Sep
26
This just in. Award-winning Canadian author William Deverell will be the featured speaker at my upcoming writers' retreat: Namaste Gardens Writing & Yoga Retreat in Playa Herradura, Costa Rica, January 21 to 30, 2012....
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Aug
29
Profile: Travel Writer Erin Van Rheenen Erin Van Rheenen has done an impressive amount of globe-trotting and living abroad, and writing about both—especially for someone who says her earliest travel memory mostly involved crying....
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Aug
27
A compelling title and back-cover blurb for a real memoir-in-progress by Mary E. McIntyre is featured as one of Today's Picks in the entertaining CBC Canada Writes Autobiography Challenge. Read her submission here. Mary's surprised and delighted that her entry is being highlighted. Along with other entrants, she's in the running for the prize: an...
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Aug
19
Read Part 1 of this interview. Twice Beth has been guest author for my University of Toronto, School of Continuing Studies online course Memories into Story: Introduction to Life Writing, and I edited her memoir Edge Seasons (Knopf Canada, 2005). The following are questions some of my students asked Beth...
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Aug
15
Three creativity-sparking writing courses are the latest additions to the program at Koffler Centre of the Arts this fall. The Centre has called its range of classes for all ages in painting, drawing, ceramics, music and dance—65 in all—“Toronto’s best-kept secret.” But that’s changing, and the expansion of its Literary Program,...
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Aug
09
“Don't ever prejudge yourself or the possible outcome of what you are going to do.... You might start writing something, and it twists and turns, and you...
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