Sylvia McNicoll
Canadian Author for Young People
Epic Effort of the Year
My writing friends know I’m working on a fictional story about a Slam Poetry team, the climax of which could be a transgendered youth performing a love poem to the unsuspecting main character, Liam, aka Shakespeare. For some of the research I’ve attended many slams…
Packaging Your Imagination
Ten Hot Tips I learned at Packaging Your Imagination. Okay maybe I didn’t learn these ten tips all brand new, maybe some were things I knew deep down inside and just had confirmed. After some twenty years of attending these day long seminars where I volunteered…
Judging the Braille Writing Contest
The CNIB helped me with the research for A Different Kind of Beauty. While my Bringing Up Beauty series was immensely successful both in Canada and in Norway, Sweden, Finland and Germany–immensely successful did not translate into wealth. More like a bit of…
A toast to Eli Torensen and Anne Ramberg!
On September 30, 2015, I raise my glass to a publishing team I’ve never personally met, Eli Toresen and Anne Ramberg! On this day, after some thirty-two years of producing wonderful reads for girls in many countries, they retire. To back track a little: In 2001…
For Paul Kropp–The Last Project
Paul Kropp and I go way back to 1988 when I took his writing course at Sheridan College and through it wrote my first novel Blueberries and Whipped Cream, quickly followed by Jump Start for Paul’s famed Series Canada for reluctant readers. Over the…
HiphopHighTea Hamilton Youth Poets
The point is not the crustless sandwiches or the scones or homemade shortbread, chocolate chip cookies and cupcakes The point is not the creme brulée tea, or the Copa Cabana green tea or any of the other varieties. The point is the poetry. Listening to…
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