Magie Dominic's Blog

Registration will soon be closing for the June/July 2019 writer's retreat:
A Summer Retreat for Writers
June 27 @ 5:00 pm - July 1 @ 1:00 pm $475

https://mariandale.org/event/writing-...

Whether your writing is for personal journals or for publication, there are aspects we share as writers. This retreat is centered on the belief that when we leave behind the disruptions of our busy lives and gather in a supportive community, we make important breakthroughs in our daily life and in our writing.

This retreat will reinforce the writer’s life, (re)-discover the writer’s soul, offer daily workshops, craft discussion, feedback, motivation, inspiration, time to work on new or existing projects, and time to just relax with a secluded view of the mountains and river. The retreat is open to everyone: for those who journal and for writers of every genre.

Writers will sharpen writing skills, meet other exceptional writers, have time to relax in a quiet peaceful environment, and enjoy meals and plenty of breaks. You will be energized by the support, literary guidance, relaxation, and encouragement. Come write, then spend some time relaxing by the pool or just taking in the beautiful Hudson River views!

Date & Time: Thurs., June 27, 5:00pm through Mon., July 1 at 1:00pm
Presenter: Magie Dominic
Fee: $475 (all inclusive)

Registration is open for my January 26 writing retreat. 9:30am -5:30pm.
January 26, 2019, $75
One hour outside NYC at Mariandale Center.
I welcome all #writers for a day of writing workshops, sharing, rest and renewal!
Registration information:
https://mariandale.org/event/writing-...

"A Writer’s Oasis Weekend" November 1- November 4

This retreat is open to writers of every genre, with an emphasis on non-fiction and memoir. Sharpen writing skills, attend daily workshops, relax with secluded views of mountains and river, enjoy meals and plenty of breaks, and be energized by the support and guidance. For those interested, there’ll be an overview of the publication process. Enjoy the solitude and time. You will be inspired!

http://mariandale.org/event/a-writers...

Registration is open for the July 5th - July 9th, 2018
Magie Dominic "Summer Writing Retreat" - NY.

"Finding #Inspiration, #Contemplation, and #Creativity".
Fee includes a private room, all meals and all workshops.

http://mariandale.org/event/summer-re...

There's a new essay by Magie Dominic @magiedominic just published w/ @AntiochReview
http://bit.ly/2yEOX7X
~ "The Fisherman and the Photograph" about the life of a #Newfoundland #fisherman, #memories and the mighty, ever changing #ocean.
A Newfoundland & Labrador story.

" Not a lot has changed in the past fifty years in small Newfoundland villages except most people now are on Facebook. It’s a hi-tech version of the old-fashioned party-line telephone."
http://bit.ly/2yEOX7X
http://magiedominic.blogspot.com/

"Street Angel" was awarded the Independent Publisher Book Awards Silver Medal for Canada-East - Best Regional Non-Fiction (2016).

"STREET ANGEL", from Wilfrid Laurier University Press, won the Independent Publisher Book Awards Silver Medal - for Eastern Canada non-fiction.
http://www.wlupress.wlu.ca/press/Cata...

CANADA, East. NON - FICTION:
http://www.independentpublisher.com/a...

The director, writer, and actor, Cady McClain, sent the following tweet on October 17th re: THE QUEEN OF PEACE ROOM:

"Great review for my friend Magie's book, "The Queen of Peace Room." Please check it out!
"Memories are like... http://fb.me/2gdeWTQiG
The Queen of Peace Room

Here's a fantastic review of STREET ANGEL, my new memoir from WLU Press.
http://www.antigonishreview.com/index...…

"....Dominic writes as Julius Caesar spoke (“I came, I saw, I conquered.”), as Dickens wrote, and as Toni Morrison writes. The style is immediate and emotive. It also makes for a fasten-your-seat-belt read."

"The first thing you need to know about Magie Dominic’s memoir, Street Angel, is that it is a poetic and circular windstorm, both humorous and disturbing. The second thing you need to know is that the tale is steeped in Newfoundland language and sensibility. Third, Newfoundland has been called “the other Ireland.” If you know these things, all else becomes clear.

The title is a part of an old Irish expression, “street angel, house devil.” This describes a person who is charming in public and abusive in private. At the heart of this life story is Dominic’s mentally ill mother, civil on the street, but violent and volatile at home. The reader will hear much of the mother’s “affliction,” which manifests as terrifying nighttime hallucinations, and in futile, repetitive measures to ward off evil. “In her own way,” writes Dominic, “street angel, house devil. She’s lonely, frightened, demanding, violent, and superstitious. And Presbyterian.” "

Street Angel by Magie Dominic. (Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2014, 150 pp., $22.49)

Reviews Street Angel review in The Coastal Spectator

The Queen of Peace Room review, Tidings, Los Angeles weekly

 Finalist for 2014 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year in Autobiography and Memoir

Open Book Ontario interview

Street Angel review on Buried in Print

Interview in Book Reader Magazine

Interview on Canadian Writers Abroad

Posting on Heather King's Blog


 

Street Angel opens to the voice of an eleven-year-old Dominic. She’s growing up in Newfoundland. Her mother suffers from terrifying nighttime hallucinations. Her father’s business is about to collapse. She layers the world she hears on radio and television onto her family, speaking in paratactic prose with a point-blank delivery. She finds relief only in the glamour of Hollywood films and the majesty of Newfoundland’s wilderness.

Revealing her life through flashbacks, humor, and her signature self-confidence, Dominic takes readers from 1950s Newfoundland to 1960s Pittsburgh, 1970s New York, and the end of the millennium in Toronto. Capturing the long days of childhood, this book questions how important those days are in shaping who we become as we age and time seems to speed up. With quick brush-stroke chapters Dominic chronicles sixty years of a complex, secretive family in this story about violence, adolescence, families, and forgiveness.

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Street Angel Review in The Coastal Spectator


The Queen of Peace Room reviewThe Tidings, Los Angeles weekly newspaper  Finalist for 2014 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year
 in Autobiography and Memoir


Open Book Ontario interview
Street Angel Review on Buried in Print
Interview in Book Reader Magazine
Interview on Canadian Writers Abroad
Posting on Heather King's Blog



contact magiedominic at g mail.com
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2015


JAN:  Street Angel review, Buried in Print:
           “Countdown: Magie Dominic and Ann-Marie  MacDonald”              The Queen of Peace Room, top 10 most inspiring books, Bread ‘n Molasses magazine.
FEB:   Street Angel review reprinted on Leafmarks’ Reviews             Street Angel review reprinted on LibraryThing
MAR:   Caffe Cino presentation at Fales Library Special Collections, NYU              Street Angel reviewed in The Coastal Spectator             What It’s Like To Get a Great Review published on 2paragraphs.com               Street Angel Finalist for the 2014 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year                in Autobiography and Memoir
APR:   Four Landscapes: collage, published on Empty Mirror Literary & Arts Magazine 
MAY:  Essay published: C autionaryTales: Giving Voice to the Elders

JUNE:   Video of Caffe Cino presentation at Fales Library Special Collections, NYU.                Book Review – Street Angel EmptyMirror Books
 
                 Street Angel featured on Authors Showcase at Venture Galleries 

 
AUG: The Queen of Peace Room review in Tidings, Los Angeles weekly newspaper

       
      



 







                                                 2014 

APR:     Magie Dominic/Caffe Cino Archives, Lincoln Center, new documentation added.
MAY:   Street Angel excerpt on 2paragraphs.com
JUN:    “The Sixties: Its Theatre and Everything Else” published on 2paragraphs.com             Moderated panel for The League of Canadian Poets; presented paper, "Cautionary Tales"
JUL:    “The Sixties: November 23, 1963” published on 2paragraphs.com
              Interview, “On Writing, with Magie Dominic”, OPEN BOOK ONTARIO, July 17.
JULY 24:  Street Angelreleased!  Wilfrid Laurier University Press
AUG:    “When the Bowery Was Skid Row” published on 2paragraphs.com
SEPT:   “The Story of Caffé Cino” - Talk and reading. (video), Jefferson Market Library, NYC, 9/18                Street Angel, book launch, Writer's Room, NY, 9/23                Street Angel, book reading and signing, Bluestockings Bookstore, NYC, 9/26
OCT:    “The Caffe Cino:Lanford Wilson, Bette Midler and Everyone in Between” published on     2paragraphs.com               Interview, "MagieDominic", Canadian Writers Abroad, 10/28


NOV:    "Magie Dominic: New York, by way of Newfoundland"
               Op-Ed published in National Post, 11/13
               Gave thanks.

DEC:      "A New York Newfoundland Christmas" published on 2paragraphs.com
                "Street Angel" reviewed on Amazon.com  





  The Queen of Peace Room


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2013
APR:   Essay long listed for The Vanderbilt Exile Short Fiction Award.

MAY:  Writing and art archives entered into NYU Fales Library Permanent  Collection.

JUN:  Moderated panel for The League of Canadian Poets, Feminist Caucus, Toronto.          Will present paper at 2014 panel: Invisible: Ageing and the Female Voice. 


AUG: Selected for ASI (Artists Summer Institute) Lower Manhattan Cultural Council:          Illustrations from The Queen of Peace Room shown during presentation.          Images of installation The Gown of Stillness shown during presentation.   

         Art documentation added to Rooms Provincial Museum, Newfoundland.

OCT:  New book, Street Angel, forthcoming, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2014!

NOV:   Gave thanks.
 
DEC:   Street Angel webpage established. Book can be viewed here.