From Fledgling to F*#@ing Flight
WARNING Not a festival to censor, the below blog includes some carefully placed symbols. From Fledgling to F*#@ing Flight An A&*!!@hole’s Ten Tips to Elevate Your Prose By Juan Hitta #1 most important is to write all the f*#@ing time. the good thing about going to writing school is it forces you to pump out […]
Inside The Outside Circle
A book review by Katherine Fawcett First Nations communities have long known the healing power of story-telling. But healing can be a painful process, and like splitting open infected wounds and washing them with salty tears, those stories are often hard to hear. The Outside Circle, a graphic novel by Patti LaBoucane-Benson (illustrated by Kelly […]
Oh My!
Katherine Fawcett’s short story collection, Little Washer of Sorrows Review by Karen McLeod How does Katherine Fawcett come up with these fantastic, original stories? I picture the author and her friends on a dock, it’s a summer evening, they’ve had a few, and then the “What if?” conversation starts. The first story in the collection, […]
Subtle Suspense
A Book Review of Punishment by Linden MacIntyre Review by Karen McLeod One sign of a great read is that it turns me into a not-so-great mom. Case in point: this summer, while the good moms on the ferry were flapping and squinting on deck, steering the hope-filled gazes of their children towards an orca […]
Great Girlfriend’s Advice
By Joanne Fogolin This time of year marks the preparation for the Whistler Writers Festival, and the much anticipated return of, “Tasting the Divine: Cooks with Books” evening, slated for October 16, 2015. Three authors will be in attendance to sign books and answer questions. I’ve been asked to read, sample recipes, and review Emily […]
Movement is my Mother Tongue
I’m fascinated by transitions. The precise moment between the release of the last tenuous grasp of the familiar, and the new becoming fully formed charms me. That point is almost impossible to identify and like many, I used to rush to escape the discomfort in its uncertainty.
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Fledgling to Flight
“Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.” – Victor Hugo I have a new novel coming out this year. I say these words quietly because it seems so self-indulgent to say it any other way. In […]
Reading Event 12: Grant Lawrence in conversation
Fairmont Chateau Whistler October 18, 2015 | 11:00 am – 1:00 pm $35 Includes brunch Description: Grant Lawrence in conversation with Marina Endicott, Camilla Gibb, Catherine Hunter, Amanda Lindhout, Nino Ricci, Steve Toltz. (**Update: Amanda Lindhout is unable to attend this event.) Whet your appetite and your curiosity with the CBC’s Grant Lawrence, in conversation with Marina […]
Hill, Lawrence
Lawrence Hill is the award-winning and internationally bestselling author of The Book of Negroes, which was made into a six part TV mini-series. His previous novels, Some Great Thing and Any Known Blood, became national bestsellers. Hill’s non-fiction work includes Blood: The Stuff of Life, the subject of his 2013 Massey Lectures, and Black Berry, Sweet Juice, a memoir about growing […]