiday to Latvia, I’d begged him to assure [...]
Friday, October 1st, 2010
Tilya Helfield: Short stories, a witty blog, and a memoir seeking a publisher
Former workshop participant Tilya Helfield recently learned that her short memoir “Blink” has been selected by Imago Press publisher and anthology editor Leila Joiner to appear in OASIS Journal 2010, a collection of prose and poetry by writers over age 50. Stories to be published are also finalists in the OASIS Journal writing competition, winners of which [...]
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
Jane Boruszewski Based Novel "Escape from Russia" on Her Memoirs
Escape from Russia, a dramatic and inspirational memoir-based novel by Jane Boruszewski of Syracuse, New York, has been published by Pennywyse Press, and is now available on Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com. This announcement is a bittersweet one, because Jane did not live to see her book in print. Sadly, she passed away on August 1, 2009, [...]
Wednesday, March 31st, 2010
Workshopper Dolores Kivi’s short memoir to be published
Dolores Kivi of Thunder Bay, Ontario, sends exciting news that her short memoir titled “Until Death Do Us Part” (title may change) has been accepted for publication in The Globe and Mail ‘s “Facts and Arguments” section in time for Valentine’s Day 2009. It’s scheduled to appear Friday, February 13. The piece traces Dolores’s relationship [...]
Thursday, February 5th, 2009
