by Lauren Carter | May 20, 2020 | Manitoba, News, Novel, Ontario, Prizes, Publications, Readings, Writers, Writing Life
As a young woman living in Peterborough, Ontario, I never would have thought that one day I’d move to Margaret Laurence’s home province of Manitoba. If a fortune teller had also muttered in my ear that I’d win a prize named after her for my second novel, I might have...
by PDR-Kellie | Nov 9, 2017 | Contemplations, Creativity, Family, Manitoba, Nature, Novel, Poetry, Prizes, Process, Suicide, Tim, Travel, Winnipeg, Writers, Writing Life
Last spring, and earlier, in the previous winter and fall, I wrote some poems about my brother. One came in the night, in a tent, camped on the rocky shore of the arm of Simonhouse Lake that leads into Second Cranberry as J. and I were pushing into wilderness on a...
by PDR-Kellie | Sep 17, 2015 | Books, Contemplations, Giveaways, Guest Posts, Nature, Novel, outdoors, Prizes, Process, Recommended, United States, Writers, Writing Life
In Calgary, this past spring, I had the real pleasure of reading Leo Brent Robillard’s fourth novel, The Road to Atlantis. The publisher had asked me to blurb it, which means to give it a tidbit of praise they can use on the cover, and I’m usually careful...
by PDR-Kellie | Oct 16, 2014 | Contemplations, First Nations, History, News, Ontario, Poetry, Prizes, Writing Life
Last spring, I had the great privilege of being mentored by the poet Jan Zwicky at the Sage Hill Writing Experience, along with seven other extraordinary writers. For those two weeks, I sifted through a manuscript-in-process about my great-great-grandparents’...
by PDR-Kellie | Jan 29, 2014 | Prizes, Writing Life
Me! This morning the phone rang and a wonderful woman from down south in Winnipeg told me I’d won, actually won, and FIRST PRIZE at that, the Prairie Fire Fiction contest! Holy crap, I think I said! Not very genteel but, you know, as a writer you send off a lot...
