Tag: poetry
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summer experiment
From attending book events to some new ideas in the works, it’s been a busy couple of weeks! I attended the Celebration of Emerging Writers event, which featured winners of the Nova Scotia Writes prize and mentors and mentees from the Alastair MacLeod program. A highlight was hearing my fellow writing workshopper Nadia Aumeerally read…
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it’s a major award!
I’m not the kind of person who wins things. I think I won a raffle once when I was a kid for this giant Easter egg cake. My Dad and I wrote a simple melody on the piano when I was five, and I won a trophy for that. But as the years wore on,…
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coffee exchange
H. is in town for the holidays, so we met up for coffee, like we usually do. We talked about writing, like we usually do. We have much in common: from the similar way we wrapped our gifts for each other, to the number of rejection emails we’ve received recently, to our marriages still feeling…
brittni in ink 