Mayank Bhatt: Two stories published in anthologies
Former workshop participant Mayank Bhatt writes with news that two of his stories will be published within a few months of each other, one in the latest edition of TOK: Writing the New Toronto (Diaspora Dialogues), and the other in the second volume of Canadian Voices (BookLand Press). Here’s what Mayank has to say about his [...]
Thursday, September 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
Mary Judith Ress’s "Blood Flowers" honours sisters killed in 1980 in El Salvador
Mary Judith Ress is pleased to announce the publication of her novel Blood Flowers. Her publisher iUniverse has designated it an ”Editors’ Choice.” The book is available on Amazon.com and BarnesandNobel.com. Says Judy: “I have been writing this novel since 1983. It was inspired by the assassination of the four religious sisters in 1980 in El Salvador — especially by the [...]
Sunday, April 11th, 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
Tilya Gallay Helfield to be published in journal "carte blanche"
Tilya Gallay Helfield’s short memoir “Stars” will be published on-line in the November edition of the literary journal carte blanche on November 18, 2009 at www.carte-blanche.org. “Stars” is one of the chapters in a collection of creative nonfiction stories that she has been working on. Other short stories and essays written by Tilya have appeared in [...]
Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
Remembering Jane
Polish-born Jane Boruszewski, of Syracuse, NY, took part in several of my online courses through Ryerson University in Toronto between 2004 and 2006, sharing short memoirs and fictional stories based on her life experiences. She was enthusiastic about the writing process, and her sweet nature and determination to write inspiring and often beautiful stories about [...]
Monday, September 28th, 2009
