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The murder of John Lennon was now thirty-five years ago — hard to believe that much time has passed. So in remembrance, I thought I’d dust off this non-fiction piece of mine which ran in FreeFall Magazine in 2012.   We All Shine On: What I Learned from John Lennon              December 8, 2010 marked…

The Calgary launch of 40 Below: Alberta’s Winter Anthology on Nov. 7th was a lot of fun. We had a good crowd turn out, and got the book up to number three on The Calgary Herald’s Calgary bestseller list this week.  It also hit number one on The Edmonton Journal’s bestseller list. Way to go, Jason!…

Today is one of those gorgeous fall days when it’s hard to believe winter will ever come. But come it will, and I’m betting in about a month it will be here to stay. Coincidentally, in less than month, I’ll be reading at the Calgary book launch of 40 Below: Alberta’s Winter Anthology, Volume 2, along with Ali…

My contribution to The Litter I See Project can be found here. The project is raising awareness of (and funds for) the literacy programs at Frontier College. Please consider supporting the important work they do.

The weather looks great for this weekend and I’m looking forward to heading out to Medicine Hat on Saturday. I’ll be leading a free writing workshop in the Honor Currie Room at Medicine Hat Public Library from 1 – 3:30 PM. So Medicine Hat and area writers, come on out! Lots on offer for arts…

Getting ready for the start of the school year at Mount Royal University, where my Creative Writing courses for the Continuing Education department start tomorrow night. Looking forward to meeting the new group of students — we always get a really interesting variety of people. Coming up on Saturday, September 26th, I’m participating in Alberta…

Very nice to see After You’ve Gone on the Scotiabank Giller Prize’s 2015 Crazy for CanLit List! It’s a honour to be included with so many other fine books, and always interesting to see the wide variety of books that come out in Canada. Cool!

Today Shaun Hunter’s Writing the City blog series features my first novel, Love Minus Zero, with a brief excerpt and a really nasty picture of the National Hotel. Thanks for the shout out, Shaun! I’ve been enjoying the series very much. Tune in to read about Calgary through the eyes of writers.

There’s the full moon coming up over the mountain in Canmore on Thursday night. My friend Jan Markley and I were there for a truly self-directed writing retreat over the weekend, and I must say we both truly got a lot of work done. I can now see the light at the end of this…