CSL BLOG: Jason Norman. Interviewer, Lauren West
Jason Norman, a person with an amusing personality, an excitement for connecting writers across Alberta, and a talent for writing short fiction! Norman grew up in the small city of Fort Saskatchewan just outside of Edmonton. He has traveled to both South America and England where he lived for nearly two years. Initially staying close […]
Interview with Ellyn Schaffner by Yohan Madhani
Ellyn Schaffner is a Canadian blog writer and homemaker who lives with her family in rural Alberta. She has been teaching kids for the past 32 years. She started writing from an early age and was appreciated for her writing skills since her childhood. She got her master’s degree at Walden University. She claims that […]
Alex Bali interviews Nancy Bell
Nancy Bell is a widely acknowledged writer based out of Alberta. She is a member of both the Writers Union of Canada and the Writers Guild of Alberta. She boasts a long and successful career highlighted by the many prestigious awards she has received and the various international conferences she has presented at. Most recently […]
Kira Conroy CSL Interview with Pam Clark
CSL Project: A Personal Interview with Pam Clark Connecting authors with different experiences can lessen the divide between beginners who are insecure about their writing and experienced authors who may have the facade of being too “professional” to guide others along their way. In an interview with Pam Clark I learn more about her inspiration […]
Kate Yaschuk’s Interview of Graeme Connell
For Graeme Connell, inspiration for writing has always come from the environment around him. From the New Zealand countryside he explored in his youth, to the barren lands of Antarctica, and across the diversity of Canada, the people and places Mr. Connell has visited power his writing. Each experience has become more meaningful in its […]
Sambhavi Thirupurasanthiran interviews Shirlee Matheson
Shirlee Matheson is a Canadian author who has lived throughout the Western Canada provinces, and she draws from her experiences in these places to write many of her diverse books which intrigued me immediately. Currently living in Calgary, Alberta, she is part of the Writers’ Guild of Alberta which is how I got the incredible […]
Hunter Boyer interviews Lisa Mulrooney
CSL Blog Project Lisa Mulrooney is a poet raised out of Redditch, England, and currently lives in Stony Plain, Alberta. At the age of fifteen, Lisa and her family immigrated to Canada where she spent the later part of her teenage years. The literature Lisa’s parents shared with her as a child had a heavy influence […]
Kaylee Emslie interviews Brent Man
I have chosen to interview Brent Man as a writer, and after thinking long and hard, I decided to ask these questions, for this is where my curiosity peaked. I was curious as a young writer on how one decides to pursue writing to the utmost extent, and what decisions and choices they made along […]
Interview of Dr. Robert Runte by McGill Casault
Influences and Changes in Modern Writing; An Interview with Dr. Robert Runté Dr. Robert Runté is a decorated editor, reviewer, presenter, and author with work that spans both education and entertainment. He left his position as a professor of sociology at the University of Lethbridge to pursue freelance editing and writing full time. Dr. Runté […]
Ella Dunlop interviews Kimmy Beach
An Interview with Kimmy Beach I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Kimmy Beach, a Canadian writer known for her works in poetry. She received her First-Class Honours Degree in English from the University of Alberta, and also works as an editor, offering degrees of support to new or established writers. Kimmy has published […]