Flash Fiction contest annoucement
I'm excited to announce that I'm judging this flash fiction contest sponsored by Communitech. Imagine for us the future of the...
Memories
I am cleaning out the storeroom. Boxes of paper like one of those sand dunes from which archeologists pull papyrus. A piece of art I...
Secret Novel #5 is almost done!
Secret Novel #5 is almost due and almost done. Last step is reading it aloud to my kid. If you need us this weekend we’ll be in the...
Here they are, our winners of the Canada 150 writing contest.
Ready for your drumroll? Last fall, as part of Canada 150th birthday celebrations, the CBC asked students from coast to coast to coast to...
The student writing shortlist!
Last fall, CBC Books asked students from coast to coast to give us a glimpse of the great Canadian novel of the year 2167, presenting how...
Reading for First Page Challenge
So all this week I've been reading entries for CBC First Page Student Writing Challenge, in which writers in grades 7 - 12 imagine the...
The Murder List.
So my twelve-year-old daughter (the one known online as Ninja Princess Scientist) and I are working on a book together. That is, she had...
A wool-carding draft
So! In November I finished a major edit of Secret Book #5. Here is how I do it – or how I did it this time. As of the end of October,...
Storytelling and our energy future
So recently, an unlikely thing happened: I got tapped to help shape the future of my country’s energy policy. Through storytelling....
Pavlovsk Station
Outside of Leningrad, digging up potatoes, are scientists. It is 1941. The Germans closing in. The scientists, men and women, are from...