Making words count
There it is. I'm going to open up. Sort of. No, I'm going to try. I consume too much media and write too little of…
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For donations to the Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society, that is! Because being a starving freelancer is a myth, but 25,000 hungry people (almost half…
The very symbol of neglect, tumbleweeds are rather dramatic in their own way.
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The consequence of living is accumulating stuff. Papers and brochures and business cards from travels or taking a class or going to a conference. Books…
Say Wha is coming to New Westminster. Check out the poster – how can you resist that?
I’m super excited to be doing a show in New West’s wonderful River Market. I’ve brought along three of Say Wha?!’s all-star readers who will be sharing two books each for this very fun and packed show. I hope you can join us. If you live outside of Vancouver I’m so glad to finally be coming to you. If you’re in Vancouver, it’s actually really easy to get to. Just hop on the Skytrain and get off on the main New Westminster stop and walk 4 minutes towards the river.
May 2, 2012
River Market
8pm
$15
| River Market 810 Quayside Drive New Westminster, BC V3M 6B9 |
Note: This is a ticketed event. Purchase your tickets online.
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First they took us all to task for our font snobbery. Now they're telling punctuation bar jokes. Whenever I visit McSweeney's, I remember why I…
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When you shave off the first syllable of moustache, it becomes stache, not stash, okay? If you ask me to look at your "stash" I'm…
Christine Rowlands Writing & Editing 