There are hundreds of literary blogs out there and I subscribe to several dozen of them, but recently I’ve pared down my RSS subscriptions again, and thought I’d share five of my favourites. So I present to you, in no particular order: 1. Bookninja George Murray posts several times a day, commenting on the latest in book news, reviews and miscellanea with […]
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I’m at work on a short story I first started about six months ago. After a few initial re-writes around that time it’s been sitting abandoned in a folder, though not forgotten. Today was the first time I’d re-read it in full since that time. It’s better than I remember it, though not as good as I
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I mailed out another submission this afternoon; a short story to a Canadian magazine I recently discovered and enjoy. I wrote the first draft of the story a few months ago and have been tinkering with it incessantly for the past few weeks. It’s been driving me mad, but I think it’s ok. I hope so, anyway. It’s
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In 2009 my husband took a series of pictures he described as my view of the world. I thought it might be fun to reproduce them here. I imagine you can guess the theme.
I submitted a few poems today to one of my favourite literary journals. I had a few poems rejected last year for inclusion in an anthology, one of which was reworked and mailed today, hopefully better than it was before. It’s been a long time since I’ve submitted something. Though I’ve been writing more than ever, I’ve
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Each year I participate in CIBC’s Run for the Cure to raise money for breast cancer research and prevention. It’s an important charity to me, my Grandmother died of cancer in 2001. She was the most amazing woman and it was heartbreaking to watch. For the uninitiated, the runners in pink shirts are breast cancer survivors, those
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