by inannaadmin | Jul 12, 2016 | Uncategorized
Peg Tittle, author of What Happened to Tom, ponders boys books and the difficulty of girls seeing themselves in boys’ literary worlds. Boy books. You’re thinking The Boys’ Book of...
by inannaadmin | Jun 6, 2016 | Uncategorized
Peg Tittle, author of What Happened to Tom?, ponders the definition of “women’s fiction”, women writers, conflicting definitions of fiction, and under-representation / misrepresentation of writers in the publishing world. ...
by inannaadmin | Apr 8, 2016 | Uncategorized
Rhoda Rabinowitz Green, author of “Aspects of Nature”, writes about how Helen Weinzweig used magic realism to transport her feelings of trauma and pain into language the reader could emotionally grasp.My most important problem was destroyingthe lines of...
by inannaadmin | Mar 27, 2016 | Uncategorized
Ann Birch, author of “The Secret Life of Roberta Greaves” (fall 2016), writes about the decline in the study of the humanities at universities and unacceptable incomes in the artsA recent New York Times article (February 23, 2016) comments on the decline...
by inannaadmin | Mar 23, 2016 | Uncategorized
In this second installment of a three-part blog series on Helen Weinzweig, Rhoda Rabinowitz Green writes about traumatic experiences of Helen’s childhood, her growing awareness of thwarted self-fullfilment and her search for identity, and how they are revealed...
by inannaadmin | Mar 21, 2016 | Uncategorized
Rhoda Rabinowitz Green, author of Aspects of Nature, writes about the legacy of Governor General’s Award Winning author Helen Weinzweig, the writing process, intellectual curiosity, aging, and finding one’s hochma (wisdom). If I tell you, how will you know? The...
by inannaadmin | Mar 8, 2016 | Uncategorized
Nasreen Pejvack, author of “Amity” on the sham of war, women’s roles in the world, and a new agenda for peace.“Woman, who dares to avow her horror of war, her pity for the victims, for all victims.” (A passage from Marcelle Capy;...
by inannaadmin | Feb 26, 2016 | Uncategorized
Susan McCaslin, author of “Into the Mystic: My Years with Olga” writes about human-animal relationships, spiritual companions, love, and reflection on loss. “What is this Joy? That no animal falters, but knows what it must do?” – from “Come into...
by inannaadmin | Feb 12, 2016 | Uncategorized
Zoë S. Roy, author of Calls Across the Pacific, reflects on Mao Zedong, “VIP fruit”, and the power of fiction. One day when I walked past Spadina Avenue in Toronto, piled mangos in yellow and orange on a fruit stand caught my eye. A memory of a sacred...
by inannaadmin | Feb 8, 2016 | Uncategorized
Ann Birch, author of The Secret Life of Roberta Greaves, writes about some basic tips for writing dialogue that she’s learned over the years from workshops with major Canadian writers.These are basic tips for writing dialogue that I’ve learned over the...
