Shannon Alberta had a dilemma. A passionate advocate for cultural change, this Story Course grad and Story Intensive teacher was starting to achieve real success in her life as a fiction writer. She knew in her heart that she was an artist — but she also knew in her heart that she was an activist. How could she do both? When she had the opportunity to work on the documentary The Game Changers, Shannon helped… [Read More]
A character prompt that turned into a book.
Every so often one of our alumni gets in touch to tell us something exciting: a contest win, an MFA application completed, a writing group found, or a publication announcement. We love love love hearing success stories from our writers! I especially love hearing about stories and projects launched by my Daily Prompts. I send them out there every day like messages in bottles, wondering where they’ll land. When they land in a book, it… [Read More]
Rosie is still one of my favourite characters.
Today is the final installment in our “Where are they now?” guest post series. My hope is that reading these features is helping you feel galvanized and readied for the contest deadline! Yes? Submit your story to The Little Bird Contest by May 4th. Go on. Show it to Esi Edugyan. Why not? You might not have the certainty that it’s perfect — I rarely feel that way about anything I’ve written — but if… [Read More]
The floor, the typewriter, and the story.
Today is the penultimate feature in our special Little Bird Contest guest post series. The contest deadline is still two weeks away. There’s lots of time left for you to finish your piece and submit it to Esi Edugyan. Remember, you can submit your story anytime before May 4th. In today’s feature, we talk to Jill Talbot, from Gabriola Island, British Columbia! We first met Jill through her Little Bird submission in 2014. When Rebecca… [Read More]
Write like a reader, and read like a writer
Today is the second installment in our “Where are they now?” guest post series. Every week this month, to celebrate The Little Bird Writing Contest and encourage you to submit your story, we are featuring a writer who has been published in a past volume of The Little Bird Anthology. In these interviews, I try to understand how it feels for different people when they send in a piece of writing without knowing what will… [Read More]
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