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Waterscapes
“Fiction depends for its life on place…” Eudora Welty, The Eye of the Story Two new novels arrived in the mail yesterday, Rook, by Jane Rusbridge, published by Bloomsbury, UK, and The Apple House, by...
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AT THE MIKE ~ The World of Fiction
AT THE MIKE ~ The World of Fiction Join authors Sophie B. Watson, Gillian Campbell, and Kathy Page for an evening discussion on the art and challenges of storytelling. Tuesday, September 18 7:00 PM...
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In the Flesh in E-Book
In the Flesh is now selling as an e-book, available in many formats. Kindle Apple Kobo Barnes and Noble Sony Google
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West Coast Literary Portraits
I’ll admit I don’t normally enjoy having my picture taken, but being in this book, in which portraits and literary extracts sit side by side, has been a pleasure. It began with a morning spent in the...
View ArticleGlobe review of In the Flesh
Great review for In the Flesh in the Globe, good illustrations, PDF here: flesh globe review Text only: In the Flesh Twenty Writers Explore the Body Author Kathy Page, Lynne Van Luven Genre...
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The Pike’s Heart
In the late afternoon, our pale blue boat slipped away from the bleached wooden jetty. Pekka rowed; Markku picked in slow motion through the jumble of fishing gear. No one in the Ålands uses outboards...
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The Perfect Day (memoir)
This piece, published in Carte Blanche, centres on a day out with two nonagenarians: one of the last excursions my parents and I took together. http://carte-blanche.org/the-perfect-day/
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Workshops, Mentoring and Manuscript Consultancy
Mentoring & Manuscript Consultancy Workshops & Courses When I began to teach fiction writing in the UK there was a still a lingering prejudice against doing so. Shakespeare and Dickens had...
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Writing Workshops with Kathy Page in 2013
I’m looking forward very much to workshops in Scotland, Norwich and London all taking place in June 2013. I’m delighted to be co-tutoring with Marilyn Bowering at Moniack Mhor, and with Vicky Grut in...
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Short, Sharp, Sweet on Saturdays in April
I’m very excited about the upcoming short story season at Salt Spring Island Public Library, and delighted, but also somewhat nervous at the prospect of reading alongside Caroline Adderson, who is a...
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Art, Crime, Poverty and Power
This is an unashamed plug for Jackie Jaques, whose novel The Colours of Corruption, just published by Honno Press has been nominated for the People’s Book Prize in the UK....
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WRITING LIVES: memoir, creative nonfiction, fiction – a weekend workshop with...
Vicky Grut has been a friend and colleague of mine for almost as long as I’ve been writing. We first met when I was living at Carlton Mansions in Brixton, and later lived next door to each other....
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Desperate Glory
The New Quarterly is one of my favourite literary magazines and I’m delighted they’ve included “Desperate Glory” in the forthcoming winter issue, TNQ 128. Set in 1933, “Desperate Glory” is one...
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Biblioasis
It’s done! I’ve just sent the final edit of the text of my collection of short stories, Paradise & Elsewhere, to Biblioasis. Years of work go into a book; sending it out ushers in a delicious...
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Going back in time
It’s out! The current bright red issue of Canadian Notes & Queries celebrates the work of John Metcalf, writer, critic and editor extraordinaire. Tucked in amongst appreciations of John from Kim...
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Paradise & Elsewhere
The second proofs have been read and returned; hugely generous endorsements have come in from Barbara Gowdy and Amy Bloom, and the jacket has been created. Paradise & Elsewhere, to be published...
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Paradise & Elsewhere, upcoming events
Paradise & Elsewhere is out of the box! Upcoming events include: 29th April: Long Story Short at The Cultch, 1895 Venables Street, Vancouver, 7pm. Join short story writers C.P. Boyko and Kathy Page...
View ArticleParadise & Elsewhere in the Winnipeg Review
The first reaction to Paradise & Elsewhere: thanks to Charlene Van Buekenhout for a great review, and for the care she takes not to spoil readers’ experiences of the stories by giving away too...
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“Immersive, mystery-laden tales” Paradise & Elsewhere in the Vancouver Sun
Collections tackle ‘alternate reality,’ novelists’ faults By Brett Josef Grubisic, Special to The Sun Read online What can be gleaned from the following characters picked more or less at random from...
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Paradise & Elsewhere in the Globe’s “best in new small press books.”
Paradise and Elsewhere, by Kathy Page, Biblioasis, 160 pages, $18.95 In one of Paradise and Elsewhere’s later stories a woman looks through a window of wartime glass “faulted so that the whole world...
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