Guest post: The Pursuit of Passion

My obsession with a female matador revealed surprising parallels between bullfighting and the act of writing, says Elizabeth Ruth (Originally published in Quill & Quire, January / February 2013) It all began one Saturday morning six years ago when I was in my...

Lit Idol

If I hadn’t by chance heard a tongue-in-check fifteen-second spot on the CBC Arts Report as I drove into work one day back in 2004, I never would have heard about the event that launched my writing career. It sounded like a joke to me at first. The London...

Exploring Truth Through Fiction

Note: This post contains an imbedded video which may not be viewable on all devices. If you were to do a Google search on the difference between fiction and nonfiction, you’d find a lot of results that come back telling you nonfiction is real and fiction is fake. In...