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Rosemary Keevil blog: The mentorship connection

by Rosemary Keevil Connecting with other writers through mentoring: When the teacher is ready the student will appear. I have been a journalist for decades and it took what seems like forever to write my memoir: The Art of Losing It: A Memoir of Grief and Addiction. It will be published this October by She Writes […]

Janie Brown blog: My pandemic book birthday

Note to Self:  Don’t launch a book amidst a global pandemic by Janie Brown March 5, 2020 was UK Publication Day (Canongate). We drank champagne and ate cake that my sister Kate had designed for the occasion. The chocolate sponge book was decorated with the bird images from my cover and the words Radical Acts […]

Book Review: The Difference

The Difference by Marina Endicott Review by Farha Guerrero One of the many pleasures of reading is that it allows us to journey to unknown places; and nothing could hold truer than the present moment where we face the uncertainties of global travel amidst a despairing pandemic. Reading is discovering, or as Honoré Balzac put […]

Jenn Ashton on Connection

I have known I was a writer since I was six or seven years old. It has been my other language. If I seemed like a shy nose-in-a-book kid, I was, until you read my writing; and then I was a big, loudmouth, fast-talking, vibrant and vibrating, opinionated little being. One side of my life […]

Book Review: The Glass Hotel

The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel Review by Nicole Fitzgerald Emily St. John Mandel’s new novel, The Glass Hotel, reads like a reflection on a window. The image changes as different characters step behind the glass. Only fragments of the bigger picture are reflected on their faces, leaving the reader to piece together […]

Book Review: Five Little Indians

Five Little Indians by Michelle Good Review by Dee Raffo Five Little Indians follows the lives of five young adults as they grapple with life after ‘Indian School’ in the 1960s. From their prison-like residential school on Vancouver Island, they are turfed onto the streets of Vancouver with no support, money, family connections or life […]