Posted on December 7, 2010
By Matt Mott
Set small, specific goals like write a scene with a lamp, a dog, and blue sedan. Remember, education is about drills and jumping through hoops. Most of those hoops are going to be completely arbitrary, just like lifting a dumb-bell up and down is completely arbitrary, but arbitrary hoops provide practice, and you need to practice creativity to develop it as a skill. Editing comes later. Learn to just grow a story first. . . .
Posted on December 2, 2010
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. . . .
Posted on November 23, 2010
By Matt Mott
Just because the likelihood of something being good is very low doesn’t mean you should look down on it. Every once in a while something comes along that combines sharp, smart composition with more-leaning-towards-straight-up-fun content, the result being a piece of art that just plain rocks! Case in point, The Walking Dead — a weekly late night series that you can catch on AMC Sunday nights.
Posted on November 18, 2010
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.
Posted on November 10, 2010
Posted on October 28, 2010
Tammy Armstrong, poetry co-editor of The Fiddlehead and nominated for the Governor General’s Award in 2002, will be launching her new collection: The Scare in the Crow.
Posted on October 19, 2010
Posted on October 7, 2010
Scenes from Poetry Weekend at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton, NB, Canada. All photos by Brian Bartlett.
Posted on October 4, 2010
Are you a writer living in or near Fredericton or do live elsewhere in New Brunswick and will be coming for a visit to Fredericton? Would you be interested in receiving free feedback on your writing? Then consider making an appointment with UNB Fredericton’s 2010/2011 writer-in-residence
John Barton.
Posted on September 29, 2010
The annual poetry weekend is upon us! Once again UNB Fredericton welcomes many acclaimed Canadian and local poets at this weekend-long poetry festival. Come hear many of your favorite poets read their work.
Featured poets such as John Steffler, Sue Gillis, Anne Compton, Brian Bartlett, Richard Lemm, David Zieroth, Johanna Skibsrud, Karen Solie, Shane Neilson, Sharon McCartney, Katia Grubisic, matt robinson, Vanessa Moeller, Michael deBeyer, James Langer, Tammy Armstong -just to name a few- will be reading this weekend! Come and join us for a wonderful time.
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