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  • I Love it When a Plan Comes Together
    I Love it When a Plan Comes Together
    June 18, 2022

    I Love it When a Plan Comes Together

    I don't know what other writers' process is so I've no idea if this will be unique or interesting, but this would be mine. It's evolved over the years because I like to imagine that I've grown as an individual ...

  • Through the Eyes of Asunder
    Through the Eyes of Asunder
    June 07, 2022

    Getting Started the Long Way Around

    I didn't always want to be a writer, mind you, I didn't learn to read or write until I was about 12. I have this auditory learning disability that makes learning things a challenge, most things I can ...

  • June 02, 2022

    So I Nearly Died

    So I almost died and in doing so discovered that dying has the strange effect of stealing my creativity and passion for art and writing, but not because they no longer move me, instead it was because ...

  • "I Was Unsure if I’d Ever Find the Ending" Lorrie Potvin on Finding Answers in Her Gripping New Memoir of Queer Identity, Family, & More
    "I Was Unsure if I’d Ever Find the Ending" Lorrie Potvin on Finding Answers in Her Gripping New Memoir of Queer Identity, Family, & More
    January 26, 2022

    "I Was Unsure if I’d Ever Find the Ending" Lorrie Potvin on Finding Answers in Her Gripping New Memoir of Queer Identity, Family, & More

    Lorrie Potvin knows a lot about telling stories. Her first book, First Gear: A Motorcycle Memoir, told the incredible story of her motorcycle journey from Ottawa to Winnipeg, at age 50, while living ...

  • Claiming Space for Indigenous Languages in English Literature
    Claiming Space for Indigenous Languages in English Literature
    January 22, 2021

    Claiming Space for Indigenous Languages in English Literature

    English is the language of the colonizer. It came with the arrival of settlers to what many people call Turtle Island, or North America. It is a relatively new language to this land, and has only been ...

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