Sylvia McNicoll

The biggest win wasn’t the cheque, although thank you very much to Reliable Life Insurance for sponsoring my groceries for a week. (We eat a lot too and there may be crabs’ legs this week) The amazing gift was that Ron Ulrich, Managing Artistic Director of Theatre…

A Morning of Inspiration The sweet scent of exotic blossom mingled with a heavier wet earth smell, An orange and white flash of fins and tails, The smooth gloss feeling of the leaf we’re not labeled back more discount cialis online mine conditioner product price…

In English I’ve titled this story Dying to Go Viral. In Norwegian, it appears to be Tur-Retur evigheten. Fourteen-year old Jade dies “skitching”, skateboarding hitched to the back of a car. She promised her dad she would wear a helmet at all times…

This is a historical post in that it refers back to October 18. Kelly Duffin (Executive Director of The Writers Union of Canada) and I were dashing in to hear the second reading of Bill C11, the copyright bill. But I stopped at the Eternal Flame to read Lena…

As part of my job as magazine editor, I often help or come up with “cover lines”, “heds” and “deks”.A “hed” is the title of an article, a “dek” is the preamble to further explain what’s in the…

Here’s the first 900 words of a new book for me coming out in the spring with my new publisher Lorimer. The book was originally called The Forty-First Hour, because it’s structured around the forty compulsory hours of volunteer work Sonja aka Sunny must do…