“15 Innovative Ways (Big and Small) To Innovate” (The Globe and Mail’s March 2013 Report on Business) looks beyond the ‘flash of inspiration’ to examine how certain companies have managed to stimulate ideas and bring them to successful fruition. Here are just three of the pointers that instantly caught my attention. Continue reading
Pandas and Authors – are they necessary?
In yesterday’s Globe and Mail article “Hilary Mantel vs. ‘plastic’ Kate Middleton: We missed the point – and Mantel was right,” Kate Taylor reports that author Hilary Mantel “comes to the conclusion that royals are like pandas, fun to look at but unnecessary.”
Are pandas unnecessary? Continue reading
Mind the Gap! a workshop on narrative energy
Canadian Authors Association, Montreal Branch presents:
MIND THE GAP!
a workshop on creating narrative energy
with Susi Lovell
Wednesday 20 March 2013, 6.15-8.15 p.m.
Thomas More Institute, 3405 Atwater
Looking to breathe fresh life into your writing? Into your writerly self? The fun exercises in this workshop will encourage you to experiment with creating energy and momentum in your stories, memoir and essays. Equally useful in new work or revisions. The workshop is a follow-up to last fall’s session but will offer an entirely new set of strategies that require no previous experience. Please come prepared to write. For all levels.
Susi Lovell came to writing after a lifetime of physical theatre, choreography and teaching movement. Her short stories have appeared in Fiddlehead, Grain, Kudzu Review, Blue Lake Review, Shark Reef and others. She has written on dance for the Montreal Gazette and has an MA in Contemporary Dance (UQAM) and an MFA in Creative Writing (Lesley University, Cambridge, MA).
Cost: Non Members $12. Members $7
Please call or email to register: kenkal60@yahoo.ca or 438-876-7743