May
13
Polish up your best creative nonfiction story! The Malahat Review, one of Canada's premier literary magazines, runs an annual creative nonfiction contest to honour former editor Constance Rooke (1942−2008). The competition runs until August 1, 2015, and accepts submissions from Canada, the United States, and overseas. The prize of...
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May
06
In 2010, I was invited to teach memoir writing in residence at Los Parronales Writers' Retreat in Chile -- a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. The two-week retreat was organized by Susan Siddeley, a Canadian writer who had participated in one of my workshop series at North York Central Library. Susan and her...
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Apr
28
Canadian career journalist ELINOR FLORENCE, who lives in the mountain resort town of Invermere, British Columbia, has written for daily newspapers and magazines including Reader’s Digest. Her first historical novel, Bird’s Eye View, was published by Dundurn Press of Toronto (October 2014). Months before her book was released, Elinor began...
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Apr
23
Cea Sunrise Person, author of the bestselling memoir North of Normal: A Memoir of My Wilderness Childhood, My Counterculture Family, and How I Survived Both (HarperCollins Canada, 2015), will be guest author for the upcoming session of my online course Memories into Story I: Life Writing, offered by the University...
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Mar
23
"Now I watch it go by like a passing train, each car in sequence: hesitation, uncertainty, self-doubt, total panic, questioning of self-worth, and regretting of every act I’ve undertaken during my time on earth … and then one good sentence. And...
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Mar
13
SABRINA RAMNANAN was born in Toronto to Trinidadian parents. She completed her BA in English and BEd at the University of Toronto. Sabrina is also a recent graduate of University of Toronto’s School of Continuing Studies Creative Writing Program and the recipient of the...
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