She supplemented her teaching income by taking on occasional illustration jobs for clients ranging from London Transport to Strand magazine and, less frequently, illustrating children’s books such as Marjorie Seymour’s Camille Cat,“the story of a cat who liked green figs far too well.” Perhaps...
I started writing when I was a little girl at the age of 8, but at the age of 13 is when I discovered that I knew how to write poems, short stories, and music, yes most definitely music.Writing is like my pain reliever medication, it has always made me feel at ease, it brings ...
“I’ve thought of myself as giving voice to people who normally don’t have a voice,” said Doll, a fine arts professor atCreighton University, where he holds the Charles and Mary Heider endowed Jesuit Chair. “My work has generally been about other cultures — about how other people li...
In 2014, she also presented at the Asian Festival of Children’s Content in Singapore and Reading for the Love of it in Toronto (2015). She is an Ontario Certified Teacher and has taught visual arts, drama, and creative writing in Toronto for 25 years. She is also a tdsbCREATES mentor...
The sins of the mother are visited upon the children The Echoes is many things in Evie Wyld’s new novel. It is the rural backwater in Australia where Hannah grew up, and it is also the shape of the book, as the past reverberates down the generations. Philip Larkin said that man han...
Their mother, Julia Prinsep Stephen had become a widow in 1870 after her first husband, Herbert Duckworth, died of a burst abscess. She already had three children: George, Stella, and Gerald. The latter was born shortly after Herbert’s death in 1870. ...
Hold each other tightly and keep your doors barred, children, for something wicked this way comes.* Witches occupy an interesting place in the popular imagination. Sure, the first thing that may spring to mind for many is the stereotype of a warty hag on a broomstick with a black cat ...
In India, he married his first wife. Together, they had three children. He married a second time after his first wife died and had three more children. His second wife, Sarah Ann, helped in the publishing of his works after his death. In the forward to a publication entitled, Troward’...
Website:www.christianfaithpublishing.com/books/?book=guardians-of-the-queen 2020 Interview: Laura Hervey Laura Hervey: I am blessed to teach 9th grade English at my alma mater. With two married children and three grandchildren, I keep myself busy making memories and sharing experiences. ...
Maybe the Bird Will Rise and Safe House hold huge chunks of my heart, as well. Don’t miss either one. Secondly, read on and you’ll see why it’s our feature picture of the day. You see, when I decided to return to publishing, my thought wasn’t far off from what it had ...