A Poet’s Nanaimo
Cooking Tips for Desperate Fishwives
That’s a very catchy cover and title for Margot Fedoruk’s memoir published this Fall by Heritage House. The cover illustration is by Setareh Ashrafologhalai who also designed the book’s interior. Margot, who lives on Gabriola Island, B.C., has lived in several places...
The Most Profitable Way
No, this isn’t a blog about money. It’s about rest. The quote is from Virginia Woolf who wrote in her diary on February 16, 1930: “I would like to lie down and sleep, but feel ashamed. Leonard brushed off his influenza in one day and went about his business feeling...
The Great Book of Journaling
Eric Maisel who has written over 50 books on writing, creativity and such topics as establishing your own daily practice, and Lynda Monk, writer and director of the International Association for Journal Writing (IAJW), have gathered an exciting array of contributors...
The Circle is Open 2022
I see I did another blog with the same theme and so I’ve added the year to this one. “The circle is open” is something I say at the end of a women's writing circle: The circle is open but unbroken May the love of the goddess be ever in our hearts Merry meet and merry...
intertidal
Zoe Dickinson, a poet and bookseller from Victoria, B.C., is the 2022 winner of the Raven Chapbooks Contest with intertidal: poems from the littoral zone. It sounds rather erotic doesn’t it, and definitely literary. (Zoe is also Artistic Director of Planet Earth...
This Has Always Been a War
Lori Fox, based in Whitehorse, Yukon, describes their new book of essays, This Has Always Been a War (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2021), as a “scrappy, angry little book” with its sub-title of “The Radicalization of a Working-Class Queer." In an interview with Yukon News for...