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Up Next For Camouflage Complex!

Jul 27, 2022

Steven Bélanger, Betsy Warland, Tabitha Brasso-Ernst Six years in the making, Camouflage Complex: The Art of Deception had its trial run performance June 11th at the downtown Vancouver Public...

Susan Crean Award for Nonfiction – 26 Days To Go!

Jul 22, 2022

Submit a maximum of 10 pages, not exceeding 2700 words, of your original, unpublished (print or online) writing such as memoir, creative essay, autobiography- in .doc, .docx, or .pdf format....

Prose Giveaway Winner Announcement: Karen Schauber

Jun 26, 2022

Prose Giveaway Winner Announcement: Karen Schauber Congratulations to Karen Schauber, whose name was drawn for the prose consult giveaway! She will receive a 2-hour free consult with me to work...

Introducing Real Vancouver Writing School

Jun 17, 2022

NEW PROJECT, NEW EVENT Introducing Real Vancouver Writing School! Real Vancouver Writing School is a special project of Real Vancouver Writers’ Series, a registered non-profit society. We provide...

2-HOUR FREE PROSE CONSULT GIVEAWAY!

Jun 14, 2022

I'm excited to announce a prose consult giveaway, open to subscribers to my newsletter. To be eligible, you either need to be a current subscriber or consent to subscribing to the newsletter. One...

Camouflage Complex: the Art of Deception

Apr 8, 2022

I'm so eager to share a new project that I've been working on that is more timely than ever. Camouflage Complex: The Art of Deception is an one act opera based on my book, Oscar of Between: A Memoir...

Livestream of Bloodroot Book Launch

Nov 29, 2021

Photo Credit: Charlotte Nip In case you missed it, here is the Livestream performance of the Bloodroot book launch, courtesy of the Massy Art Society Facebook page. https://fb.watch/9ubERItsBX/

Invitation to Bloodroot Book Launch

Nov 18, 2021

Hello writer friends, I'd like you to know about a livestream performance launch for the second edition of my 2000 memoir Bloodroot:Tracing the Untelling of Motherloss. This new edition includes a...