CATHERINE GILDINER is the author of three memoirs and a novel. Too Close to the Falls (1999) was a New...
Read More
“I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.”
— James A. Michener
“Each Step Through the Ice Is a Wish”: an essay by Pamela Dillon (published in the Globe and Mail, Facts & Arguments)
July 28, 2015
"These are my co-ordinates: 43°28’1.19”S 170°11’29.5”E. I stand at the landing zone atop the rough ice field of...
Read More
A Sense of Place: Mystica Writing & Yoga Retreat
July 22, 2015
Guest post by Sandra Shaw Homer The theme of this year’s writing retreat (a series of workshops --...
Read More
Heart-to-Hearts with Father on Russo-Finnish War Inform Liisa Kovala’s Family Memoir
July 15, 2015
Guest Post by Liisa Kovala I always knew my father had a story to tell. I’d heard snippets...
Read More
On Metaphors for Love: Interview with memoirist Tilya Gallay Helfield
June 10, 2015
Tilya Gallay Helfield launched her story collection, Metaphors for Love, last night at Holy Blossom Cultural Centre's new Salon...
Read More
I Know Why I’m Telling You This, an essay by Karen Matthews
June 3, 2015
Edmonton-based Karen Matthews and Judy Sillito are partners in Weasel Tale, a company that facilitates workshops on digital storytelling. I...
Read More
“Be Creative Yet Real”: The Malahat Review 2015 Constance Rooke Creative Nonfiction Prize
May 13, 2015
Polish up your best creative nonfiction story! The Malahat Review, one of Canada's premier literary magazines, runs an annual...
Read More
Santiago Writers: Fourteen years and three anthologies later, still going strong
May 6, 2015
In 2010, I was invited to teach memoir writing in residence at Los Parronales Writers' Retreat in Chile -- a...
Read More
12 Book Marketing Dos and Don’ts from Novelist Elinor Florence
April 28, 2015
Canadian career journalist ELINOR FLORENCE, who lives in the mountain resort town of Invermere, British Columbia, has written for daily...
Read More
Memoirist Cea Sunrise Person to be my guest for Memories into Story I (online, Spring 2015)
April 23, 2015
Cea Sunrise Person, author of the bestselling memoir North of Normal: A Memoir of My Wilderness Childhood, My Counterculture...
Read More
“And then one good sentence”: Interview with novelist Rebecca Silver Slayter
March 23, 2015
"Now I watch it go by like a passing train, each car in sequence: hesitation, uncertainty, self-doubt, total...
Read More
A Seven Treasures post by Sabrina Ramnanan
March 13, 2015
SABRINA RAMNANAN was born in Toronto to Trinidadian parents. She completed her BA in English and BEd at the University...
Read More