Feb
03
Guest post by Alexandra Risen I haven't been a debut writer forever. It just feels that way. Likely because of how often I revise-restructure-rewrite-rethink-reword-reassess-review. Enough times to learn one thing: Even if you are writing memoir, the truth can be said myriad...
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Jan
27
Inspired by a line from novelist Lydia Millet -- “We live in what we leave behind” -- Steve Rotschild began writing his memoir, Traces of What Was, at the age of 70. It was 2003, and he had realized he was the only one who knew the full story of...
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Jan
20
SANDRA SHAW HOMER was a guest speaker at my first Costa Rica writers' retreat (2012) and a co-organizer for my second (2015). I can’t imagine why my father picked up a copy of La Nación, because he couldn’t read a word of Spanish. But serendipitously he happened upon a...
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Jan
06
Watch the book trailer for North of Normal: Read also Part 1 of Cea's thought-provoking interview. As you wrote about your personal experiences in North of Normal, did you struggle to deliver the most truthful version of events? Have others ever disagreed with your recountings? I have struggled,...
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Dec
30
News: Plum Johnson will be my guest for the Winter session of Memories into Story: Life Writing II (online advanced workshop), at University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies. She's the author of the bestselling and RBC Taylor Prize–winning memoir They Left Us Everything and a former student in Memories...
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Nov
25
During November, the month of Remembrance, we read and watch many interviews with veterans. Sadly, our Canadian veterans are vanishing at the rate of about fifty each day. Author Elinor Florence has interviewed...
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