I remember the shaking leading up to when I delivered. The sign, my nurse said, that things were happening,...
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“I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.”
— James A. Michener
Will Come the Words: Sandra Shaw Homer’s creative space
March 5, 2014
Read the introduction to Will Come the Words: writers & their creative spaces. Originally from Philadelphia, SANDRA SHAW...
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Make the Judges Care: How to up your odds in a writing contest, by Anne Mahon
February 19, 2014
Writing contests are like speed-dating events: nervous writers with only minutes to make a lasting first impression, and...
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Writing Inspired by Art: enter your prose or poetry in OWC’s “Story Starters” competition
February 2, 2014
Click the following link to check out my photo chosen by the Ontario Writers' Conference for this month's "Story Starters"...
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Will Come the Words: Barbara Lambert’s creative space
January 27, 2014
Read the introduction to Will Come the Words: Writers & their creative spaces. BARBARA LAMBERT lives and writes...
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Vanishing Letters of War: What We Stand to Lose, an essay by Allison Howard
January 21, 2014
So what of now, in this age of abbreviated e-mails and text messages? I pondered this question when I shared...
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Will Come the Words: Ann Vanderhoof’s (floating) creative space
January 15, 2014
Read the intro to Will Come the Words: Writers & their creative spaces. ANN VANDERHOOF lives and writes...
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Poetry “resembles the graceful nature of dance; it is like a moving thought”: Conversation with poetry prize winner Natalia Darie
December 28, 2013
Natalia Darie's poem "Maroon" has won first prize in the 2013 Aspiring Canadian Poets Contest. Now in its second year,...
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Poets Are Always Aspiring: Shannon Bramer on judging the 2013 Aspiring Canadian Poets Contest
December 28, 2013
Coming up in my next post is an interview with Natalia Darie, first-prize winner in the 2013 Aspiring Canadian Poets Contest. Here's poet and...
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Oh, Christmas Tree: Six (Plus) Short Seasonal Stories
December 25, 2013
by Allison Howard, Barbara Lambert, Cheryl Andrews, Carin Makuz, Elizabeth Yeoman, and Allyson Latta (Click above links for their Christmas...
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Travelling to Write: Reflections aboard a Cargo Ship, an essay by Sandra Shaw Homer
December 4, 2013
In the roomy bottom drawer of my desk are three generations of travel journals, my grandmother’s, my mother’s,...
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Wordless Wednesday photo: 58
November 27, 2013
Each week on Wordless Wednesday, bloggers around the world post a photo they’ve taken that tells a story. If my...
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