I interviewed Anita Daher, today's CreComm guest speaker and Winnipeg writer extraordinaire, by email just before classes started--but decided to save it for when she arrived to speak about her extensive experience as a children's writer. Note carefully her point about grammar and how editors roll their eyes! 1. What’s…
Read MoreJoin Creative Communications Section 1 for the launch of I would be Lightning Man, Friday, November 5, 5:30 - 8:00 p.m. at The Academy on Osborne - 437 Stradbrook Ave. I would be Lightning Man is a collection of short stories, illustrations, and poetry submitted by people who answered the…
Read MoreOne book ate two years of my young life, and you have to look very hard to find my name in it. For a very brief time in certain publishing circles in TO I was known as “the woman who came up with the table of contents for [insert name…
Read MoreI didn’t post last weekend while I was at the CCWWP founding conference, though anyone who follows me on Twitter cannot have failed to notice my incessant tweeting about it. Many jokes were made about the CCWWP needing to be on the back of a Cold War–era hockey jersey. It…
Read MoreDavid Elias will join us at Red River College Princess Street as Writer-in-Residence from November 8 to December 10. He will be available to read and comment on students’ creative writing. [caption id="attachment_211" align="alignright" width="227" caption="David Elias"][/caption] David is the author of four books of fiction. His work has been…
Read MoreI posted last year about my reluctance to see the Tim Burton Alice movie. I’m a die-hard original Alice fan, so I was afraid it would disappoint. Still haven't seen it. Maybe during the holidays? In December? 2021? Alice was another book I write about, more than once in my…
Read MoreAt the Thin Air event I attended at the University of Winnipeg, poet-luminaries Sina Queryas and George Murray talked about creating on-line communities to a professor-dotted room while a group of students waited outside for the panel to finish so they could come in and read from their own work.…
Read MoreMore on these events after the fact, but for now, hie thee to THIN AIR, and start with its Campus Program at Red River College. The full festival schedule is here. --- Red River College is proud to be part of the campus program of Thin Air: The Winnipeg International…
Read MoreIf I haven't stressed this enough in Creative Writing class: surprise me. This week I handed out the short story assignment, and along with it gave a scintillating PowerPoint presentation about things not to write the short story about, a presentation comprising both some useful tidbits of advice inherited from…
Read MoreAnother series of posts I'm working on: jobs I've had, and what I learned from them. Today: working on Hansard, which, as you probably know, is the official record of debate in Canadian (among other) legislatures. For three weeks, until I got a better job offer, I was a transcriptionist…
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