Swirl & Swing: A Writing Blog

“I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.”
— James A. Michener

Writing from the Heart: Interview with prize-winning singer-songwriter Amir Brandon

March 10, 2015
AMIR BRANDON was the first-prize winner in last year's Singer-Songwriter Mentor Experience. He has now completed his mentoring with multiple...
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Annette Kuhn on Family Secrets in Memoir

February 25, 2015
"... a family without secrets is rare indeed. People who live in families make every effort to keep certain things...
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Memoir and the Art of Memory by Amy Friedman

February 4, 2015
  In every memoir and personal essay class I teach, one anxiety-arousing subject always comes up: How can I be...
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Author Rebecca Silver Slayter on Why “Nothing Is Lost”

Author Rebecca Silver Slayter on Why “Nothing Is Lost”

January 21, 2015
    I believe one of the great privileges of being a writer is that there is a use --...
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Join Me for Memories into Story II (online), Starting January 12

January 7, 2015
Happy new year, writers! There are still a couple of spots open in my online critique course Memories into Story...
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Finding the Shape of the Story by Kristen den Hartog

December 29, 2014
From the Archives  The Occupied Garden, co-written with my sister Tracy Kasaboski, tells the story of our grandparents during the...
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Eric Gainer’s Memories of His Artisan Father Published in Globe and Mail Facts & Arguments

December 10, 2014
Eric Gainer, a former student in my online writing course Memories into Story I, recently published a moving memoir about...
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Book Review: Signed, Sealed, Delivered by Nina Sankovitch

November 10, 2014
    by Allison Howard There is something enticing and irresistibly voyeuristic about reading the personal letters of others. They...
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“An Artful Arrangement of Truth”: Interview with author Lee Martin (Part 2)

October 26, 2014
Read Part 1 here. "When we announce [our experiences] through the art of writing, we have to do something with them....
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“An Artful Arrangement of Truth”: Interview with author Lee Martin (Part 1)

October 24, 2014
“I believe that memoir isn’t an exact record of experience but instead an artful arrangement of truth that creates a...
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(Not So) Wordless Wednesday: 84

October 15, 2014
Something a little different this week for Wordless Wednesday -- a family-history related set of photos. I'll explain more in...
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Will Come the Words: Kristen den Hartog’s creative space

October 15, 2014
    KRISTEN DEN HARTOG lives and writes in Toronto, Canada.   What I like about my space Mine is...
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