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Remembrance Day. Is it enough to remember those who lost their lives fighting in the First World War? Sharon Johnston’s novel, Matrons and Madams (Dundurn 2015), asks us to consider what happened to...
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Home, yet not home
A new writer for a new year. Louise Ells was studying in the UK while I was living in London, and that’s how we “met”, although so far only online. Because I liked her written voice, I invited her to...
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Jane Christmas made the switch from journalism to books while still in Canada, and has continued to write from her home abroad, which has been in the suburbs of Bristol since 2017. Her memoir about...
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What makes a house a home? Review of Open House by Jane Christmas.
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I met Marius Kociejowski at his flat in London, UK, but learned about him from a journalist in Ottawa, Roberta Walker. That meeting evolved into the interview, Casting Himself on a Breeze (2016). This...
View ArticleA Writer’s Christmas in Wales
A Writer’s Christmas in Wales by Katie Munnik “I can never remember whether it snowed for six days and six nights when I was twelve or whether it snowed for twelve days and twelve nights when I was...
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Review of The Aerialists by Katie Munnik (The Borough Press, HarperCollins 2022). Reviewed by Debra Martens. The recent shooting down of four balloons in North American skies has made balloons a hot...
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Canadian Writers Abroad used to announce newsy items on its Facebook page, but now Meta has made that difficult… Congratulations to Sarah Bernstein, last night’s winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize...
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I have tried before to write about Emily Carr’s mysterious illness of hysteria and her time in the East Anglia Sanatorium in England. She was in England to study art, which she did in London, Boxford...
View ArticleHome, yet not home
A new writer for a new year. Louise Ells was studying in the UK while I was living in London. Because I liked her written voice, I invited her to write for Canadian Writers Abroad. And she has. Below...
View ArticleCrowning the Virus: New Skills for the Pandemic
Jane Christmas made the switch from journalism to books while still in Canada, and has continued to write from her home abroad, which has been in the suburbs of Bristol since 2017. Her memoir about...
View ArticleFinding the Perfect Home
What makes a house a home? Review of Open House by Jane Christmas.
View ArticleMarius Kociejowski
I met Marius Kociejowski at his flat in London, UK, but learned about him from a journalist in Ottawa, Roberta Walker. That meeting evolved into the interview, Casting Himself on a Breeze (2016). This...
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