The Tony & Herb Rainbow Award + Day 139

The Tony & Herb Rainbow Award + Day 139

I can finally announce today that I am the second-ever recipient of the Tony & Herb Rainbow Award through the Saskatchewan Foundation for the Arts! This award came in last Friday, and is a whopping $5000 to support me at this moment in my writing career. I can say...

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Reflections on Ciel et Bois

Reflections on Ciel et Bois

think on how the city speaks to itself / graffiti tags singing veins in subway lines these concrete lungs, lit by streetlamps / billow(ing) ancient cedar lines imprinted onto playdough run adjacent along delineated / rows leaves, on their march, move by even cement,...

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Exploring Land, Place, and Home: Five Writing Prompts

Exploring Land, Place, and Home: Five Writing Prompts

As a Saskatchewan writer, what is our relationship to the land, to place — where is home? It’s a question I’ve been asking myself a lot lately, for a host of reasons. The first reason being winter, of course. Many writers find solitude in the written word during the...

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Day 111: The Unnamed Woman

Day 111: The Unnamed Woman

Day 111 - A Snippet Once a year, the small cafe with steel countertops serves a menagerie of pie; Jack Daniels and sticky walnut, lemon with meringue that beads to the roof of your mouth, pumpkin with an ever-so-crunchy lard crust; all in celebration of a day just for...

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