Oct
01
by Dace Mara Zacs, Guest Blogger On the day of the funeral, I leave Jumprava for Balvi, a small city in rural Latgale, just this side of the Russian border. This is my father’s birthplace and burial site. His casket lies open beside the gaping hole in the earth. The...
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Sep
29
Here's what past workshop participant Cheryl Andrews has to say about her recent publishing credit: In May of this year the Writers’ Community of Durham Region launched Wicked Words, an anthology of best entries from their recent prose competition. The contest attracted more than 125 submissions from across Canada and around the...
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Sep
04
by Ruth Zaryski Jackson, Guest Blogger In my family, no one ever talked about my maternal grandfather. I always thought he’d died before I was born. I learned not to ask questions, until one day when I was about fifteen my mother received a call and I overheard her end...
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Sep
02
Former workshop participant Tilya Helfield recently learned that her short memoir “Blink” has been selected by Imago Press publisher and anthology editor Leila Joiner to appear in OASIS Journal 2010, a collection of prose and poetry by writers over age...
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Sep
02
Former workshop participant Mayank Bhatt writes with news that two of his stories will be published within a few months of each other, one in the latest edition of TOK: Writing the New Toronto (Diaspora Dialogues), and the other in the second volume of Canadian Voices (BookLand Press). Here's what Mayank...
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Aug
23
“Slow down, you move too fast, gotta make the morning last. Just kickin’ down the cobblestones, looking for fun and feelin’ groovy.” “Feeling Groovy (59th Street Bridge Song),” by Simon and Garfunkel If you want to remember more of your past, slow down in the present. (more…)
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