NEXT BIG THING
I was flattered to learn that Jane Silcott had chosen to pass me the cyber-baton in the Next Big Thing. Jane’s work was recommended to me by two mutual friends whose writing [...]
I was flattered to learn that Jane Silcott had chosen to pass me the cyber-baton in the Next Big Thing. Jane’s work was recommended to me by two mutual friends whose writing [...]
You can forget how beautiful Quebec City is. And then you go back and it wraps itself around you: all that textured stone, the Plains of Abraham, the river, the tall European-looking [...]
ONE MORE DAY! Because my Maxine photo contest closed on a long weekend, I've extended it slightly. New and final deadline: Tuesday 3 September 2013, 5 pm Newfoundland time. All you have [...]
Winterset in Summer Literary Festival 9–11 August 2013 Last weekend was my first experience of Winterset, where I’d been invited to participate in the New Voices panel. Three days of readings, discussions, [...]
In June I went to the EAC’s annual conference in Halifax. It’s the first time they’ve held a conference this far east: good work, Nova Scotians! Preamble Rhododendrons were [...]
If you don't know about my summer reading contest, head over to www.clairewilkshire.com/contest for details on how to win. All entries must be in by 31 August 2013.
I often read several books at once, a page or two here and there, so it can take me a long time to finish them. I’ve been working through Vladimir Nabokov’s Speak, [...]
A friend asked me recently about all. Her sentence was going to run something like this: All I wanted was my blue bathrobe, a toothbrush, and the fuzzy slippers with the sheep [...]
I’ve never blogged before. I’m going to try it. I’d tell you what it will be about, only I don’t know yet. Nerdy wordy things, I expect. You can subscribe if you [...]