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Writing The City: 8-week writing workshops at Parkdale Library
Do you love Parkdale? Do you love to write? I’m thrilled to be offering two *free* 8-week writing workshops at Parkdale Library where we will find our creative voices, inspired by Parkdale. Adult workshops: Wednesdays: 6:30-8pm (Oct. 4, 11, 18, 25 / Nov. 1, 8, 15, 22) Youth workshops (age 13-19): Thursdays: 4:30-6pm (drop-in spaces available…
Read MoreSoaking up all things summer on CBC
I’m officially solar-powered, and I love summer so even though it has finally arrived this year, in mid-September, it’s perfect weather for picnicking and bike riding and eating your weight in watermelon. I got to bike down to the CBC building last Friday just as the sun was rising and chat live on the radio with…
Read More“Lake Ontario” in Watermarks: Writing by Lido Lovers and Wild Swimmers
It is no secret that I love swimming. And writing about swimming combines two of my very favourite things in the entire world, so imagine my delight when swimmer and writer Tanya Shadrick put out a call for swim writing on Twitter! Watermarks: Writing by Lido Lovers and Wild Swimmers is a collaboration between Pells Pool,…
Read MoreTravelling Exhibition: Massey College and Gorlitz, Germany
I’m so thrilled that my hand-bound letterpressed Amelia Earhart book in the Travelling Exhibition will be on display at Massey College this summer! 4 Devonshire Pl, Toronto, ON 10am-5pm, Monday-Friday And if you happen to find yourself in Görlitz, Germany, in September, the project will travel to the public library exhibition space at the print and book studio druckfeld. The exhibition, HIMMELSZEITEN…
Read MoreMy love of Lake Ontario in published form
I love swimming. Outdoors, mostly, though I spend most of the year swimming indoors. And I love writing. Needless to say, it’s hard to keep the two apart. Cue my delight when I received a note from the incredible Tanya Shadrick, the 2016 writer-in-residence for Pells Pool , the oldest outdoor freshwater public pool in the…
Read More“Something sensible and solid” in the Toronto Star
This weekend my short story about Grace Marks (of Alias Grace fame) was published in Lynn Crosbie‘s Real Crime series in the Toronto Star. I rarely write short stories, and writing a story about a subject Margaret Atwood has already tackled was, um, daunting to say the least, but it was so much fun to dive into…
Read MoreThe David Suzuki Foundation: Love letters to nature
This spring, I had the great honour of partnering with the David Suzuki Foundation for their 30×30 Nature Challenge where we asked people to write love letters to nature. We kicked off the month with a public event, and ever since then, I’ve been floored by the response. I’d scroll through Instagram and Twitter daily (using: #30x30challenge and #lovenature)…
Read MoreMy deep love of snow pants on CBC Radio’s Metro Morning
I fully believe that winter is 75% for hibernating and 25% for winter picnics/tobogganing/snow ball fights/cross country skiing and walking about in the snow. Some people have a signature scent, I have a signature sound: that wonderful swish. Listen to my ode to snow pants on CBC’s Metro Morning here!
Read MoreThe University of Toronto Magazine poetry contest
This summer I had the great pleasure of being on the judging panel for the 2015 University of Toronto’s Poetry contest. I read piles and piles of submissions in the backyard, in the sunshine, and then met with the other esteemed judges, George Elliot Clarke and Robert McGill and we talked about poetry for hours…
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