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What, Why, How: Charlene Diane Jones

March 10, 2016 By Linda K Sienkiewicz

WHAT? I write across years, across pages, across oceans of memory. My poetry has been published widely in Canada and the US reaching a peak in 1996 with my poetry partner Linda Stitt in our book … Continue reading >>

Helen Peppe on Honesty and Memoir: Pigs Can’t Swim

February 28, 2016 By Linda K Sienkiewicz

Helen Peppe's memoir, Pigs Can't Swim, is a pinnacle of family dysfunction: funny, heart wrenching, stupefying and sometimes infuriating. Her parents' insistence on nonsensical rules, old wive's tales … Continue reading >>

Vampira – She’s like Family

February 26, 2016 By Linda K Sienkiewicz

Shirtail Relatives My cousin says we should call ourselves "shirttail relatives" of Vampira. Maila Nurmi, aka Vampira, was born in 1921 in Petsamo, Finland. My grandmother, who was also born in … Continue reading >>

Reading in Public: How I Conquered my Fears

February 16, 2016 By Linda K Sienkiewicz

Most people are terrified to speak in public. As a writer who's read in more coffee shops and libraries than I can count, I was once terrified, too. Here are two of my worst moments, and 10 … Continue reading >>

5 stars for Panic in a Suitcase, a Novel

February 9, 2016 By Linda K Sienkiewicz

Panic in a Suitcase follows the lives of the Nasmertovs, who emigrate from Odessa, for over two decades. The elders wonder if they made the right choice in moving to America while at the same time … Continue reading >>

What, Why, How: Charlene Diane Jones

Helen Peppe on Honesty and Memoir: Pigs Can’t Swim

5 stars for Panic in a Suitcase, a Novel

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