Mar
10
AMIR BRANDON was the first-prize winner in last year's Singer-Songwriter Mentor Experience. He has now completed his mentoring with multiple Juno Award−winning, Canadian singer-songwriter Luba and industry mentoring from contest judges Luther Mallory and Theo Tams. I interviewed him about his creative process, career aspirations, and advice for other aspiring...
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Feb
25
"... a family without secrets is rare indeed. People who live in families make every effort to keep certain things concealed from the rest of the world, and at times from each other as well. Things will be lied about, or simply never mentioned. Sometimes family secrets are so deeply...
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Feb
04
In every memoir and personal essay class I teach, one anxiety-arousing subject always comes up: How can I be sure this is true? Students ask the question. They worry about what they can’t remember and they wonder if what they do remember is accurate. What, they ask, if my...
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Jan
21
I believe one of the great privileges of being a writer is that there is a use -- the possibility of a productive end -- for everything you encounter. Life is so full that every day we witness great beauty or...
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Jan
07
Happy new year, writers! There are still a couple of spots open in my online critique course Memories into Story II: Life Writing, offered through University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies. The fun begins Monday, January 12, and runs for...
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Dec
29
From the Archives The Occupied Garden, co-written with my sister Tracy Kasaboski, tells the story of our grandparents during the Second World War in Holland. Opa was a market gardener, and grew vegetables on a huge property near the Hague -- thank god,...
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