By Matt Mott

You can’t teach someone to be a good writer per se, but you can teach people, or rather train people, to regularly access the creative side of their brain. You’d think this would come eventually as you write more and more stories (however failed those stories may be), but this is not always the case. . . .

And Ross Leckie, editor of The Fiddlehead also has a poem in Best Canadian. Thanks to Lorna Crozier for taking on the task of editing the book. It's a lot of work.