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NEXT BIG THING
I was flattered to learn that Jane Silcott had chosen to pass me the cyber-baton in the Next Big Thing. Jane’s work was recommended to me by two […]
TRANSLATE IN QUEBEC CITY: A CONFERENCE FOR PREMIUM MARKET TRANSLATORS (29-31 August 2013)
You can forget how beautiful Quebec City is. And then you go back and it wraps itself around you: all that textured stone, the Plains of Abraham, the river, the tall European-looking buildings with shutters on the windows. Twenty-first […]
CONTEST DEADLINE EXTENDED
ONE MORE DAY! Because my Maxine photo contest closed on a long weekend, I’ve extended it slightly. New and final deadline: Tuesday 3 September 2013, 5 pm Newfoundland time. All you have to do is snap someone reading my book and send in the photo. Details at […]
WINTERSET IN SUMMER 2013
Winterset in Summer Literary Festival 9–11 August 2013
Last weekend was my first experience of Winterset, where I’d been invited to participate in the New Voices panel. Three days of readings, discussions, and parties on the Eastport Peninsula and everything was great, but for me two sessions stood […]
EDITORS’ ASSOCIATION OF CANADA CONFERENCE 2013
In June I went to the EAC’s annual conference in Halifax. It’s the first time they’ve held a conference this far east: good work, Nova Scotians!
Preamble
Rhododendrons were in a blooming frenzy in the park across the road.
The night before the conference started, […]
SUMMER READING CONTEST!
If you don’t know about my summer reading contest, head over to www.clairewilkshire.com/contest for details on how to win. All entries must be in by 31 August 2013.
NABOKOV AND THE TYRANNY OF THE PRESENT
I often read several books at once, a page or two here and there, so it can take me a long time to finish them. I’ve been working through Vladimir Nabokov’s Speak, Memory for so long now that the time when I started the book is, fittingly, […]