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Book Love
I had a close encounter of the book kind the other day. UBC Security was selling off all the unclaimed lost and found stuff and I saw this old book in the pile. I picked it up and it was a 1908 copy of...
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I’ll marry a lovely bookworm
This year, I spent St. Patrick’s Day with friends, drinking copious amounts of wine. It got me to thinking about St. Paddy’s Days Past. St. Patrick’s Day of 2009 was particularly memorable. My then...
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How I Got My Confidence Back, or The Story of Winning The New Quarterly’s...
When I found out that my essay “The Wrong Way” had won The New Quarterly‘s Edna Staebler Personal Essay Contest, I was ecstatic, but also sworn to secrecy. Considering that the piece was published in...
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#TBT: A Modest Economic Proposal, Fringe, December 2011
So many pieces of writing are published in small literary magazines, both in print and online, only to slowly fade from view. A couple days ago I checked one of my links to a piece I’d written for the...
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Andreas Schroeder: The (CNF) Godfather
Here’s a great article from The Globe and Mail about UBC’s respected Creative Nonfiction Professor, Andreas Schroeder. It is entitled, “Andreas Schroeder: The godfather BC’s non-fiction boom.”Filed...
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10 Ways to Annoy a Poet (and other writers of “less marketable” literature)
Sierra Skye Gemma:Hilarious. That is all. Originally posted on PRISM international: Last month, Rebecca Makkai wrote a gut-busting post over on the Ploughshares blog, entitled 14 Ways to Tick Off a...
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How to Annoy a Writer, Part II
Sierra Skye Gemma:In which I explain how to annoy elderly women writers… Originally posted on PRISM international: In recent e-phemera offerings, I shared Ruth Daniell‘s 10 Ways to Annoy a Poet and a...
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Finger-banging: free from Plenitude Magazine
Do you ever wish you could know me a little better? Do you ever think to yourself, “You know, Sierra could over-share a bit MORE than she already does”? Well, you are in luck, friends! Plenitude...
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