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  • The Art Fantastic, Part 1

    Last week I was supposed to start a writing workshop at Grant MacEwan on fantasy writing. The teachers were Barbara Galler-Smith, novelist and editor at On Spec magazine, and Ann Marston, novel and short story writer. Of course I was excited to take a class with these accomplished writers. Their biographies read like my professional Read more

  • Readux: The Sisters Brothers

    Title: The Sisters BrothersAuthor: Patrick deWittPublished: 2011 (House of Anansi)Genre: FictionDate Started: January 16, 2012  Date Finished: January 24, 2012Worthy of Note: winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award I was sitting outside the Commodore’s mansion… Bare, masculine, and poetic, The Sisters Brothers brings Literature and the Western genre together in phenomenal form. It reads like a Read more

  • The Thing About Outlines

    I’ve tried on paper, I’ve tried on Microsoft Words 2004 and 2011, I’ve tried on Storyist, and I cannot make an outline. At first I thought perhaps it was because I cannot draw straight lines despite being a linear thinker, so doing it on paper is too much work because I have to use my Read more

  • New Year’s Reading Resolutions, or How the Bet Was Won

    My name is Amanda and I’m a book-aholic. Now, while I don’t see any disadvantage to this, I have a fiance who thinks that my reading career has gotten just too cushy. Before the end of the 2011, he presented me with this challenge: I, Amanda Bereska, may not purchase any new books in 2012. Read more