Lily Iona MacKenzie's Blog, page 12
August 21, 2023
STEPHANIE COWELL joins me on my blog today. Her take on being a writer is “you are a bit like an archeologist digging a city”
Stephanie Cowell has been an opera singer, balladeer, founder of Strawberry Opera and other arts venues including a Renaissance festival and an outdoor arts series in NYC. She is the author of Nicholas Cooke, The Physician of London, The Players: a novel of the young Shakespeare, Marrying Mozart, and Claude & Camille: a novel of …
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August 14, 2023
Join me in writing about life’s underside!
Writing is such a part of my day that if I don’t get to it, I’m constantly distracted, as if I have a lover I’m thinking about. It’s like a siren’s call, pulling me away. My husband Michael notices it. He comments on me seeming drifty. He’s right. I’m not fully there. The discipline of …
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August 7, 2023
Thanks to Sara Hart for interviewing me on her podcast: Born to Write with Lily Iona MacKenzie
Thanks to Sara Hart for interviewing me on her podcast PRIME SPARK WITH SARA HART and whose blog offers encouragement to women over 55. Here is the link to the interview: https://www.spreaker.com/user/1021019.... In it, I discuss my path to publication and other writing challenges with Sara.
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July 31, 2023
Dreams as source of inspiration
It’s no surprise that I’ve been thinking a good deal about dreams and the role they play in our lives. Why? Shanti Arts Press released my latest poetry collection on June 27 titled California Dreaming. And it will be publishing my hybrid memoir, Dreaming Myself Into Old Age: One Woman’s Search for Meaning on September …
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July 24, 2023
Meet Regal House author Martha Anne Toll, who explains how she handled negative editing advice for her debut novel THE THREE MUSES!
Martha Anne Toll’s debut novel, THREE MUSES, published by Regal House Publishing in September 2022, was shortlisted for the Gotham Book Prize and won the Petrichor Prize for Finely Crafted Fiction. THREE MUSES has received glowing tributes since it came out. Toll writes fiction, essays, and book reviews, and reads anything that’s not nailed down. She brings …
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July 17, 2023
Joe Safdie joins me on my blog today to discuss the complications of being a writer. Join us!
Joe Safdie has been lurking in and around the poetry world for 50 years; his first chapbook, Wake Up the Panthers, was published in 1974, while he was still an undergraduate at UC Santa Cruz. His ninth book, published last year by Spuyten Duyvil, is The Secular Divine, a hybrid chapbook of poems and an …
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July 3, 2023
Join me in celebrating the 8th birthday of my first novel FLING!’S release, a wildly comic romp on mothers, daughters, art, and travel!
My novel Fling, a wildly comic romp on mothers, daughters, art, and travel, was published in July 2015. What happens in Fling? Feather, an aging hippie, returns to her Calgary home to help her mother, Bubbles, celebrate her 90th birthday. Bubbles has received mail from the dead letter office in Mexico City, asking her to pick up her mother’s ashes, …
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June 26, 2023
Thanks to guest author Victoria Strauss for her important piece on Copyright Trolls: All writers can be their victims!
When The Copyright Trolls Came for Me By Victoria Strauss | June 23, 2023 | 7 Comments If you’re a writer who’s serious about a career, you probably have some form of online presence: a website, a blog, an Instagram account. You may make use of images and/or videos created by others–to add visual interest …
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June 19, 2023
On my blog today, I’m talking to the dynamic Kathleen McClung, who describes her writer’s journey!
Kathleen McClung is the author of four poetry collections: A Juror Must Fold in on Herself, winner of the 2020 Rattle Chapbook Prize, Temporary Kin, The Typists Play Monopoly and Almost the Rowboat. Winner of the Morton Marr, Maria W. Faust, and Rita Dove national poetry prizes, her work appears in a variety of journals …
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June 12, 2023
Where do writer’s stories come from?
Whenever I give a talk or reading, someone in the audience asks where my stories come from. I find the answer more complex that what it would appear to be on the surface. What are my narrative seeds? What starts me on these explorations of others’ lives? One of my bios states “Lily sprouted on …
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