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Adventures in Writing: Victoria Butler Book Prize
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Thoughts about writing, adventure and the great outdoors. Sometimes all three. Thursday, October 8, 2009. Victoria Butler Book Prize. Well, I've been a lazy, lazy blogger. But it's been that kind of a back-to-school month: little writing, less adventure. (Although I suppose having your family caught in an international media shit-storm counts as adventure.but more on that another day! Considering the per capita density of great authors in this town, I never assumed I'd get even short-listed for Fatal Tide.
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Adventures in Writing: January 2010
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Thoughts about writing, adventure and the great outdoors. Sometimes all three. Monday, January 11, 2010. Like a stopped clock, even a botched government gets it right twice a term. While the B.C. Liberals are suffocating the province's artists with savage cutbacks (behind a veil of Olympic hoopla), I will give them credit for two decent moves: the carbon tax (in opposition to which the NDP impaled themselves last election) and the new ban on talking and texting while driving. Come join me at.
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Adventures in Writing: August 2009
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Thoughts about writing, adventure and the great outdoors. Sometimes all three. Wednesday, August 19, 2009. Stop Me Before I Subscribe Again! Hi, my name is David, and I'm a magaholic.". Those are my first words to students in my second-year magazine writing class. It's just a cheeky way of acknowledging my passion for the subject and my hope that some of them will come to share my obsession with magazines by semester's end. Chickadee, Owl, The Electric Company,. During my spotty-faced D&D years),. My dis...
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Adventures in Writing: February 2009
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Thoughts about writing, adventure and the great outdoors. Sometimes all three. Monday, February 2, 2009. Ride to the Reader Redux. It's been a crazy busy January, so it was a relief to have the excuse (and the sunny afternoon) two weekends ago to go for a bike ride. Richard Pickard, UVic prof and lit blogger. Invited me to ride up to his home and bring a. Copy of Fatal Tide. I had a great ride afterwards and was in such good humour that I stopped by Oak Bay Bikes. Either that or curb my velociphilia.
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Adventures in Writing: Hang ups
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Thoughts about writing, adventure and the great outdoors. Sometimes all three. Monday, January 11, 2010. Like a stopped clock, even a botched government gets it right twice a term. While the B.C. Liberals are suffocating the province's artists with savage cutbacks (behind a veil of Olympic hoopla), I will give them credit for two decent moves: the carbon tax (in opposition to which the NDP impaled themselves last election) and the new ban on talking and texting while driving. Come join me at.
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Adventures in Writing: October 2009
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Thoughts about writing, adventure and the great outdoors. Sometimes all three. Thursday, October 8, 2009. Victoria Butler Book Prize. Well, I've been a lazy, lazy blogger. But it's been that kind of a back-to-school month: little writing, less adventure. (Although I suppose having your family caught in an international media shit-storm counts as adventure.but more on that another day! Considering the per capita density of great authors in this town, I never assumed I'd get even short-listed for Fatal Tide.
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Adventures in Writing: Ride to the Readers #1
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Thoughts about writing, adventure and the great outdoors. Sometimes all three. Friday, June 6, 2008. Ride to the Readers #1. I rode to my first reader this morning. Okay, it wasn't exactly an epic journey: let's say two minutes, three tops, across campus. I met with Don Bailey, the head of the. Humanities, Fine Arts and Professional Writing Cooperative Education Program at UVic. (He's the less reflective one in the photo.) Don has a new thriller novel out— The Good Lie. I'm not sure if a kayaking store w...
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Adventures in Writing: Adventures of Greg
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Thoughts about writing, adventure and the great outdoors. Sometimes all three. Tuesday, November 10, 2009. I got a lovely (and unexpected) note from. Who recently read Fatal Tide. Greg knows more than most people about the highs and lows of outdoor adventure, endurance races and the other themes of my book. He is a multiple Ironman finisher (and was at a fatal race I described in the book) who is now on an epic journey to try to pedal-boat across the Pacific Ocean. Thanks, Greg. And safe travels on y...
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Creative Nonfiction Collective: January 2009
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The virtual home of Canadian writers of creative nonfiction. The Creative Nonfiction Collective is a non-profit organization of Canadian writers founded to explore the potential and to debate the issues that define. Our rapidly growing genre. Join the CNFC Listserv. 2009 CNFC Conference (in Banff). Tuesday, January 27, 2009. 2009 CNFC Conference (in Banff). April 24-26, 2009. Location: The Banff Centre. Our keynote speaker will be Charles Foran. RICHLER WAS FUNNY: WHY CAN'T YOU BE? FRIDAY, APRIL 24.
