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 the likes of Margaret Atwood and Dennis Lee.
Read Mary’s earlier blog post about the thrill of receiving her first copy of Live Lines.
To view the first 21 pages of this colourful text, click here. To order copies of Live Lines Student Handbooks at $14.95: toll-free tel. 1-800-361-6128 or toll-free fax 1-800-563-9196
In addition, Mary’s moving memoir “Love Letters” has been published in the anthology Saying Goodbye (2010, Dream of Things). She’s honoured that her story was selected as one of four to have an excerpt posted on the collection’s Facebook page, as well as on the publisher’s site here.
Find out more about Saying Goodbye here. Purchase the anthology directly from the publisher at GoodbyeBook.com or DreamOfThings.com. It’s also available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble and through local bookstores.
- Mary E. McIntyre at Otter Lake Writers’ Retreat, September 2010
