For the next few weeks, as we approach the April 8th release of A Family by Any Other Name, I’d like to introduce you to some of the book’s contributors. Nancy Newcomb is a writer based in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. She is the author of “More Than a Donor.” Why…
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A Family by Any Other Name
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Meet Rosemary Rowe
For the next few weeks, as we approach the April 8th release of A Family by Any Other Name, I’d like to introduce you to some of the book’s contributors. Rosemary Rowe is a Vancouver-based writer and playwright whose essay is called “Aspiring Lesbian Aunt.” How did you find…
Quill & Quire’s Spring ’14 preview
I was thrilled to see that A Family By Any Other Name was mentioned in Quill & Quire’s preview of the Spring ’14 book season, alongside Scotiabank Giller Prize winner Esi Edugyan’s forthcoming book, based on her 2013 Henry Keisel Memorial Lecture, and Kerry Clare’s The M-Word, an anthology of…
Editing personal essays
This is the second of my posts about editing an essay anthology. In the first post, I looked at the big picture, discussing how I go about commissioning and finding essays for such a collection and then deciding which ones I can accept and which ones I have to decline….
Call for Submissions: Stories about LGBT families
Editor Bruce Gillespie is making a call for submissions for an anthology of personal essays about lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, and transsexual people and their families. The collection will be part of a series about the changing nature of the family in the 21st century published by TouchWood Editions of…