Dec
10
Jan M. Csillag has lived part of her adult life in England and part in Toronto. She has taught children in the early grades to read, enjoy books and write stories. As a teacher she was able to combine her love of storytelling, writing and illustrating. She enjoys painting, sketching,...
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Dec
02
Stouffville-based writer Mary E. McIntyre recently added a short memoir as well as a poem to her growing list of publication credits. “Ugly Like a Scar," a poem on the topic of teens in family conflict, appears in Live Lines (2010, Pearson Canada), a grade 9/10 textbook. It shares the book's pages with poetry by...
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Dec
02
Guest Post by Ann C. Walker I had known since spring of this year that the 100th anniversary of the founding of my high school band was coming up. Information and registration forms were sent months in advance, from Wisconsin, USA, to my home in Santiago, Chile, asking me, as...
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Nov
11
Tilya Helfield of Toronto, Canada, recently earned first prize in the non-fiction category of the 2010 OASIS Journal competition for her short memoir “Blink.” Tilya's story will appear in the most recent edition of OASIS Journal, an annual anthology that showcases creative writing by international writers age 50 and over. It's...
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Nov
02
by Adrian the Elder, Guest Blogger I love to record everything I see, and the method I chose for most of my life was photography. It never occurred to me then, not even for a moment, to write anything down. Why bother doing that when all I had to do...
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Oct
18
Ellen Hawkins, a Canadian author residing in Santiago, Chile, announces the publication of her memoir Djinxed. Ellen participated in my workshop series at Los Parronales Writers' Retreat in Santiago, in February 2010. Here, in her own words, is some intriguing background on her book: When my husband and I and our two small children arrived in...
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