Let's get ready to Reading Rumble
Local friends! Join me on September 8th at our local library for a loquacious and lettered literary trivia smackdown, the Reading Rumble!...
The Great Bow Road Trip
So this summer we did a batty crazy thing. We borrowed a seven-year-old Prius from my mom and set out with our two tweenagers to drive...
"Please."
The newest novelist at my house is the ten-year-old known online as Owl. She's needing her creative space today.
Happy Canada Day List!
So, for Canada Day, the CBC is debuting a list of 100 writers in Canada who are making an impact. And to my surprise and delight, I'm on...
Let's get ready to (Reading) RUMBLE.
My local library, the Kitchener Public Library, and several of our local literacy organizations are throwing the doors open on a new fun...
Happy Pride
I love seeing Scorpion Rules on this list of LGBTQ books for teenagers. It's such a fresh list too. Apart from Aristotle and Dante,...
Meet up for kids' book creators, Guelph
Children's book writers and illustrators living in Guelph, Kitchener, Waterloo, Stratford, London, Hamilton: HEADS UP! CANSCAIP is a...
Winners of the "We Shall Arrive Soon" Flash Fiction contest
Avid readers (hi Mom!) will remember that I got to judge the "We Shall Arrive Soon" flash fiction contest, which was part of a major...
Best. Canadian. Poetry.
I just got the page proofs so I guess it's official. After almost twenty years of publishing poetry, I've finally had a poem selected...