Writing Resources

 Writing Home: A Whole Life Practice by Mary Ann Moore

Unfold your personal story.
Envelop yourself with your own wisdom.
Live your life from that heart-opening place.

Writing Home is a magical blend of memoir, poetry and writing guide beautifully designed by Sarah Clark (344 pages, soft cover, 7-1/2 inches x 9 inches, with an index). For readers hungry to embark on their own spiritual life journey, here is an interactive and enlightening guide.

Mary Ann includes other writers, former participants of writing circles, goddesses and spiritual guides throughout Writing Home. You may write alone but Mary Ann conveys community in a way that centres a sense of belonging. There is no pressure in Mary Ann’s approach, rather she offers generous invitations, lots of permissions and a deep honouring of each person’s unfolding process. Author and writer remain relational throughout. 

Kate Burns, Nanaimo, B.C.

Devoting time to a personal writing practice is an act of self-affirmation, love, and spirituality.  If you long to “write” yourself home, to unveil or rejoin the genuine, soulful, “you,” Mary Ann Moore’s study of this “whole life practice” lays out a path for you to follow. It meanders, delightfully, through stories, poetry, and prompts – countless ways for you to surrender, cross thresholds, dive deep, hear, see, feel and dream your way home. Like me, I think you’ll find the stories that define your life and the shaping of you are simply the best gift you could ever give yourself.  

Stephanie Clark, Elora, Ontario

To order:
To order by mail, the price, is $55 + postage of $20 in Canada ($75.)
Bonus Gift: Fishing for Mermaids, Mary Ann’s book of poetry (Leaf Press)

Visit compendiumshop.ca or sarahclarkdesign.ca for further information and to pay by e-transfer or PayPal.
To pay by cash or cheque, or if you’re able to pick up your copy in Nanaimo, B.C., please contact Mary Ann directly at creativity@maryannmoore.ca.
If you are in the U.S., please contact Mary Ann by email at creativity@maryannmoore.ca so we can figure out postage to your particular area.

If you are ready to embrace your own spiritual life journey, consider Writing Home: A Whole Life Practice, your interactive and enlightening guide.

 

Writing to Map Your Spiritual Journey, created by poet and writing mentor Mary Ann Moore, is a pilgrimage on the page through eight chapters, full of inspiration, stories, and many writing practice suggestions, beautifully designed in full-colour. Mary Ann shares her expansive knowledge of earth-based practices and goddess spirituality to connect you more deeply to your writing and your own story. Writing to Map Your Spiritual Journey is a digital PDF available from the International Association for Journal Writing (IAJW). To learn more and to purchase visit iajw.org and look under Products: Journal Writing Tools or access from this direct link: International Association for Journal Writing

To see a larger version of the cover and the contents of Writing to Map Your Spiritual Journey, have a look here.

Praise for Writing to Map Your Spiritual Journey:

Writing to Map Your Spiritual Journey is a must have for journalists, memoirists, poets and everyone else who writes.  Mary Ann Moore has a solid understanding of the creative process and has created a self guided pilgrimage that will connect you to your ancestors, to the goddesses, to nature and ultimately to your own creative energy.

 This is a journey you will not want to rush.  Each chapter is full of information, writing practices, examples and suggestions for further reading which will open doors you will want to take time to explore.

I highly recommend Writing to Map Your Spiritual JourneyIt is rich with ideas and it is exquisitely formatted with engaging photography, art work and inspirational quotes.  It is one of the best books on writing that I’ve seen.

Marlene Dean is a retired educator, freelance writer and poet.  Her work has been published in literary journals, anthologies and newspapers in the U.S. and Canada.

Poetry by Mary Ann Moore

Fishing for Mermaids (Leaf Press, April 2014)

Fishing for Mermaids

Fishing for Mermaids: Poems by Mary Ann Moore
published by Leaf Press (April 2014)

You can get your very own copy of Fishing for Mermaids right here for $20 plus shipping:

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Fishing for Mermaids celebrates the joyously human and the mythological.” The Vancouver Sun
Read Dennis E. Bolen’s review in The Vancouver Sun.

“These are close-up poems with lines pressing their noses to the savoury scents of the unexpected . . . Moore’s interest in communing with womankind is a driving force in her poetry.”
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Readings

Poetry Chapbook Launch: Mending by Mary Ann Moore; Sea Washed Stones by MJ Burrows;
and Because Things Are by Marlene Dean

Monday, April 3, 2023, 2 to 3:30 p.m.
North Branch of the Vancouver Island Regional Library, Nanaimo
The three poets will read from their new chapbooks of poetry which will be available for purchase.
The event is free and refreshments will be available.
Here’s a link to further details: Poetry Reading 

To see the three chapbooks of poetry noted above, all published by house of appleton
in Nanaimo, and to purchase, have a look here.

Poetry Reading at Planet Earth Poetry with Mary Ann Moore, MJ Burrows and Marlene Dean
Friday, April 21, 2023, 7: 30 p.m.
Russell Books, 747 Fort Street, in Victoria, B.C.
The three poets will read from their new chapbooks of poetry which will be available for purchase.
See the link to Planet Earth Poetry here.

An Invitation to Begin & Sustain Your Own Poem Writing Practice, in Nanaimo
Monday, September 26, 2022, 2 to 3:30 p.m. Free
North Branch of the Vancouver Island Regional Library
Please register for the workshop in advance here.

Poetry Reading with Mary Ann Moore & Kamal Pamar, Nanaimo’s Poet Laureate
in Nanaimo:

Saturday, June 4, 2022, 11 a.m.
Chapters Woodgrove, Nanaimo

 

Selected Anthologies

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Poems from Planet Earth

edited by Yvonne Blomer and Cynthia Woodman-Kerkham with an introduction by Patrick Lane
(Leaf Press, 2013) $19.95

Poems from Planet Earth is a round-up of poems from readers at internationally renowned Planet Earth Poetry in Victoria, B.C. – named after P.K. Page’s poem “Planet
Earth.” There are 116 contributors – among them Kate Braid, Brian Brett, Lorna Crozier, Patrick Lane, Mary Ann Moore, Wendy Morton, Sheri-D Wilson and Betsy Warland.

Order your own copy of Poems from Planet Earth from Leaf Press: www.leafpress.ca

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Living Artfully

Living Artfully: Reflections from the Far West Coast edited by Anita Sinner and
Christine Lowther (The Key Publishing, 2012) $32.99

The essays in this collection offer unique perspectives and insights into the interrelationship of creativity and geography. The west coast is integral to the experiences,
lifestyles and critical moments of the artists who have contributed essays and art work to the book. Mary Ann Moore’s essay is “Who I Am, Here.” Other contributors include Kim Goldberg, Janet Rogers, and Margaret Murphy.

You can find out more about Living Artfully here. Order from The Key Publishing or Amazon.

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Stones

Stones: Selected Stories and Poems by the Easy Writers
(Ascent Aspirations Publishing, 2012) $19.95

Nine Vancouver Islanders make up the Easy Writers: John Beaton, Di Clarence, David Fraser, Harvey Jenkins, Judy Millar, Mary Ann Moore, Cindy Shantz, Pat Smekal,
and Fran Thiessen. Each a pebble flicked into the pool of life’s emotions, these works send ripples through readers’ minds.

Order your own copy of Stones from the publisher: Ascent Aspirations

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One Sweet Ride

One Sweet Ride: An Easy Writers’ Anthology by the Easy Writers
(Ascent Aspirations Publishing, 2009) $15.00

Nine Vancouver Islanders make up the eclectic, dynamic group known as the Easy Writers. Some write poetry (including haiku); others favour prose. All share a love
for the written, and spoken word.

Order your own copy of One Sweet Ride from the publisher: Ascent Aspirations

Poetry

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You Are Here

You Are Here (Leaf Press, 2012) $10

This chapbook of 16 poems begins with “Poet’s Morning” and ends with “Reading Poetry In Bed.” Travel to Istanbul and the ancient village of Catal Hoyuk in Turkey. Get caught up in the poet’s fascination with handprints and memories of women’s circles. Dream along with the narrator as she muses about angels, mermaids, Frida Kahlo and the colour blue. Nature, erotica and the soul of an ordinary day make their way into this sensuous and sensory collection of poems.

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Those Early Days, Hopeful

Those Early Days, Hopeful (Leaf Press, 2010) $10

This chapbook of 14 poems is one of a series called gesture from Leaf Press. Moore writes about childhood in Ontario’s Ottawa Valley, of playing with a dollhouse and paper dolls, of Grandma’s advice, and the final days of a dying mother.

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The Names of Things

The Names of Things (The Flying Mermaids Studio, 2009) $15

In this collection of nineteen poems, Mary Ann Moore names the things she has found on Vancouver Island; in the Ottawa Valley; on her travels to Crete, Turkey and New Mexico; and in her inner garden of memories and imaginings.

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When My Heart is Open

When My Heart is Open, a CD of poems
by Mary Ann Moore (The Flying Mermaids Studio, 1999) $10

Odes to eggplants, hands and colour. Ancient memories of women’s rituals. Found poems.”True stories” about umbrellas, hedge clippers and Volkswagens. Poems in the shower, outside the Islam store, on the street car, in Crete, in Anatolia.
They’re all here along with where the poems came from and suggestions for writing your own poems. Poems read under a full harvest moon with a gentle voice and an open heart.