Tag: 2014

  • Deflating and Energizing on Day 3 of SIWC !

    Highlights from Day 3 of SIWC ! Okay, so two full days of activity at a conference can take its toll. At the beginning of the third day, people came ambling into the ballroom looking a bit like…           Monaghan‘s bacon trick did its job to get us all there (eventually), and then a hard-hitting keynote…

  • Brain Purge on Day 2 of SIWC !

    Highlights from Day 2 of SIWC ! Okay, so today at SIWC, I got just as bombarded by great information, amazing people and presenters, and surprising encounters as I did yesterday, maybe even more. But I found out the secret for dealing with it effectively. It’s called a … More about that later… here are…

  • Semi-finalist in Mary Ballard Chapbook Contest (Casey Shay Press)

              Ok, for the past month I’ve been vacationing in Southeast Asia–Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore–and I just got back to Vancouver last night and already I had some good news waiting for me…           I made the SEMI-FINALS for the Mary Ballard Poetry Chapbook Prize, put on by Casey Shay Press! This is a BIG…