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Sheila Peters

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Powell River, Canada
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Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction

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The short stories of Alice Munro, the novels of Michael Ondaatje, Barb ...more

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Born in the coastal BC town of Powell River, Sheila Peters moved inland to the mountains near Smithers in northwestern BC over 40 years ago. She married and raised two sons while working as a journalist, weaver, college instructor, environmental and human rights activist. She and her husband have recently returned to live in Powell River.

Her work has appeared in several Canadian literary journals, including Event, Prairie Fire, Grain, The Malahat Review, and Descant.

Creekstone Press published her first book, Canyon Creek: A Script in 1998 and Beach Holme Press in Vancouver published Tending the Remnant Damage, a collection of linked short stories, in 2001. The weather from the west came out in 2007 and The Taste of Ashes, a novel, was publi ...more

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Swimming in Gaza

I was overjoyed to read in the Guardian that Amjed Tantesh has resumed teaching children in Gaza how to swim. (He took this photo for the newspaper.)

A couple of years ago, I read about his crusade to reduce, fractionally, the fear many residents of Gaza feel towards to their beautiful beaches. Most have never learned to swim and many die in those waters. Without the infrastructure (that’s an u

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The Taste of Ashes
3.94 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions
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Shafted A Mystery
3.67 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2014
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Tending the Remnant Damage
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Canyon Creek: A script
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The Weather from the West
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Shafted: A Mystery
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Intentional Play: A Practic...
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