by PDR-Kellie | Jun 16, 2016 | British Columbia, Contemplations, Creativity, Creativity Coaching, First Nations, Guest Posts, History, Issues, New, Process, Recommended, Writers, Writing Life
I’ve been on a reading blitz lately about residential schools. I’ve read a couple novels that address this atrocious time in Canadian history, and I’m deep into volume one of the final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, a...
by PDR-Kellie | Jul 9, 2015 | Alberta, British Columbia, Family, First Nations, Manitoba, News, Saskatchewan, The Pas
My husband is reading The Road. You know, the post-apocalyptic Cormac McCarthy novel where the world is blanketed in ash and everything is burnt or burning. It’s a fitting setting for the situation in Western Canada this summer. To the south of us,...
by PDR-Kellie | Jun 4, 2015 | Books, British Columbia, Firelight Interview Series, Process, Short Stories, Writers, Writing Life
This month’s Firelight Interview is with author Julie Paul. Her second collection of short stories, The Pull of the Moon, was chosen by the Globe and Mail as one of the best 100 books of 2014. “This is writing of emotional veracity with an edge, of humour...
by PDR-Kellie | Aug 7, 2014 | British Columbia, Firelight Interview Series, Ontario, Writers, Writing Life
Who are you? I’m a Franco-Ontarian, former catholic, former journalist from Blind River, Ontario. I learned Spanish in my 20s and used it to live in Mexico City and rural Honduras before coming to Vancouver to do a Creative Writing MFA. I planned to flee this city...
by PDR-Kellie | Jun 19, 2014 | British Columbia, Contemplations, Going Green, Issues, Nature, Swarm
What I thought about yesterday morning, as I opened up the new package of dental floss with a special weave so it won’t break, is how so much of our human ingenuity and our diminishing energy supplies goes towards making new stuff that will appeal to the...
by PDR-Kellie | Feb 6, 2014 | Alberta, Books, British Columbia, Firelight Interview Series, Ontario, Short Stories, Writers, Writing Life
Nancy Jo Cullen is the author of Canary (Biblioasis, 2013), which won the 2011–12 Metcalf-Rooke Award (“this book is intoxicating,” said judges Leon Rooke and John Metcalfe). She’s also published three collections of poetry, and was the winner of the...
