Ominous, An African Journey is now in print!
It is an exciting day; I just picked up three boxes of my first book and it looks great, if I do say so myself. Better yet, the account of three years living in Africa is exciting and engaging. I think readers will enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it.
I’ll up-date “So Noted” when Ominous is available in local book stores. If you can’t “buy locally” in Victoria, you can order the book on Amazon.ca or Amazon.com
Research that began in 2017 finally became a published article in Society Pages, the quarterly publication of the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec (spring issue 2023).
Many thanks to “Lit & His” Librarian and quarterly editor Kathleen Hulley for putting the final polish on my article: “Canada’s Women Writers Got It Right: The Augustine Hospitallers as Historians”.
The registers of the Hôtel Dieu de Québec, date back to the 1690s. The women who Augustine nurses and administrators kept hospital records that add to the fabric of Canadian history.
Le Monastère des Augustines, 32 rue Charlevoix, Quebec City. photo by Britta Gundersen-Bryden, 2017.
Zoe Dickinson, prize-winning poet, was the presenter at last night’s Victoria Writers; Society meeting. afterwards, other local poets were invited to read a piece of their own poetry. I chose “Wrath,” a rather dark piece about the intersections between racism, violence and climate change.
Victoria Writers’ Society hosted an open mic session at their January meeting last night. I read “Bats and Bigger”, a chapter from my forthcoming memoir, Ominous, An African Journey.
I was delighted to be able to read my poem, “Tiny Brains” at the Victoria Writers’ Society meeting last night. The poem was published in the latest issue of Island Writer and touches on the emerging power of AI.
Nightingale (Goldfinch Press 2022) has just been released. This memoir by James Bay writer, Mary Hodges, is a delight. Never pretentious, often funny and written in crisp prose, this book is a treat to read.
I’ve been reading – and enjoying – short stories in PJ Cresswell’s anthology Scattered Pieces. Published early in 2022, I’ve learned that a second volume will be out by the end of the year.
When red poppies begin appearing on lapels and caps, I am reminded that history is the story of people – his story, her story and their story. Several years ago I wrote about George Frederick Mingot, an army private during WWI. He was born in France, came to Saskatchewan with his father and sister, fought for Canada and, after facing a cannon like the one below during the Battle of Bourlon Woods, died a few kilometres from his birthplace, just weeks before the November 11, 1918 armistice was declared.
