WingWords writing groups offer a safe, encouraging space for you to uncover an idea or theme you have been waiting to discover. Come and explore OR continue working on a project you have already begun. Find Your voice - An eight week online workshop to help the writers discover their next idea or theme. Sessions are 2.5 hours long. Explore that idea you didn't know was waiting inside you. 10 weeks 8 - 10 writers 2.5 hours online Care for the Caregiver - Come and fill y

When the first crisp kick of autumn air hits my lungs, I’m taken right back: Pink Pearl erasers,  pinchy new shoes, and a schoolbag full...

Memoir When my mother died, she left behind boxes of minutiae and memories, among them: programs from every play I’d done, all her driver’s licenses, birthday cards, an early letter of employment, and Dad’s faded company ID.  There were old bank books, mortgage records, hundreds of photos, and tiny newspaper clippings of obituaries for people I never knew. And, my record collection.  As a little kid, I had a collection of 45-inch children’s records with titles like “The Synco

I wish I could say I returned home to Toronto and got right down to fanning my newly rekindled writing spark after visiting Harriet that...

In July 1989, with a couple of days off from a Second City tour, I guided my rental car along a mind-numbingly straight Manitoba highway;...

They soar past my house, down the path of the riverway below. Three synchronized feathered skeletons, broad wings outstretched, doing a...

Harriet had hung up on me. I knew I wouldn’t hear from her again. My heart sat, a tight tiny rock in my chest. Instead of helping, I...

Moira collapsed onto the warm summer grass between her mother and father, awash in autumn sunshine and sweat. Who knew burying your...