A WRITER'S LIFE

Last spring I spoke  with Caroline Adderson, who is the author of five novels, and many books for young readers. We spoke about when she joined the youth program, Katimavik. I loved hearing about why, and how she became a writer. Caroline is the Program Director of the Writing Studio at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, which runs for five weeks every May. I learned about The Shoe Project, and of course hearing her read, and talk about her lates novel  A Russian Sister Published  by Harper Collins Canada, 2020 it was fascinating. Caroline is not just a gifted writer, a brilliant teacher,  but she gives back so much to the writing community. 

For more information about Caroline Adderson and her latest writings, take a look at the links below.   

http://www.carolineadderson.com

http://www.carolineaddersonkids.com

https://www.facebook.com/carolineadderson.writer/

https://theshoeproject.online/people/caroline-adderson-2

https://thewalrus.ca/the-procedure/

https://notesandqueries.ca/short-fiction/all-our-auld-acquaintances-are-gone/

https://www.amazon.ca/s?k=caroline+adderson&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIjpvRqNPA-QIVBz6tBh0KGAIaEAMYASAAEgINRPD_BwE&hvadid=208312141173&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=1001898&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=b&hvrand=11538835713110648797&hvtargid=kwd-306726153980&hydadcr=23338_10093184&tag=googcana-20&ref=pd_sl_3f6jw1lrwd_b

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What a fun conversation I had with Katherine Fawcett, we talked about her favourite books growing up,  naturally we spoke about writing, we laughed a lot and I must say I was spellbound listening to one of her stories from her latest book  of short stories ' The Swan Suit' published by Douglas and McIntyre (2020)   the book is enchanting, a little wicked and truly magical.

Katherine Fawcett  who is a Squamish-based author. Her latest book, The Swan Suit  published by Douglas and McIntyre (2020) was a finalist for the ReLit award. She's also the author of The Little Washer of Sorrows  published by Thisaldown Press (2015), which was shortlisted for both The Sunburst Award and the ReLit, and A Whistler Bear Story (2010).

http://katherinefawcett.com
https://www.instagram.com/katherinefawcet/?hl=en
https://twitter.com/604fawcett?lang=en
https://douglas-mcintyre.com/collections/katherine-fawcett
https://www.amazon.ca/Swan-Suit-Katherine-Fawcett/dp/1771622601
https://www.facebook.com/Sea-to-Sky-String-Orchestra-1712643938952484/


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This was an intriguing and fun interview, and I’d be lying if I didn’t say I was a little intimidated. Daniel Paisner is an amazing writer and a well-established Ghost writer, New York magazine once called him “the world’s most prolific ghost,” 

 His bio reads, Daniel Paisner is a journalist, author and podcaster, with more than 70 books to his credit, including 17 New York Times best-sellers. He is the “voice” of Serena Williams, Steve Aoki, John Kasich, Whoopi Goldberg, Denzel Washington, Ray Lewis, Ron Darling, Gilbert Gottfried, Anthony Quinn . . .  

We talked a bit about his early childhood, books he grew up with, he spoke about what it is like being a ghostwriter, we did a little surfing, well not actually surfing, but  I learned  about a very wonderful organization called Surfers Healing.  We didn't get the time to talk about his podcast  As Told To, next time.  I loved hearing about his lates book Balloon Dog  published by Koehler Books.

For more information about Daniel Paisner and his works, click on the links below.  Thank you, Daniel for a fun and informative interview. All good wishes.


https://www.danielpaisner.com
 https://twitter.com/danielpaisner
 https://www.facebook.com/danielpaisnerbooks/
Amazon.com: https://www.amazon.com/Balloon-Dog-Daniel-Paisner/dp/164663697X/
Amazon.ca: https://www.amazon.ca/Balloon-Dog-Daniel-Paisner/dp/164663697X/
 https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/balloon-dog/9781646636983-item.html
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/balloon-dog-daniel-paisner/1141316478
https://vol1brooklyn.com/2022/05/22/sunday-stories-bet-youre-wondring-how-i-knew/
https://astoldto.libsyn.com

Below is more information about the organization Surfers Healing.💞
http://www.surfershealing.org

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The Path — A Bedtime Story by Heige S. Boehm

Tired of long workdays and city life, a woman takes three weeks off and heads alone into British Columbia’s beautiful Stein Valley.

What begins as a journey to clear her head becomes something altogether unexpected. Deep in the wilderness, among ancient cedars, mountain lakes, grizzly bears and the roar of the Stein River, she discovers that the forest may hold more than she ever imagined.

The Path is a story of escape, nature, danger, romance—and just a touch of magic.

Written and read by Heige S. Boehm for Bedtime Stories.


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https://bcparks.ca/explore/parkpgs/stein_val/
https://twitter.com/HeigeBoehm
https://www.heigeboehm.ca
https://www.instagram.com/awriterslife.co/
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http://ronsdalepress.com/authors/boehm-heige-s/
https://www.amazon.ca/Secrets-Shadows-Heige-S-Boehm/dp/1553805720
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Crystal D. Mayo is a Native New Yorker, an actress and storyteller. Her repertoire of writing spans from memoirs and poetry to children’s literature. Her literary contributions have been published in the Bronx Memoir Project Volumes 3, 4, and 5 III, IV and V. She most recently performed one of her memoirs entitled, "Teaching Me A Lesson" at the Caveat theater in NYC with the Generation Women ensemble. Additional anthologies she is a contributor to, are, The African Voices tribute to (en·tuh·zaa·kee shaang·gay ) Ntozake Shange  and Our Voices Our Stories, an anthology of Writings Advancing, Celebrating, Embracing and Empowering Girls and Women of Color through the National Girls and Women of Council Inc. Crystal’s latest memoir, Wicked Blues is featured in the Connecticut Literary Anthology 2021.

 Crystal holds a Masters in elementary education and is the founder and artistic director of My Daughter My Legacy. This entrepreneur’s mission statement is to empower youth to discover their voice and vision through literacy and the arts. She teaches students how to write and perform spoken word in addition to creating collaborative performance pieces.

When Crystal is not writing she serves as a mentor for the New York based organization, Girls Write Now, and can be seen performing her latest spoken word and writing prompts on the virtual mic stage of the NYC Writers Coalition.

https://crystalmayoinfo.wordpress.com

https://www.instagram.com/my_daughter_my_legacy/?hl=en

https://fabulouslyfiftywomenofcolor.com/tag/crystal-d-mayo/

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The Drive — A Bedtime Story by Heige S. Boehm

A cabdriver picks up a mysterious passenger late at night.
Something about the fare unsettles him, and before long he begins talking—about the choices he has made, the things he regrets, and the parts of his life he would rather forget.
The passenger listens. And the road ahead grows stranger.
The Drive is a dark, atmospheric short story about guilt, fear, and one unforgettable ride.

Written and read by Heige S. Boehm for Bedtime Stories.
https://twitter.com/HeigeBoehm
https://www.heigeboehm.ca
https://www.instagram.com/awriterslife.co/
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http://ronsdalepress.com/authors/boehm-heige-s/
https://www.amazon.ca/Secrets-Shadows-Heige-S-Boehm/dp/1553805720
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Bonnie Nish,   is  the Executive Director of Word Vancouver and Pandora’s Collective Outreach Society. Bonnie has a Masters in Arts Education from Simon Fraser University and a Ph.D. in Language and Literacy Education from UBC. Bonnie’s research interest is focused on how those recovering from trauma, specifically Mild Traumatic Brain Injuries (MTBI), are affected by the kind of care they receive in terms of recovery using poetic inquiry and life writing.  Bonnie has been widely published worldwide in such places as The Ottawa Arts Review, The Danforth Review, Haunted Waters Press, Illness Crisis & Loss Journal Volume 24 and The Blue Print Review.

Bonnie’s first book of poetry ‘Love and Bones’ was released by Karma Press.  Her next book “Concussion and Mild TBI: Not Just Another Headline” an anthology of concussion-related stories, was published by Lash and Associates in 2016. Bonnie is an Expressive Arts Therapist with a Certificate of Advanced Graduate Studies from the Vancouver Expressive Arts Therapy School,  where she is a faculty member. Her latest book, Cantata in Two Voices, co-written with Jude Neal was released by Ekstasis Editions. Bonnie is currently working on her next book.

https://www.pandorascollective.com 

https://www.wordvancouver.ca

https://bonnienish.com

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David Wiseman lived and worked in Oxfordshire most of his adult life but in recent years he has spent more time in Canada and became a permanent resident there in 2016. He currently lives on the unceded territories of the Mi'kmaq people in Nova Scotia in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia.

Lifelong interests include maps, reading, writing, travel and photography. And for the last 25 years, genealogy.

In 2009 in conjunction with close friend Neil Evans he produced The Further Bank, a memoir of photographic expeditions around the landscape of the upper Thames.  A Habit Of Dying was his first published full-length novel. It was followed in October 2012 by The Subtle Thief Of Youth – another mystery story but quite unconnected to the themes of A Habit Of Dying. In 2016 he returned to those themes with his third novel,The Death of Tommy Quick And Other Lies. 2019 saw the publication of Casa Rosa, a story with a different setting but returning to some familiar themes. He is currently working on a fifth novel, expected to be published in 2020/2021.

DJ Wiseman also edited and contributed to the Askance short story anthology Positional Vertigo published in October 2012. More recently his short fiction Unforgettable has won the Retreat West flash fiction award and Double Aspect won The Ghost Storyaward in autumn 2018. Mystery Weekly, Geist Magazine and Moose House featured stories in 2019 and he has been a finalist for several prizes including the Commonwealth Writers Short Story prize.

Further information, including other writing and outlines of family history, may be found on the author’s own web site.

http://djwiseman.ca
 https://askancepublishing.wordpress.com/authors/dj-wiseman/
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3012342.D_J_Wiseman
 https://www.lostcousins.com/newsletters2/dec19news.htm#CasaRosa
 http://www.theghoststory.com/double-aspect
 https://www.facebook.com/DJ-Wiseman-372292326195720
 https://djwiseman816374974.wordpress.com/2021/12/28/a-reading-year-2021/

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Tanya Bellehumeur-Allatt,  her essays and poems have appeared in Best Canadian Essays 2019 and Best Canadian Essays 2015, The New Quarterly, Grain, EVENT, Prairie Fire, Malahat Review, subTerrain, carte blanche, Antigonish Review, Room, The Masters Review Anthology X (forthcoming), Queens Quarterly (forthcoming), Syncopation Literary Journal (forthcoming) and The Toronto Star, among other publications. She holds an MA from McGill University and an MFA in Creative Writing from UBC. Tanya’s poetry collection Chaos Theories of Goodness. published with (Shoreline, Press will be out this coming spring ( 2022)  She is the author of Peacekeeper’s Daughter:  Middle East Memoir, it was published this fall by Thistledown Press, 2021 and nominated for the Quebec Writers’ Federation Mavis Gallant Award for Nonfiction. It is available wherever books are sold. 

Peacekeeper’s Daughter is the astonishing story of a French-Canadian military family stationed in Israel and Lebanon in 1982-1983. Told from the perspective of a twelve-year-old girl, Peacekeeper’s Daughter parachutes the reader into the Lebanese Civil War, the Palestinian crisis, and the wave of terrorism—including the bombing of the American Embassy—that ravaged Beirut at the height of the siege. This novelistic memoir moves from Jerusalem to Tiberius, from the disputed No-Man’s Land of the Golan Heights to Damascus, and on to Beirut by way of Tripoli, crossing borders that remain closed to this day.

It’s June, 1982. Twelve-year-old Tanya and her family are preparing to leave their home in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, to move to Israel and Lebanon, where her father will serve a one-year posting with the United Nations. While they’re packing up, Israel invades Lebanon. The President-elect of Lebanon is assassinated. Thousands of Palestinian men, women, and children are murdered at the Sabra-Shatila refugee camps in southern Beirut. The Middle East’s relative peace explodes into waves of violence.

It is in the midst of this maelstrom that the family arrives in Israel, and settles into an apartment. And one day Tanya and her brother walk to school; yet nothing is ordinary, nothing is familiar. The simple act of walking down the street is fraught with peril. Violence may come at them from any direction at any time.

Peacekeeper’s Daughter is a coming-of-age story, as well as an exploration of family dynamics, the shattering effects of violence and war—and the power of memory itself to reconcile us to our past selves, to the extraordinary places we have been and sights we have seen.

  https://tanyaallattbellehumeur.com/

https://thistledownpress.com/product/peacekeepers-daughter/

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59413349-peacekeeper-s-daughter?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=oM75u6RxFd&rank=1

https://www.cbc.ca/books/peacekeeper-s-daughter-1.6126403

https://mobile.twitter.c@TBellehumeurAom/tbellehumeura

https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/topics/mental-health-wellness/post-traumatic-stress-disorder.html#a1

https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/mental-health-support-in-bc/suicide-and-self-harm

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Christina Alagaratnam is a writer from South London.

She studied at the University of Westminster and graduated with a BA in English Literature & Creative Writing in 2014 and with an MA in Creative Writing the following year. Christina’s plays have been performed at the Brighton and London fringe festivals to four star reviews. She also had a performance of her play 'Face to Face' performed at Linklaters law firm, for a special diversity event.

Last year, Christina published a short story called ‘Sanctuary’ on Amazon Kindle. She also launched her own podcast called, ‘The Night Writer’ which can be found on Spotify, Anchor FM and YouTube.

https://chrissysnotebook.com/?fbclid=IwAR00xstVLdfiOlLCP88ymtQ8XKzSXv44Q2fnbfV9jP_UrCuBgafhRXCaGMA

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