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Jan 15

Will Come the Words: Ann Vanderhoof’s (floating) creative space

Read the intro to Will Come the Words: Writers & their creative spaces. ANN VANDERHOOF lives and writes in Toronto, Canada, and somewhere (everywhere) in the Caribbean. (more…)

January 15, 2014
Allyson Latta
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Will Come the Words: Writers & their creative spaces

Dec 28

Poetry “resembles the graceful nature of dance; it is like a moving thought”: Conversation with poetry prize winner Natalia Darie

Natalia Darie's poem "Maroon" has won first prize in the 2013 Aspiring Canadian Poets Contest. Now in its second year, this national poetry contest for previously unpublished writers was established by Heidi Stock, a poet herself. Heidi is president of Prospect Research Experts Inc., a grant research and writing firm... read more

December 28, 2013
Allyson Latta
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Interviews

Dec 28

Poets Are Always Aspiring: Shannon Bramer on judging the 2013 Aspiring Canadian Poets Contest

Coming up in my next post is an interview with Natalia Darie, first-prize winner in the 2013 Aspiring Canadian Poets Contest. Here's poet and mentor Shannon Bramer with thoughts on her role as judge and why Natalia's poem captured her imagination. ~ Allyson I was flattered and... read more

Dec 25

Oh, Christmas Tree: Six (Plus) Short Seasonal Stories

by Allison Howard, Barbara Lambert, Cheryl Andrews, Carin Makuz, Elizabeth Yeoman, and Allyson Latta (Click above links for their Christmas Wordless Wednesday photos.) The best-kept secret about my Wordless Wednesday photography group is that behind the scenes, the six of us aren't wordless... read more

December 25, 2013
Allyson Latta
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Guest Posts

Dec 04

Travelling to Write: Reflections aboard a Cargo Ship, an essay by Sandra Shaw Homer

In the roomy bottom drawer of my desk are three generations of travel journals, my grandmother’s, my mother’s, and mine. My grandmother’s are strictly reportorial: “Spent entire day in my room with diarrhea. Missed tour of Santa Maria Novella.” My mother’s style is livelier and more descriptive: “Went... read more

Nov 27

Wordless Wednesday photo: 58

Each week on Wordless Wednesday, bloggers around the world post a photo they’ve taken that tells a story. If my photo brings to mind a memory or inspires your creative writing, I hope you’ll share a comment below. (Click to enlarge.) ... read more

November 27, 2013
Allyson Latta
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Wordless Wednesday (Photographs / Writing Prompts)

Will Come the Words: Ann Vanderhoof’s (floating) creative space

Poetry “resembles the graceful nature of dance; it is like a moving thought”: Conversation with poetry prize winner Natalia Darie

Poets Are Always Aspiring: Shannon Bramer on judging the 2013 Aspiring Canadian Poets Contest

Oh, Christmas Tree: Six (Plus) Short Seasonal Stories

Travelling to Write: Reflections aboard a Cargo Ship, an essay by Sandra Shaw Homer

Wordless Wednesday photo: 58

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