Spring Publishing News: Writing on Skirtboarders, Seder, Songs, Shame and More
Here’s a spring roundup of recent publishing and writing-competition news from my former students and workshop participants, along with details of a new contest for poets (see HEIDI STOCK, below). I share these success stories here to celebrate these writers’ accomplishments and also to encourage other emerging writers. The opportunities to reach a reading audience through memoirs and other [...]
Friday, April 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, producer of CBC Radio One’s The Sunday Edition, on November 21st, telling me that there was a lot she liked [...]
Thursday, February 9th, 2012
AllysonLatta.ca wins Irresistibly Sweet Blog Award
Tobin Elliott over at Left to Write has put a little grin on my face by honouring me with an Irresistibly Sweet Blog Award. I met Tobin at the Ontario Writers’ Conference where I was involved in a Roundtable on Self-Publishing. One of my students, Mary McIntyre, who had taken a course from Tobin years ago [...]
Thursday, June 2nd, 2011
Tilya Gallay Helfield’s memoir “Blink” garners prize
Tilya Helfield of Toronto, Canada, recently earned first prize in the non-fiction category of the 2010 OASIS Journal competition for her short memoir “Blink.” Tilya’s story will appear in the most recent edition of OASIS Journal, an annual anthology that showcases creative writing by international writers age 50 and over. It’s published by Tucson, Arizona-based Imago [...]
Thursday, November 11th, 2010
