Sarnia and readings next week

I’m in Sarnia, sitting in a comfy chair in Coffee Lodge, killing time until I catch my train home. Last night I read at the Sarnia Public library to a small but enthusiastic group who braved a snowstorm for the sake of literature! I met a few members of the local gay group, Sarnia Pride  and received a [...]

Coming up this week…

You are invited to an upcoming Stealing Nasreen
book reading in Sarnia
Thursday, March 27th 7:00-8:30pm
Sarnia Public Library, 124 Christina Street South
Followed by a Q&A and book signing.
Copies of Stealing Nasreen will be available for sale.
Endorsed bySarnia Lambton Pride www.sarniapride.ca 
Copies of Stealing Nasreen can also be found at The Sarnia Book Keeper www.sarniabookkeeper.com 
See the report [...]

My Comfort Inn Writing Retreat

I accompanied my partner to Waterloo this week, and while she was busy doing work stuff on Thursday, I stayed back at our hotel room with my laptop. Now, I’m not sure whether it was the power of the Waterloo Comfort Inn or that I had nothing else to do in that characterless room, but [...]

Happy International Women’s Day!

There’s much to celebrate this IWD…
I attended and did a book reading at a great celebration for IWD yesterday at the Noor Cultural Centre called “Sisters’ Doing It For Themselves, Muslim Women Organizing”.  There were fabulous performers there including Rosina Kazi from LAL, and Farheen Beg.  Selma Al-Nadhir (the younger sister of Alwy, who was unjustly killed by [...]

February is over!

Thank the universe that February is finally over! It’s been a month of too much snow and cold and not enough sunshine…
But holing up makes for good writing time, and February has taken me to the 3/4 point of my second novel (the draft anyway!).
So on to March…here are a  couple of public appearances/readings I’ll [...]