Rabindranath Maharaj’s, A Perfect Pledge, was short listed for a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the 2006 Rogers Fiction Prize. Many post-colonial works have been written in fashionable, magic realistic styles. This novel avoids postmodern cliche. The story is by turns realistic, sensitive and satirical. In the 1960’s, life is hard in rural Trinidad. The novel […]
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Bruce Holland Rogers has a unique subscription service. He writes short short stories and sends them to his subscribers worldwide. His stories vary from fables in far off lands to slices of contemporary life. He has won awards and keeps an interesting blog about his travels. He is currently living in England. Because the subscription
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I have been submitting to contests and magazines lately. I’ve typed so much that my wrists have been sore three days running. This is a familiar pain to me. I logged many hours entering data as a teacher-librarian at my first public school. There was little budget for automation so I and a few parent
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This is the annual home of CANSCAIP’s Packaging Your Imagination.
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Sharon Jennings: Reluctant to Start Writing? Have I Got a Reader For You!Sharon’s class was so popular that she had to present in the chapel at Victoria College. She explained that the typical reluctant reader is a grade six boy reading at a grade 2.5 level. To grab this group she emphasized: exciting plot accessible
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Bought at Packaging Your Imagination The Alchemist’s Portrait by Simon Rose The Mysterious Mummer by L.M. Falcone Good Times Travel Agency: Adventures in Ancient China by Linda Bailey, illustrated by Bill Slavin. I wanted to buy one of Sharon Jenning’s Bats books for reluctant readers but I only saw her books for younger readers. Workshops
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Today I attended CANSAIP’s annual conference called Packaging Your Imagination. Held at Trinity college, Toronto, the day-long conference consisted of three workshops and a keynote speaker. Between the second and third workshops, there was a sit down lunch with brief speeches from the CANSCAIP organizers. I will talk about the workshops another time. I’m still
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I finished reading Jasper Fforde’s The Eyre Affair. It’s a Brontë lover’s romp, written for our times. A demonic villain, Acheron Hades, is invading fictional classics via the original manuscripts and changing the stories. Reader’s who own a copy of these books watch, dismayed, as he kidnaps characters or otherwise rewrites the stories. Comic Fantasy
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I find it hard to write objectively about something like a wedding. Leaving out the personal pictures and names, here I go: Saturday I went to a wedding at Hart House chapel, University of Toronto. There was seating for about twenty-five people in the chapel, dominated by post-war murals and stained glass. A table, topped
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