Collaborative writing is not about who wrote what and how much each of us are responsible for.
Written by Simon Groth | #NoOneSucceedsAlone Infinite Blue is a collaboration between me and my brother, Darren. We are separated by an ocean: he lives in Vancouver; I live in Brisbane. Maybe that’s why we can work together. People often ask us how it’s possible to write collaboratively, especially with a sibling. The rules we settled on go something like this: · […]
Sam Wiebe’s take on this year’s festival theme: No one succeeds alone
Written by Sam Wiebe | #NoOneSucceedsAlone Vancouver Noir was the first anthology I’ve edited, and the process was a lot different than writing a novel like Cut You Down. For the first time I was on the opposite end, giving suggestions to writers to hopefully improve their work. I learned a lot about collaboration and revision working with […]
My mother said, “You should give credit where it’s due.”
Written by Maureen Medved | #NoOneSucceedsAlone For some reason, I’ve always loved to tell stories at parties. Friends have called out to me, “Can you tell the one about…,” so over the years I would tell the same stories repeatedly, often acting out the parts. Eventually, I turned story telling into story writing. My father […]
Behind each carefully-crafted sentence and paragraph lurk the ghosts of other words
Written by Sharon Bala | #NoOneSucceedsAlone There is only one name on the spine of my novel but my book benefitted from several ghost writers. Before agents and editors and publishing houses, there was my writing group, Melissa, Jamie, Susan, Gary, Morgan, Matthew, and Carrie, scrawling notes in the margins, circling passages they liked and crossing […]
Book Review: Something for Everyone by Lisa Moore
by Karen McLeod In her third collection of short stories, Canadian author Lisa Moore takes you to familiar places—the shoe store, an insurance office, a night class—and introduces you to some regular people. There’s a librarian, a caretaker, a wifey-wife. But unexpected events, memorable characters, and a reverence for struggling make this collection anything but […]
Book Review: The Imam of Tawi-Tawi by Ian Hamilton
A book review of The Imam of Tawi-Tawi by Ian Hamilton.
The glow of the laptop can be a lonely and desolate thing
Written by Charles Demers | #NoOneSucceedsAlone Sometimes long prose projects can be hard for me, since I’m used to the stand-up comedy world of instant feedback and jamming on ideas with other comics in the context of live shows — contrarily, the glow of the laptop can be a lonely and desolate thing. Happily, a few […]
Dropping the F*BOMB: Why we all need to re-claim feminism
The Whistler Writing Society is proud to support Whistler’s Celebration of INTERNATIONAL DAY OF THE GIRL and their event Dropping the F*Bomb: Why we all need to re-claim feminism. The event takes place Saturday October 13, 6:00pm at Maury Young Arts Centre, and is designed for anyone ages 12+. Women’s Lib Equal Rights The sisterhood […]
No one succeeds alone
Written by Cornelia Hoogland | #NoOneSucceedsAlone My support for writing “Trailer Park Elegy” comes partly from my dog. When my brother died unexpectedly, I envisioned my dog as my driver who would ‘guide’ through grief’s ‘underworld;’ I’d be the passenger beside him in my red Toyota. My brother’s death had catapulted me into an otherness (underworld) […]
Since becoming a mom I have learned the secret of escape
Written by Dania Tomlinson | #NoOneSucceedsAlone Writing wouldn’t be possible for me without my writer friends, my husband, my mom, and a nearby coffee shop. Although my writer friends and I rarely discuss our work in much detail, we often rant and vent and work through broader aspects of our projects over beer. My husband is […]