Times have been stormy, huh? I’m grateful to have been able to gather for some storytelling about community care, resilience, and ‘riff-raff’. Block Shop Books also delighted today with the first little review and recap of the book.
Read More
Join us on October 4, 2020 at the Lunenburg School of the Arts for the launch of A GREAT BIG NIGHT. Get your signed copy, and bring the kids for a reading and celebration of rallying together through stormy times. Fitting, huh?
Read More
With thanks to the Atlantic Book Awards and the Writers Federation of Nova Scotia, and cheers to all the nominees and winners! Our region overflows with talent, and I was thrilled to walk in the fog with some of the people I admire so much.
Read More
I’m thrilled to go to St. John’s, Newfoundland and spend time with an incredible posse of writers and poets from my Atlantic region, many of whom are long-standing friends and mentors. Thanks, Atlantic Book Awards! I’m chuffed.
Read More
ViewPoint Gallery and Bookmark II present an intimate salon with NOTES FOR THE EVERLOST author Kate Inglis—with stimulating conversation and shared creative work to explore the riddle and illumination of living healthfully with loss.
Read More
Lexicon Books invites you to the launch of NOTES FOR THE EVERLOST: A FIELD GUIDE TO GRIEF at a gorgeous hundred-year old barn in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. Further details here, or hop over to the event page on Facebook. See you there!
Read More
This book is a family-heirloom treasure. A lazy-day cuddle, a dreamscape by the woodstove, a favourite when the grandkids come over. I'd gush over this beautiful creation even if I weren't in it! Order your copy today for ocean-watchers in your life.
Read More
TD Book Week was a terrific, well-oiled machine of a tour. School after school, libraries, a children's museum, hundreds of faces: magically healing stuff. It's such a big deal to hear kids laugh at your stories, and shout at you in unison to give 'em anudder.
Read More
I've been chosen for TD Canadian Children's Book Week 2017, a national effort that brings Maritime authors and illustrators to the Yukon, Manitobans to Newfoundland, and Albertans to Nunavut for a dizzying week of workshops.
Read More
I'm thrilled to be presenting, reading, and signing books at this weekend's Word on the Street Festival in Halifax! Bring your little beasts to the festival's homebase of the Halifax Central Library this Saturday, September 17, 2016.
Read More
Let's raise every glass of green monster punch to Nimbus, Eric Orchard, Woozles, the Halifax Zombie Walk folks, and every other little goblin, robot, and alien who came out to the book launch at the Halifax Central Library to celebrate. Brains!
Read More
Four sessions of dozens of kids in one day. No matter where I am, it always starts off the same: What's the biggest library rule? ... BE QUIET they say, in that obedient sing-songy chorus. One kid in the back says NO FLYING SIDE KICKS.
Read More
If I Were A Zombie—monsters-and-magical-creatures poems for preschoolers and early-grade goofballs, as illustrated by the award-winning Eric Orchard—is here! Time to crack out my classroom growl, the one that makes the kids giggle.
Read More
Prizes! Fun! Healthy goblin eyeball snacks! The launch party for If I Were A Zombie will be Saturday, May 21st from 2-4 PM at the sparkling-new Halifax Central Library, one of few public institutions that's totally down with a free-for-all tickle trunk.
Read More
Play with words. Have fun and someday, when you're running through a sprinkler or eating a hot dog or drifting off to sleep, you'll feel a tap on your shoulder, and a voice in your ear like it's being whispered through a tin can telephone. Be ready.
Read More
When you make space for art, you become a magnet for other people who make space for art. And people like that are weird and rare and fantastic. They throw wood onto our fires and they make the room warm. Oddity fuels oddity when everything else is beige.
Read More
I come to oil country with a book about radicals who wish for the end of pipelines. But that's not what it's about. It's the friction of prosperity and concern, ability and disability, well-placed outrage and courage. It's banjo song and smoke in your eye.
Read More
I fly into Edmonton and on from there to schools in Lethbridge and Stand Off—passing through with gifts for them and soaking it up, reading, stocking their library with Missy and airborne resistance.
Read More
If you're writing an environmental revenge fantasy, the big story, for now, is under that big sky. Or one of the big stories. All that black gold. A guy from Fort McMurray said over and over again I don't know what happened. Everything's gone.
Read More
I don't know if it's fair to feel like the luckiest person in the world when there are people in the world who fall from a third-story window and get caught by a street vendor. But I do, god, I do. The book launch is tomorrow.
Read More