Bestselling author ALICE KUIPERS was born in London. She moved to Canada in 2003. Her first novel, Life on the...
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“I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.”
— James A. Michener
Strong Writing Requires “Hot Line” Discipline: Interview with memoirist Gabrielle Hamilton (Part 2)
August 20, 2014
Read Part 1 of this interview with Gabrielle Hamilton, NYC restaurateur and author of the memoir Bread, Bones & Butter....
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Mother, Chef, NYC Restaurateur, Author: Interview with busy memoirist Gabrielle Hamilton (Part 1)
July 29, 2014
This is Part 1 of a 2-part interview. GABRIELLE HAMILTON is the chef/owner of PRUNE, which she opened in New...
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(Not So) Wordless Wednesday photo: 77
July 23, 2014
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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Using Creole, and Other Regional Dialects, in Writing: guest post by Lisa Allen-Agostini
July 22, 2014
Whether to use dialect in memoir and fiction writing, how much to use, and in what way to use it...
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Dipping My Toes in Grenadian Waters: My first residential writers’ retreat
June 24, 2014
Guest Post by Janet Weiss-Townsend I’m not a person who’s compelled to write. And I’m not a writer since...
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Will Come the Words: author Catherine Gildiner’s creative spaces
May 28, 2014
Here's the series Introduction. CATHERINE GILDINER lives and writes in Toronto and Creemore, Ontario, Canada. (more…)
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Congratulations to winners of the OWC Story Starters Creative Writing Contest!
May 14, 2014
Winners of the Story Starters writing contest were announced at the close of this year's Ontario Writers' Conference....
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Will Come the Words: Author Ken McGoogan’s creative spaces in the great wide world
May 14, 2014
Read the series Introduction. KEN McGOOGAN lives in The Beaches area of Toronto. He writes there . ....
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Inspired by Art: Who’ll win the OWC “Story Starters” writing competition?
April 30, 2014
Click to read stories based on this photograph. Story Starters I was thrilled when the Ontario Writers' Conference committee...
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Facebook for Writers: Connections, community, and meaningful coincidence, guest post by Elinor Florence
April 22, 2014
Social media is a term that can conjure up images of faceless spam artists, and creepy Big Brother spying...
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“If you aren’t honest, you won’t write anything worth reading”: Author Helen Humphreys on her memoir Nocturne
April 17, 2014
HELEN HUMPHREYS is the author of four books of poetry, six novels, and two works of creative nonfiction. She was...
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