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Pam Bustin

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Born

in Regina, Canada

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Literature & Fiction, Young Adult, Gay & Lesbian

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I was raised in a host of small towns across the prairies and live (mostly) in Chapleau Ontario.

My first novel Mostly Happy was published in February 2008 by Thistledown Press. You can find out more about the book, see some pics of the Mostly Happy book tour and giggle at some videos on the Mostly Happy Page on facebook.

My play Saddles in the Rain won the John V. Hicks award in 2002, and was published by Playwrights Canada Press in the anthology The West of all Possible Worlds in 2004. My other stage plays include barefoot and The Passage of Georgia O’Keeffe. Three of my radio dramas (Coffee in Lloyd, The White Car Project and Talking with the Dead) have aired on CBC Radio and my short fiction has appeared in The New Quarterly, Spring! and ...more

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Journaling with Jenny! How I use different types of journals in my writing practice (and LIFE)

I was recently invited to do a podcast interview with Jennifer Troester about journaling.I love Jenny and her podcast and journaling, so I leapt at the chance to chat with her about it. You can leap over and listen in HERE: Spotifyhttps://open.spotify.com/episode/7o0D... Applehttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Or... Read more of this blog post »

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“If you have children, trust them completely, all the time, no matter what. If you don't trust them, pretend that you do. Listen to everything they say and take their advice. Believe them.

Trust everyone. Everyone behaves better when they feel they're trusted. Nobody wins a fight; the trick is to behave decently no matter what. The trick is to make love a lot. And think of it as making love. Always be making love.

Read lots of books. Read books from foreign countries. Forget yourself. Get lost in it. Give yourself over. Look up from your book and see that it is dark now and everything has changed.”
― Lisa Moore

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“People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”
― Logan Pearsall Smith

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“We're here to get each other through this thing, whatever it is.”
― Mark Vonnegut

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“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”
― Ernest Hemingway

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“Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

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No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it!) Goodreads honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here. ~~~ "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." -- Carl Sandburg “God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.” —Anne Sexton On Clouds – “…what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about…” —Yevgeny Zamyatin “If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn’t wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.” —Donald Hall “Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.” —Boris Pasternak “Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.” —Charles Simic “Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.” —Gustave Flaubert “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” —Allen Ginsberg. ~~~~~ Amy King, Moderator Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women’s National Book Association). Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She is also co-editing the anthology, Bettering American Poetry 2015, and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. ...more

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