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My article on eating local organic food is soon to be published in The Source health and wellness magazine.
I performed a poetry reading at the Seahorse Tavern on June 12, 2007.
I did the reading in Ozzie's honor. Our dear beloved dog has cancer in the lungs. We are all hoping for Ozzie and love him dearly.
I performed a poetry reading at the Seahorse tavern on April 3, 2007.
I did a great job reading and I liked the other readings, too. I was funded by the League of Canadian Poets.
I published a collection of poems in my book Metamorphosis this summer. It's available at local bookstores.
My article on elderly people and pet therapy appears in the Fall issue of The Source.
I performed a poetry reading at the One World Cafe.
Dave Rimmington interviewed me twice for the CKDU Poetry Show which aired July 2006
An article about guinea pigs appears in Pets Quarterly this summer.
I attended a one-week writing workshop in July 2006 and in July 1996, both on scholarship.
I studied Fiction Writing Basics with Janet Mcnaughton this winter.
I studied Historical Writing Fiction with Martha Attema on Nov., 3, 2005
I studied a freelance writing course hosted by Sandra Phinney on Feb., 4, 2006
I printed a letter to the editor in the Chronicle Herald in January 2005.
I had a poem accepted on the Poets Against the War web site in 2004
I was printed in the Saint Mary's University English Society anthology, Cardhouses, in 2000.
I won the Joyce Marshall Hsia Memorial Poetry Award on April 29, 1998.
i was published in the National Library of Poetry in 1992.
I performed poety readings at a variety of venues including the Cafe Ole Open Mike Series, Cafe Mokka Open Mike Series in 1996, the Economy Shoe Shop Shoestring Series in June 1997 and at Word on the Street.
I was involved in a National Youth Committee newsletter organization for young Canadians across the country.
I won the GD Hatfield Award in 1993 in high school for the student with the most outstanding ability in the field of creative writing.
I was published in the Queen Elizabeth high school anthology Elizabethan in 1991.
Links of interest
Writers Federation of Nova Scotia- www.writers.ns.ca
League of canadian poets www. poets.ca
Public Lending Rights Association of canada www.plr.com
Canadian Copyrights of Canada www. accesscopyright.ca
Member and founder of Quivering Quills writing group
Publish Yourself. www.publishyourself.ca
Biff Mitchell www.biffmitchell.com
Halifax Public Libraries www.halifaxpubliclibraries.ca
Association of Canadian Publishers. http://www.publishers.ca
Writers Union of Canada www.writersunion.ca
Testimonials of my writing
You have a keen eye for earthy and realistic detail.
Atlantic Writing competition
I won a writing award in high school for the student with the most outstanding ability in the field of creative writing.
On my Vampire novel-
An energetic spin on the classic vampire genre with a bit of Maritime salt thrown in.
The author has laid down the bones of an imaginitive and potentially transporting story.
Atlantic Writing competition
You have the ability to fashion words
Brian Bowser
You have the commitment and the potential to become an established artist
Nova Scotia Talent Trust
William Kowalski-
"I've had a chance to read your sample pages. My general impression is that you have a great deal of potential as a writer. You are imaginative and creative. I'm sure you could have a career as a novelist if you wanted to. The secret is to never give up writing, no matter what.
This is a pic of my dorm room at the Maritime Writers Workshop, at the Lady Beaverbrook Residence. They say that Stephen king visited a writing desk where a previous equally famous writer wrote, had a heart attack and died. Rudyard Kipling?
See the scribbled notes, phone for 911, the laptop, mousepad, any hint of literary greatness?
Live fast, write fast, live long-hopefully
The room is a mess but messiness is a sign of creative genius.
