Oct
01
I'm pleased to announce here the talented winners of the 2nd annual Aspiring Canadian Poets Contest: 1st prize: Natalia Darie 2nd prize: Whitney Sweet 3rd prize: Bria Lubiens Contest judge Shannon Bramer selected the winning entries and will mentor these promising poets, who will split $1,000 in prize money toward online...
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Sep
25
Pat Irwin Lycett is a former creative writing student of mine. In fact, she participated in one of my first memoir writing workshop series for North York Central Library, seven years ago, and has followed my website and kept in touch. Her beautiful Seven Treasures post below ventures a little beyond the series' usual form...
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Sep
12
Guest post by Robert Kershaw Retreats for staff of the Center for Digital Storytelling happen twice a year, and are a chance for us to get together so we can talk about the work we do and explore ways we can do it...
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Aug
28
The Seven Treasures series is back by popular demand, with this guest post by Janis McCallen. As a young girl, JANIS MCCALLEN began writing about her life in small diaries -- the kind with a little brass lock and key. At eleven she wrote her first novel on a Royal portable...
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Aug
21
Alexandra Leggat delighted participants as guest speaker at my Turquoise Waters Writers' Retreat in the Kawartha Lakes, July 29 to August 2, 2013. Her passion for writing was palpable and her advice to writers encouraging and motivating. This is Part 2...
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Aug
14
The small white truck was parked on the sidewalk of a busy Toronto street. Two wooden bushel baskets of fresh greens sat beside it. An elderly gentleman appeared to be fastening a gap on the industrial chain link fence that surrounded a vacant lot. The lot was overgrown with weeds,...
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