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Poetry: 3 books/ 4 chapbooks; Short Fiction: 1; CNF: 1 FN history 2020 IPPY Nonfiction Award/ Finalist: 2022 International Book Awards Resident Interviewer at The tEmz Review (London, ON, Canada) https://sharonbergauthor.wixsite.com/my-site #fiction #poet
These hand made chapbooks are 'in production' now. Order yours soon.
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I put a new post up on my substack. Check out what is happening for Big Pond Rumours Chapbook Press.
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I have four interviews in The tEmz Review for issue 33. This is one of them. David Giuliano speaks about his approach to writing 'The Unending of Wendall Forbes'.
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I took my 6 month boy, Jasper, to the groomer for his 2nd clipping yesterday. Today she sent me this picture of him. It is that season! I'm sending out best wishes to all who celebrate at some point in the next several months, whatever you celebrate. Jasper sends his best wishes too!
This is my latest post in Substack. Home truly is where your story begins and I began as a Canadian author and now I am a Resident Interviewer for a Canadian periodical.
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I invite you to check out my substack, which is free. sharonbergauthor.substack.com
Meet Jasper, my 18 week old, copper-coated, Cockapoo. When I lost my last dog, I thought I'd never take another, but I'd wake in tears I was that lonely. This boy is calm yet so comic, the perfect companion AND he gets me out walking to keep me healthy. (Photos by Erica Penney of his 1st grooming.)
Big Pond Rumours is back as a chapbook press for Canadians only
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Have to say I'm proud to share this poem at Suburban Witchcraft in Siberia! Check it out!
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Here's something to contemplate...
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Here is a recording of 4 poems read aloud that I performed in the 1980s. This was at an Art Gallery in Ottawa.
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I've got lots of books for sale. $20 each includes postage. Message me.
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Reminicse...
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This... is about a book project and personal transformation that took up about 35 years of my 37 year friendship with Elder Pauline Shirt, who passed in 2024.
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A link to my interview of a Canadian author as the Resident Interviewer for The tEmz Review. Enjoy!
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For artists only: I serve a niche group of creatives. You might be a writer, a photographer, a painter or some other creative person with a project you need to complete with few distractions outside of the gorgeous landscape. All meals are included in the price.
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Here's a direct link to another of my latest interviews at the Resident Interviewer at The tEmz Review.
I am the Resident Interviewer at The tEmz Review. Here's one of my latest interviews.
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And then there is this... Who ever thought their poetry, or even a children's book, would receive a reading at a Cat Festival?
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For my academic thesis on the history of a school, I struggled with this issue. Bottom of the page, end of a chapter, or end of the book? It may be a publishing question as the 1st 2 take more room/pages. For a biography, trust if they're interested in the story they'll turn to the end of the book.
This is short story month.
I want to offer thanks to Stevan V. Nikolic for publishing my rather strange story, 'The Shape Shifter', in "Adelaide Literary Magazine".
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I'm ever-so-touched that I was asked this question by Hollay Ghadery of River Street Writing. Ask a blunt question & you'll get a blunt answer from me.
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When you're poor, old enough to think of your end, but still writing, with umpteen manuscripts finished but not getting published fast enough... you think 'how can I speed this up?' I'm hiring help despite being stubborn about doing things on my own for decades. Oh, how I miss my workshop days!
Tidbit is my greatest writing support. He really likes Naming the Shadows (short fiction, Porcupines Quill, 2019) and Stars in the Junkyard (poetry, Cyberwit, 2020). I've got copies of both so you don't have to buy them from Amazon!
Are you up for the challenge? Read my interview with Dr. Blair Stonechild about his latest book in the latest tEmz Review.
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![2025-03-19 2:33 pm
Dear [blocked] -
I've been sitting with a certain degree of shock and horror after the recent Zoom meeting held with the jurors for the category of books I read. I still cannot believe that [blocked] spoke so openly about her 'moral' indignation, which she directed at [blocked]'s book. For one thing, it is a well-researched academic book that condenses what First Nations have been saying for centuries and places emphasis on the need to establish kinder interactions with the planet we all share. However, when she continued and claimed that the book was filled with 'lies' and 'mistruths' that really shook me hard.
[blocked] brought a level of judgement to that book that I believe displays her personal position in opposition to anything said by First Nations. I am speaking about censoring, a position no Juror of a book contest should ever bring to the table when discussing the books they are judging. Yes, I feel it lies in the same arena as book banning. I really feel very strongly about this. So strongly, in fact, that though I've tossed and turned over what I should do about it, I’m compelled to take this course of action.
To complain about a fellow Juror is not something I'd ever seen myself doing before that Zoom meeting. I’m still shaking with horror that I feel compelled to do this. However, as I said at the time, 'I'd like to see her take that attitude into a [blocked]'. I was being sarcastic, of course, meaning exactly the opposite. I believe [blocked] should be barred from being asked to fulfill the position of 'Juror' ever again. During that Zoom meeting, she tried to dominate the conversation with a loud voice. When she didn't succeed, she immediately pulled down her image for a few minutes. Coming back on she argued for cutting the meeting short or rescheduling, claiming she had medical issues to address that were at no time evident before she lost her argument.
My argument that [blocked] should be barred from acting as a J…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:upmrm54spxjq2gtopnnxdx4l/bafkreiekoj4xbrdj24uaukkher4zpyzvjn7bvbiggholxsn3bx4cy76dfq)
I never saw myself doing this... before Trump dismantled all that's humane & decent below the border. So many people are blind to the damage done when you don't 'hear' another person, burying them under your personal bias. We all need to stand up for what's good & right in every corner of our lives!
Check out my interview with Hollay Ghadrey here:
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