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 | May 29, 2014 | Contemplations, Writers, Writing Life
My friend and colleague Aaron Shepard, author of When is a Man and this thoughtful guest post on my own site, recently asked me to take part in a blog tour happening in the literary community across Canada. He was tagged by fiction writer Julie Paul who was recruited...
by PDR-Kellie | May 21, 2014 | Manitoba, Ontario, Poetry, Readings, Saskatchewan, The Pas, Writers, Writing Life
For the past two weeks, I’ve spent my days gazing out a wide window at the Qu’Appelle Valley, watching the highway move cars up/down the hill, to/from Regina, and walking the road onto wide prairie, under the huge, changeable sky. We’ve done amazing...
by PDR-Kellie | Sep 18, 2013 | Manitoba, Nature, Seasons, Swarm, The Pas, Writing Life
Yesterday was the official launch day of my book. It felt incredibly anti-climactic. Not a whole lot new happened, other than my awareness that the book could now be easily ordered – rather than pre-ordered – online or even outright purchased in the...