KIRA: an intense creative experience
By Roger Moore
On March 2, I was informed that I had been selected to participate in the first of the three one-month KIRA (Kingsbrae International Residency for Artists) residencies planned for this inaugural year (2017). My residency ran from June 1-28, with other sessions planned for July and August. Four artists completed our initial cohort: Carlos Carty, a pan-piper from Peru, two painters, Anne Wright from Ottawa and Ruby Allan from Fredericton, and Elise Muller, a sculptor from Muskoka.
Read More»Walking through the Ashes in Eden
by Kellie Underhill
I went to Sackville in April to hear a talk given by a friend who attended a week long workshop in Colorado last year by the author of Women Who Run With the Wolves.
I have been out of the creative scene for years now, and honestly I wasn’t feeling any urge or pressure to reconnect with it. I went to this presentation because a) my friend invited me and I wanted to be there to support her and b) it was happening in Sackville, where I lived for two years, really miss and will seize any opportunity to visit.
Read More»Warming up with A Winter’s Tale
A three-inch binder sits on the shelf above my writing desk, stuffed full of hopeful notes on different aspects of grammar, poetry, writing for the screen, writing for children, young adult , romance and historical novels. My inspiration wall keeps inspirational snippets collected from here and there in safekeeping. Most of these wise nuggets were all gleaned from ten years’ worth of attendance at weekend writing workshops, squeezed in between all the busiest parts of my life.
I admit it: I’m a workshop junkie.
Read More»Winners of 2016 mentorship program for emerging writers
The Writers’ Federation of New Brunswick (WFNB) is pleased to announce the winners of its mentorship program to support the next generation of New Brunswick authors.
The federation selected poets Sandra Bunting of Burnt Church (mentor) and Melanie Craig-Hansford of Erbs Cove (mentee) and fiction writers Gerard Collins of Cassidy Lake (mentor) and Andrea Kikuchi from Saint John (mentee).
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