by Lauren Carter | Oct 6, 2016 | Courses, Creativity, Creativity Coaching, Family, New, Process, Recommended, Teaching, Workshops, Writers, Writing Life
Last year, when Liz Howard won the Griffin Poetry Prize, she told the audience that writing saved her life. “[F]or me, poetry made life possible,” she said. I get this. I understand this a lot. Lately, things have not been easy for my family, and I’ve been...
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 | Mar 31, 2016 | Bargains!, Creativity, Creativity Coaching, New, Process, Teaching, Workshops, Writers, Writing Life
The world up here is covered in slowly thinning snow; the ice not yet sliding down the river. The sun is warmer, the ravens are talking up a storm, the crows are back, and the magpies are busy building their stick-pod nests. It’s spring, that time when whatever...
by PDR-Kellie | Mar 26, 2015 | Contemplations, New, Short Stories, Writing Life
Last fall, I wrote a story. It was early morning, and I had the itch, and it was one of those great days when the thing just poured out of me. The draft I ended up with hardly needed any work. A few changes, a bit of shifting around, tweaks here and there, and I was...
