Columnists
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March 12, 2020What Wolves Are You Missing? How Writing Communities Improve Our Writing
By A.H. Reaume“The Yellowstone river is healthier today than it was in 1995. The wild part about this positive ecological trend (which cuts against so many other ecological trends in the world) is that we understand ...
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March 05, 2020Book Therapy: Shani Mootoo’s Polar Vortex
By Stacey May Fowles“The body is always in the moment. It doesn’t care if it was warmer or colder any other time. It’s concerned—a matter of survival, naturally—only with how it is in the present.”—Shani Mootoo, ...
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March 02, 2020Acknowledging Fear in Writing
By Chelene Knight“Don’t tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief’s wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear’s caul.” – Toni Morrison Fear.Fear of the first draft, fear of spiders, fear of ...
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February 27, 2020Making Time: How Ondaatje Taught Me To Show Up For Myself, or Plotting vs. Pantsing
By Shazia Hafiz RamjiThere are some books whose images stay with us long after we’ve read them, far more than the stories or the characters themselves. An image that has stayed with me over the years is from The English ...
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February 25, 2020A Love Letter to Scarborough Writers
By Natasha RamoutarTo busy writers, penning poems on the back of receipts, scribbling into notebooks on Line 3 — this is for you.I rarely find time to sit down and write anymore. Instead, I create fragments wherever I ...
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February 21, 2020On Trying Not To Fly By the Seat of My Pants
By Nancy Jo CullenI’m a writer who regularly finishes projects, but I wouldn’t describe myself as a writer with a regular practice. This is something I feel I should be able to correct and yet somehow writing continues ...
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February 18, 2020What Do You Wish You Had Known Before Becoming a Children's Book Creator?
By Naseem HrabI’ve worked in children’s publishing for nearly fifteen years and I’ve been writing children’s books for about five years. All this to say, I learned a lot about the realities of publishing children’s ...
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February 07, 2020Book Therapy: The Wisdom of Children(’s Books)
By Stacey May Fowles“I’ll be okay…I’ll be okay…”—Akiko Miyakoshi, The Piano RecitalIt’s probably not surprising that, after eighteen months of extended maternity leave, I’ve found the return to full time ...
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February 04, 2020How Ableism Stopped Me From Writing
By A.H. Reaume“When will your novel be ready to send to agents?”Maddy asked this question as we lay on the beach. It was a hot August day and we were looking out at the water and eating cherries. I smiled and put ...
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January 31, 2020Quick and Dirty on Communication and Inviting Writers to Do All the Things
By Chelene KnightIt’s a beautiful thing when writers make money. It’s an incredible feeling to open up your email and see all the love, invites, and possible project collaborations. This influx is not constant, it ...
