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Where Do I Start? Writing Prompts by Kathryn Mockler

Where Do I Start? | Writing Prompts by Kathryn MocklerTime TravelerTime Traveler is one of my favourite writing exercises. It can be used for all genres of writing and can generate some unusual results. I’ve used this exercise in experimental writing, poetry, and fiction workshops. Thanks for reading Where Do I Start? | Writing Prompts by Kathryn Mockler! Subscribe for free to receive…Read more2 minutes ago · Kathryn MocklerRecommended Viewing

I enjoyed the Being Mary Tyler Moore documentary. I forgot she was the first woman to wear pants on TV in the Dick Van Dyke Show.

I also enjoyed BEEF and the second season of Somebody Somewhere, which has been renewed for a third season! Yay! And of course I watch Succession.

I also saw a terrible movie on Criterion called Bedroom Window (1987). It’s kind of a good-bad movie but mostly bad.

Sari Botton on being childfree:

We are Childfree

We are Childfree on Instagram: “So excited to welcome a Gen X icon to the pod! Author Sari Botton never felt entitled to choose not to be a mother, and at 40, found herself in a fertility clinic getting a diagnosis that gave her “permission” to live a happily childfree life: “Being of the generation that I’m from - I’m the oldest Gen X you can be - nobody told me I was allowed to just opt out. And I needed the intervention of biology, and medicine, to tell me, you actually can’t do this. And when I found out I needed a hysterectomy, my shoulders descended. Everything felt much less stressful. And I just thought, I don’t have to do this. And it was a relief. It was a great relief.” Listen to the We are Childfree podcast wherever you get pods! 🎙 Link in bio 👆 #wearechildfree #childfreepodcast #childfree #childfreebycircumstance #childfreelife #childfreelifestyle #childfreewomen #childfreecommunity #childfreestory #genX”May 26, 2023Recommended Reading

I’m currently reading Tuesday or September or The End by Hannah Black. This was on many year end reading lists in December. I had a hard time finding a copy but got one this week, and so far I’m loving it. It’s an alien invasion book set in 2020.

I just finished The Double Life of Benson Yu by Kevin Chong, a dark and complex metafictional novel. Highly recommend.

If you are looking for excellent writing about books and reading check out Steven Beattie’s blog That Shakespearean Rag. I particularly like this 31 Days of Short Stories.

CBC put together a list of 24 books by past CBC Poetry Prize winners and finalists being published in 2023 and included my forthcoming story collection Anecdotes!

The Winter Writers Residency is a self-directed program that offers time and space for writers to retreat, reconnect, and re-energize their writing practice. In addition to a single room, and a small private studio, you will be surrounded by a community of artistic peers with the opportunity to attend inspiring talks, performances, and meet with guest faculty to consult on your work.

Application Deadline: September 24, 2023

Upcoming Contributor Events

Fertile Festival 2023 - August 11-20, 2023 - knife | fork | book

Wolsak and Wynn Spring Launch - June 13, 2023!

7:00 PM 9:00 PM - Tranzac Club292 Brunswick Avenue, Toronto, ON

FEATURING:

Wait Softly Brother by Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer

The Spirits Have Nothing to Do with Us: New Chinese Canadian Fiction edited by Dan K. Woo

Letters to Little Comrade by Dan K. Woo

Adventurize Your Summer! by Chris Pannell

Gills by Ayomide Bayowa

Celebrate Pride with Lockheed Martin by Jake Byrne

Put Flowers Around Us and Pretend We’re Dead: New and Selected Poems by Catherine Graham.

Book Launch for On Class by Deborah Dundas

Join author and Toronto Star editor Deborah Dundas for the launch of On Class, the latest title in Biblioasis' Field Notes series. Reading and discussion with open Q&A, and book signing to follow.

June 15, 2023
Flying Books, 784 College Street, Toronto - 6:30pm
Free event. Books for sale.