Awhile back, Francine Cunningham interviewed me for the UBC Creative Writing Alumni website, and the videos are now live! If you want to know what my hair looks like after an afternoon of summer bike-riding and how great my favourite lip colour is, in addition to learning what I’m working on right now and how IContinue reading “Interview with UBC Creative Writing Alumni Association”
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Ophelia and the arrival of spring flowers
Recently, the world celebrated William Shakespeare’s 450th birthday. Well, that’s our best guess, anyway, anyone who’s studied Shakespeare will tell you: we only know what day he was christened, so we assume April 23rd is his birthday. Regardless, there were some pretty fun celebrations of the Bard around the world, including “Cakespeare,” a contest hosted byContinue reading “Ophelia and the arrival of spring flowers”
10 Ways to Annoy a Poet (and other writers of “less marketable” literature)
I wrote a short humour piece that is up on the PRISM international‘s blog today, in which I share with Sierra Skye Gemma my top 10 tips for annoying poets and writers of “less marketable” literature. Please feel free to share the link widely, especially if you can relate to any of the annoying thingsContinue reading “10 Ways to Annoy a Poet (and other writers of “less marketable” literature)”
Welcome
Welcome, readers! If you’re interested in learning about what I write and why I write, and the weird and wonderful things that contribute to my life as a writer, then you have come to the right place. Please note I am also keen to talk about dessert–especially chocolate desserts–as well as feminism, fairy tales, children’sContinue reading “Welcome”
Ruth Daniell 