“If ants are such busy workers, how come they find time to go to all the picnics?” Marie Dressler The Peoples Republic of Poetry (PRP) calls for submissions of poems for its Picnic Table Anthology 2022. The poems can be any subject but limited to 20 lines. Each poem will be on a transparency and…
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What’s Right in Front of Me by Donna Edmonds
“Photography takes some planning, research, ideas and of course luck, but in the end I am able to let go of my thinking mind and give all of my attention to what’s right in front of me and not what I had imagined it might be or how I had hoped it would work.” –Donna…
The Arts Have Their Place by Wally Keeler
The arts have their places, everywhere, inside, outside. Great buildings host operas, orchestras, plays, music, and dance. Even literature has great buildings. Patrons take out nature books, dramas, mysteries, histories, biographies, while poetry wall flowers away and none take it out for a dance. Outdoors, there is theatre in the park, bandshells for music, dance…
Meet the Faces Behind NFOTA: Kim Aubrey
Kim serves on the NFOTA Steering and Communications Committees and helps with the website and social media. Who are you? I was born and grew up in Bermuda, married a Canadian and moved to Toronto, where we raised our kids, and I began writing short stories. After our younger daughter finished university, my husband and…
Families: Real and Imagined by Kim Aubrey
For the past year and a half, lockdowns and social distancing rules have limited the time my husband and I could spend with our daughters, and we’ve been unable to visit my mother and brothers in the US. Working on a novel about an imagined family has helped me to feel less lonely. My characters…
Meet the Faces behind NFOTA: Tom Pickering
I’ve lived in several Canadian cities and worked in assorted industries. Notable stops included Edmonton to attend university and work in the oil patch, and the GTA to work for IT and engineering companies as a technical writer. Now settled in Cobourg, I live here with my wife and dog, thankful for the pleasures of…