The trees of St. Vincent and the Grenadines. If I’m being completely honest, writing nonfiction terrifies me. But recently, I’ve … Continue reading Pushing Past the Fear of Writing Nonfiction—By Chanel M. Sutherland
The truth is, I’ve known since I began writing that if my husband Michael died, I couldn’t continue with the Chief Inspector Gamache mystery series. Continue reading I Thought I Was Writing a Potboiler—By Robyn Sarah
Is a writer who isn’t writing still a writer? And if so, for how long a stretch? These are the … Continue reading Writing about Not Writing—By Sivan Slapak
The movers cost about as much as the piano. When they pulled up in front of our house on a … Continue reading What Playing Piano Taught Me About Writing-by Carly Rosalie Vandergriendt
Before I ever joined a magazine, or published a novel, for that matter, here’s how I imagined people who had … Continue reading Why I Loved Editing a Small Canadian Online Magazine, and Why I’m Leaving—by Laurence Miall
On the wall above my desk in Montreal is a photograph taken in February at the Arctic Circle. The print … Continue reading Finding Perspective: Writing in the Dark at Berton House by Shelagh Plunkett
My daughter was born on August 25, 2014, and during the interminable lead-up to her birth I was, like all new parents, subject to a deluge of unsolicited advice, warnings and thinly-veiled threats from family, friends and complete strangers about what I could expect as a new parent. One of the warnings I heard most often was that the time I had for reading was going to be severely curtailed. Continue reading Hello Baby, Bye Bye Books by Mike Steeves
About a year ago, I was invited to give a talk to some graduate students at Queen’s University about what … Continue reading Busting the Myth of Work-Life Balance by Susan Olding
Like bread dough, my writing seems to require time to rise in a warm, draft-free place. The long proofing period … Continue reading Slow Writing by Chris Galvin
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