My sixteen-year-old son recently consoled me as I wept over the rejection I received from the Banff School’s Writing Studio’s 5 week residency course. He told me that I would make it, that my writing was good. He has read my work – well, some of it,...
Okay, I didn’t do it right. I was supposed to add the names of those who would carry on this blog chain of novels in progress, and I didn’t. Because no one answered my email requesting their posts. Then Ruth Walker emailed me to ask if I’d like to...
Sitting on the tarmac at Pearson Airport on Thursday afternoon waiting for all the rerouted planes to dock and disgorge their occupants, I turned on my iPad to read the emails I couldn’t read in Cuba, and found a nice form letter from Banff School. The nice lady...
A couple of weeks ago I received an email from my friend Lauren Carter, asking me if I’d like to carry on a “blog tour.” She wrote: “I was just tagged in an ongoing blog tour by Aga Maksimowska to do a blog interview about what I’m...
At Sanctuary, that precious day of writing with other writers, we were given pieces of paper with words and phrases, and instructed to use them just as they were and fashion them into a dialogue. The words and phrases I received were: “I’m feeling...
