The Wednesday interview

Reading time: About 2 minutes Caroline Dohack says she uses the same strategies she employs as a runner in order to encourage herself to write…. Caroline Dohack is a journalist who covers culture, technology and business. She also is an adjunct professor with the Stephens College fashion program in Columbia, Missouri. She is currently working […]

Reading time: About 2 minutes Erin MacNair has had her stories published in The Baffler, The Walrus, Prairie Fire, subTerrain and others. She’s finished writing a collection of literary, speculative fiction short stories and is working on a novel. She lives in North Vancouver. I was excited to talk to Erin about how she approaches

Reading time: About 2 minutes Carmen Farrell believes that inspiration doesn’t come out of nowhere. Instead, it’s the byproduct of hard work…. Carmen Farrell is a force behind community initiatives for the neurodiverse: para-athlete opportunities for high schoolers, learning-to-work programs at university, and playground inclusion groups in elementary school. Her published creative nonfiction focuses on

Reading time: About 2 minutes Writer Tara McGuire loves revising, which she calls “collaging” and finds that writing a first draft is “the worst”… Tara McGuire’s first book, Holden After & Before — Love Letter for a Son Lost to Overdose, a hybrid work in memoir and fiction (Arsenal Pulp Press), was a finalist for

Reading time: About 2 minutes Casey Hibbard says that when she doesn’t feel like writing, she works hard to engineer a mindset shift. Read this interview to learn more…. A corporate storyteller, Casey Hibbard helps businesses sell with the voices of their happy customers. She’s the author of the first book on creating and leveraging

Reading time: About 1 minute Laura Petrecca says that NOT writing is often what makes her a better writer. Read this interview to learn more… Laura Petrecca is an award-winning multimedia journalist, writer, editor, and content strategist with more than 25 years of experience at top media companies. Laura is the founder of the editorial

Reading time: About 3 minutes Frances Peck gets reliable results by using an accountability partner. Read more about her strategy in this interview…. Frances Peck returned to creative writing later in life, after building a career as an editor, ghostwriter, and instructor. Her debut novel, The Broken Places, was a Globe and Mail best book

Reading time: About 3 minutes Kate Vrancken as the wonderful advice that if you’re not in the mood to write, writing will change your mood. Read this interview to learn more… Kaat Vrancken is a Belgian writer of children’s books and nonfiction in Dutch. She taught creative writing for 15 years, and now she organizes

Reading time: About 3 minutes Writer Nate Birt says he asks himself “what’s the most ridiculous thing I can come up with today?” when his fiction writing gets jammed up. Read this interview to learn the other strategies he uses… Nate Birt is a writer and founder of Silver Maple Strategies, a communications and fundraising

Reading time: About 1 minute Nicholas Read likes to remind writers that words on a page — any words — are always better than a blank page…. Nicholas Read is a former journalist and journalism instructor and a passionate defender of animal rights. Now retired, he still writes the occasional column for the Vancouver Sun