Guest Post: Hurtling Down the Page

By Angilene Gallop After a year-long health crisis that took me completely out of the writing game, I’m on my way back. So, imagine my surprise and pleasure when, during one of Lauren’s Simply Write sessions a full-blown, post-health-crisis writing manifesto emerged. I hope it inspires you as much as it inspires me…  We were […]

The Laurence Prize and Lineage

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 been skeptical too (yet also […]

Poetry and PPE

I’ve been writing a lot lately – that’s what happens when you commit to pick up the pen pretty much every day, for at least twenty minutes. Some fiction (one of the prompts that I gave in one of my live-streaming sessions through my Write Ramble Facebook group was to write about mud and that […]

Introducing… the Pandemic Response Reading Series

This slow morning, the cat gets us up with his insistent meowing to be fed. J. and I take care of the animals, then recline on the couch for coffee. We watch the snow slanting out of a purple-grey sky and talk about narrow-boating in Yorkshire canals (reminiscing over the ‘journey’ we went on during […]

One Day At A Time

One of my mantras when I’m working on long-term writing projects is a single word. Patience.  I mutter this to myself often as I’m writing through a first draft and, once that’s completed, when I have to type up whole novels written in longhand in notebooks. It’s easy to get overwhelmed with the amount of […]