Okay, this is too freaky. I haven’t been in a parade since I was six, dressed up as a purple crepe paper flower on a garden float in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. It rained and I came home wet and stained…
Update on how-my-friends-are-all-doing-better-than-me. I mean “I.”
Aside from the fact that ‘doing better than I’ sounds just too pompous to write, I intend to write a grammatically correct and very important post. This is fuelled by a) jealousy and b) the desire to name drop. Oh,…
Harvard Summer School – not your average summer vacation
It’s not often you have someone who REALLY hates your writing in a workshop, but it can happen. It happened to me at Harvard Summer School so many years ago. I think I’d blanked it out, but when my Harvard…
Ouch! Slammed in the media
I was going to write a post called Slammed, swindled and stupid – a great start to 2012, but then decided that I would stick with Slammed, since my swindle event and my stupid event are still a bit raw,…
Banff Centre Literary Journalism comes to an end
Say it’s not so! I don’t want to leave the Banff Centre. How can this be the last day? Yesterday, most of our group in the Literary Journalism Program went for a final hike. There were 15 of us, including 3-month…
Shades of Banff past
I’ve been in Banff for 6 days now and here’s what I’ve learned. I’m a crappy writer. I can’t write under pressure. I’ve forgotten my cord to connect my camera to my computer so I can’t post any new pictures…
The travel writing posse strikes again
So many things are happening in the Toronto travel-writing world that I don’t know where to begin. So I’ll start where all good things begin … with rejection. Yes, I just got rejected by the Ontario Arts Council for a…
Here’s a question for you …
The writing contest at We Book takes a turn for the strange when this writer enters the first page of her nonfiction book to be judged.
Win win win! Writing contests galore
Three different writing contests offer something for writers of every genre.
Writing the first chapter of a memoir
The new year is the perfect time for a new start and a new first chapter for a memoir