Spring checklists!

It’s always a slow return from the deep freeze of winter, but this year’s spring in Toronto is especially delightful! I like to document my love affair with spring in checklist form and so does Matt Galloway from CBC Radio’s Metro Morning! The Toronto Star even featured the lists (and most significantly, the glorious 20 degree…

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A Canadian Screen Award!

Holy smokes! I’ve won a Canadian Screen Award (in the Best Cross-Platform Project: Fiction catgeory) for my work on the digital series Played: Interference!

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Where The Nights Are Twice As Long

I am so honoured to have my writing included in Where The Nights Are Twice As Long: Love Letters of Canadian Poets, published by Goose Lane Editions. A whole book of love letters! Glory be! More on the book here, and even more on their Tumblr (including some city-focused love letters!)

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An LZV love letter tote bag in “Strange Material”

I am beyond thrilled to have a love letter (in tote bag and embroidery form!) in Leanne Prain‘s new book, “Strange Material.” It’s a stunner of a book, exploring storytelling through textiles. More on the book: The book includes chapters on various aspects of textile storytelling, from “Textiles of Protest, Politics, and Power” to “The Fabric…

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North north north + love love love

I’ve just returned from a week in the north. There was so much light, I couldn’t bear to sleep and miss any moment of the glorious sun. Everything about it was incredible. To mark the 10th year of The Love Lettering Project, I collaborated with DreamCatcher Mentoring for a three-city tour of Canada’s North. Supported in part by…

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Harbour Grace in The Varsity

Last August I went to Newfoundland (a research trip generously funded by Access Copyright Foundation!) to work on a novel about a woman who is in love with Amelia Earhart. It was one of the most prolific writing stretches I’ve ever had, and one of the best trips I’ve ever been on. To my delight, a…

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The Southbrook Poetica wine series

I am thrilled to have a poem, “Held Still” on a bottle of Southbrook’s 2011 Chardonnay! More about it here! It just launched last weekend at the Chardonnay festival in Niagara. Their Poetica series pairs wine + poetry (and really, is there a better combination?!). Jim Cuddy’s been featured, and Sarah Slean, Karen Solie and…

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The Love Lettering Project’s 5-city UK tour

I’m not sure I could’ve dreamed up a more incredible June. I took The Love Lettering Project to the UK for a 5-city tour, where I asked folks in London, Brighton, Bristol, Liverpool and Nottingham what they loved about where they lived. It was extraordinarily inspiring. More about all of the amazing love letters folks…

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