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  • March 13, 2017

    What I Wish Someone Had Told Me About Becoming a Writer #9: Monica Heisey

    Some years in the writing life are better than others. A few years ago I was having a bad one. My draft of The Best Kind of People wasn't working out. I wasn't sure it was ever going to be good enough ...

  • March 10, 2017

    What I Wish Someone Had Told Me about Becoming a Writer #2: Elisabeth de Mariaffi

    In my early 30s I went back to school to do my MFA at the University of Guelph-Humber. I was afraid I'd be older than everyone else in my cohort, and thus I was happy to meet a contemporary in Ken Babstock's ...

  • March 02, 2017

    What I Wish Someone Had Told Me About Being a Writer #1 - Q& A With Andrew Sullivan

    For the last two months I've been writer-in-residence at U of T in Scarborough. This means I get an office to write in, I run a writing group with creative writing students once a week, and give editorial ...

  • March 02, 2017

    Your Book Doesn't Belong to You

    You can never control how your work is going to be read, and that's part of the lovely participatory nature of the writer-reader relationship. But it can sometimes be jarring. I spent seven years writing ...

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