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Endings & Beginnings
…since 1989; Richard Dionne and others from Red Deer Press, who saw the potential in the guidebook that Peter had made available to students over the years and encouraged him…
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“Writing With the Old Ones”
Having read several novels by Richard Wagamese, (Ragged Company, Indian Horse, and Dream Wheels), I knew as soon as I found out he offers workshops, that I wanted to take…
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Multiple Viewpoint Novels
…think, is because its author Richard Wagamese accomplished something I’ve been struggling with in the writing of my current novel-in-progress. Each one of his characters has his or her own…
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CANSCAIP’s 28th & 35th
…nature of human beings: We are all the same under the skin. We are all a multitude of different people. Nobody thinks they’re a villain. Richard Scrimger told us that…
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Canada 150
…pieces in One Native Life, in which Richard Wagamese wrote about what the new Canadian flag meant to him as a young indigenous person separated from his roots. Richard’s recent…
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Reading at the CNIB
…in there together. We had both been reading parts of Ragged Company, a superb novel by Richard Wagamese. As I mentioned in a previous post, I read the parts of…
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A Plug for CANSCAIP
…fun writing and delivering that keynote for CANSCAIP’s Packaging Your Imagination conference in 2011. Richard Scrimger delivered the keynote in 2012 and his brilliant meditation on what writing is will…
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Pleasant Memories of Book Week
…at the Canadian Children’s Book Centre site. Thanks to the CCBC for the chance to gather these happy memories, and to Richard Chase, who co-ordinated such a successful tour for…
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Best Books of the Year
…Kathleen Miller The Gospel Truth by Caroline Pignat The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman Time Snatchers by Richard Ungar Cool Water by Dianne Warren Non-fiction How to Be Sick…
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National Volunteer Week
…Company by Richard Wagamese varied from how things are usually done. I’m writing about it again now is because I’ve reached a milestone in my development as a volunteer reader….
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My 23 Favourite Books in 2018
…Dunnion The Piano Maker — Kurt Palka A Piece of the World — Cristina Baker Kline The Dinner — Herman Koch The Evening Chorus — Helen Humphreys Starlight — Richard…
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25 Random Things About Me
…I am currently reading my 17th book as a volunteer in the CNIB’s talking books program. NOW: I’m honoured to be working on Richard Wagamese’s last novel as my 49th…
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Summer Reading, Reading Aloud
…introduced, gratefully, to the writing of Richard Wagamese through my work at CNIB (as the female-narrator parts of Ragged Company (Book #20).) I’ve had the privilege of reading other greats,…
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Summer Reading
…get to all year.” Three books I plan to read this summer are by authors I’ve read before. The Time of Our Singing by Richard Powers. If he can do…
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Beyond Orange Shirt Day
…to interviews with those authors. Two books by Richard Wagamese, about whom I have blogged previously, are on the list. The CBC list also includes a good number of children’s…
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“I Read Canadian” 2022
…– Catherine Hernandez The Strangers – Katherena Vermette A Town Called Solace – Mary Lawson A Quality of Light – Richard Wagamese Speak, Silence – Kim Echlin This Little Light…
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