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A WRITER'S BLOG
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Recent Posts
- Poetry & Perception
- Baseball: the national pastime
- Living with Dying
- Writing as a spiritual path and an exercise in trust
- Venice
- Writing into Life
- Timing and the Creative Process
- Paintings
- On Teaching Writing
- An Agent Unveiled
- A Vacation from a Vacation
- On Writing Memoir
- An Ode to the Imagination
- Morocco and The Spider’s Web
- On Revising
- On Blogging
- Free Children’s Stories (Audio) from “The Story Shoppe”
- Don’t book first class on Spain’s Renfe or RailEurope
- Death as a vacation
- On Avatar
- Puerto Vallarta
- Walking the Labyrinth
- On Being a Canadian
- On Not Being Perfect
- On Not Publishing a Book
- On Getting an Agent
- Making Lemonade: How To Transform Rejection
- The Writer as Magician
- Writing for Love Or Money
- My new muse
- Fairy Tales
- Thirteen
- Turkey: Under Construction
- Partial knee replacement
- A response to John Crowley’s The Solitudes
- Recent Poetry
- Graphic Novels
- CURVA PELIGROSA
- FREEFALL: A Divine Comedy
- FLING
- Istanbul
Archives
BOOKS
- All This Lily Iona MacKenzie’s poetry collection All This
- Lily Iona MacKenzie's book launch of All This Lily Iona MacKenzie introduces All This and reads some of the poems.
Free Children's Stories (Audio) from "The Story Shoppe"
- Free Children's Stories (Audio) from "The Story Shoppe" Please feel free to download these audio files. They contain children’s stories that Gayle Mills and I created for “The Story Shoppe,” a radio program that aired on Marin County’s KTIM several years ago.
Websites of interest
- Amarillo Bay A great online literary magazine
- An interview with Jonathan Galassi, Farrar, Straus and Giroux This interview with Jonathan Galassi, president and publisher of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, holds out hope for all of us writers that there are still editors/publishers who are not just in the business for money.
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- Editorial Ass: a great editor's blog
- The Write Room
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Blog Stats
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Excerpts from novels
Published essays/stories/poetry
- 99 poems for the 99 percent These are poems written to support the Occupy movement.
- All This Published poetry
- Askiwina: A Cree World Review
- Brossard blurs lines between genres in Intimate Journal Review
- Deep Chords Reflection on poetry’s importance
- Don't Leave Your Vacation To Chance Travel piece
- Expanding Our Vision Reflections on writing poetry
- Flutter Review of poetry collection
- From Cohen to Carson: The Poet's Novel in Canada Review
- Hornet Redefines Presence Article
- Imprint and Casualties: Poets on Women and Language, Reinventing Memory Review
- Mundus Imaginalis: Reflections after Seeing Magritte
- Prince Edward Island: A Biker's Heaven Travel piece
- Resurrection Short story
- Soul of the City Article on Calgary
- Spirit of the Law Short story
- The Call Reflective essay. (This short piece won third place in the Portia Steele short short awards.)
- The Dream Catcher Short story
- The Innocent Eye Critical essay on poetry
- The Island of Ariadne Reflective essay
- The Real Story Reflection on writing fiction
- Troy XI & I Try To Seize the Past Published poetry
- Wild Words: Essays on Alberta Literature Review
- Will Work for Food Reflective essay on writing
- Wolves a poem
- Writers Be(a)ware Advice to writers seeking an agent
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