by Paul Cavanagh | Jan 16, 2016 | Events, On Writing and Writers
Inspired by an urban myth about Ernest Hemingway, I’m inviting you to write a tiny story and share it with me. I’ll display my favourites (with full credit to their authors) when I appear at Chapters bookstore, 1037 Wellington Road, London, Ontario on...
by Paul Cavanagh | Apr 2, 2013 | On Writing and Writers
My obsession with a female matador revealed surprising parallels between bullfighting and the act of writing, says Elizabeth Ruth (Originally published in Quill & Quire, January / February 2013) It all began one Saturday morning six years ago when I was in my...
by Paul Cavanagh | Jan 13, 2012 | On Writing and Writers
If I hadn’t by chance heard a tongue-in-check fifteen-second spot on the CBC Arts Report as I drove into work one day back in 2004, I never would have heard about the event that launched my writing career. It sounded like a joke to me at first. The London...
by Paul Cavanagh | Jan 13, 2012 | On Writing and Writers
Note: This post contains an imbedded video which may not be viewable on all devices. If you were to do a Google search on the difference between fiction and nonfiction, you’d find a lot of results that come back telling you nonfiction is real and fiction is fake. In...
by Paul Cavanagh | Dec 7, 2011 | On Writing and Writers
Quick. Name a writer who lives in London, Ontario. When presented with this challenge, many of us come up empty. Some might manage a name or two. Big names in fiction like Emma Donoghue, author of the internationally-acclaimed novel Room. Or Bonnie Burnard, winner of...
