On Creative Writing

Kurt Vonnegut explains how to write the three stories everyone loves!
https://www.upworthy.com/kurt-vonnegut-writing-tips-ex1

Inspiring and exciting to see renowned Canadian poet Lorna Crozier deliver the Monica Miller Memorial Lecture last evening, and then be interviwed by poet Alice Major!

The personal and political are inseparable. German novelist Jenny Erpenbeck considers the relics of an earlier age in a newly translated essay collection.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/books/review/jenny-erpenbeck-things-that-disappear.html

In the US wholesale electricity costs up to 267% more than it did 5 years ago near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.
https://paenvironmentdaily.blogspot.com/2025/10/in-case-you-missed-it-aidata-center.html

Luke Hathaway, Andrea Cote and Major Jackson to judge 2026 Griffin Poetry Prize:
https://www.cbc.ca/books/luke-hathaway-andrea-cote-and-major-jackson-to-judge-2026-griffin-poetry-prize-1.7650406

Laotian-Canadian poet Souvankham Thammavongsa discusses her debut novel, 'Pick a Color'
https://www.npr.org/2025/10/04/nx-s1-5522300/laotian-canadian-poet-souvankham-thammavongsa-discusses-her-debut-novel-pick-a-color

Thank you Kim for being such an enthusiastic and curious podcast host, and Natalie for being such an insightful guest!

Writer's block isn't all in the head. Author Maggie Rowe explores the body's connection to creativity:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/bodhisattva-wannabe/202510/writers-block-its-not-in-your-head/amp

On The Next Chapter with Antonio Michael Downing he and guest creative writing professor Robert J. Wiersema discuss three books that can help you be a better writer:
https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-67-the-next-chapter/clip/16173454-want-better-writer-read-books

Melanie Schnell, Award-winning author and Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Regina, reveals her writing process in this Q&A interview:
https://www.oncreativewriting.com/post/writing-process-and-creative-path-an-interview-with-author-melanie-schnell

On today's CBC's The Next Chapter, host Antonio Michael Downing talks with author and creative writing professor Robert J. Wiersema, who recommends three books to make you a better writer.
https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-67-the-next-chapter/clip/16173454-want-better-writer-read-books

Poet Lynn Tait's new book of poetry You Break It You Buy It is a collection of elegies railing against and dealing with toxic relationships. Read Lynn's interview about the craft of poetry:
https://www.oncreativewriting.com/post/lynn-tait-poetry-as-an-evolving-craft

An important part implementing of AI at any level of education, not just university. 'Universities can turn AI from a threat to an opportunity by teaching critical thinking'
https://theconversation.com/universities-can-turn-ai-from-a-threat-to-an-opportunity-by-teaching-critical-thinking-266187

Author Nadia Ragbar on balancing vision and flexibility in her writing - from liminal spaces to publication:
https://www.oncreativewriting.com/post/balancing-vision-and-flexibility-a-writer-s-journey-from-liminal-spaces-to-publication

Find essential creative writing tips drawn from Dorothea Brande and Anne Lamott in this auido essay from writing coach and mentor Fiona Fenwick!
https://www.oncreativewriting.com/podcast-1/episode/28ccb187/the-best-lessons-from-dorothea-brande-and-anne-lamott-from-a-writing-coach

How does a writing coach work with a writer? Well, how about little listen into a coaching session? Find it here in my interview with coach and mentor Fiona Fenwick!
https://www.oncreativewriting.com/podcast-1/episode/21566cd8/how-a-writing-coach-helps-creative-writers-become-unstuck

I had so much fun talking to Natalie Lim about her stellar book, Elegy For Opportunity.

Thanks for letting me get behind the mic, @sheelaghcaygill.bsky.social and @oncreativewriting.bsky.social!

A lovely conversation between poet @kimmannix.bsky.social and poet Natalie Lim. Podcast episode coming in a few days.

Writer's Spark Coaching contest | On Creative Writing The Writer's Spark Coaching Competition - one winner a chance to win one prize of writing coaching, a one-year to Brain.fm, an editing session, and an interview!

The @oncreativewriting.bsky.social Writer's Spark Coaching Competition is open. Creative Writers! Want to win some powerful coaching and more? The prize is coaching from Fiona Fenwick, one-year free of Brain.fm editing with me, & an interview on OCW!
www.oncreativewriting.com/writers-spar...

The Oxford Centre for Life-Writing has talks on all aspects of life-writing through program of events including lectures, performances, panel discussions, conferences, and more! Most are free and many are online!
https://oclw.web.ox.ac.uk/events

Creative writers! How does a free boost in motivation, one-year free of Brain.fm, and more sound? You can win this and more in our Writers Spark Coaching Competition! Details here:
https://www.oncreativewriting.com/post/ignite-your-writing-journey-the-writer-s-spark-coaching-competition

🎧 New podcast episode alert! "How a Writing Coach Helps Creative Writers Become Unstuck," with coach and mentor Fiona Fenwick!
https://www.oncreativewriting.com/podcast-1/episode/21566cd8/how-a-writing-coach-helps-creative-writers-become-unstuck

This also why it's dangerous. Depending on how a question or prompt is worded, it can be pro or for anything. And it draws information from online - both accurate and inaccurate sources.

Memoir is incredibly popular at this moment in time, but can be plagued with issues around truth. Richard Beard says he’s got ‘better at telling the truth’ by arranging his life story on a grid – and invites others to do the same:
https://tinyurl.com/5aaw6xy6

Writer's Spark Coaching contest | On Creative Writing The Writer's Spark Coaching Competition - one winner a chance to win one prize of writing coaching, a one-year to Brain.fm, an editing session, and an interview!

The Writer's Spark Coaching Competition is open. Creative Writers! Want to win some powerful coaching and more? The prize is coaching from Fiona Fenwick, one-year free of Brain.fm , editing with @sheelaghcaygill.bsky.social , and an interview on our site!
www.oncreativewriting.com/writers-spar...

Rosanna Micelotta Battigelli on why creative writer's must be persistent, especially after rejection!
https://www.oncreativewriting.com/post/on-writers-persistance-believe-in-yourself-dont-give-up

the world folds itself
into origami distances
and every crease
shapes a new horizon
where we are both lost
and found in its lines

#Photography Ephlam
@josephlm.bsky.social

Thank you so much, Sadiqa!

My thanks to On Creative Writing for the chance to talk about the writing process & software that writes for us & other matters.

New Interview. On Creative Writing with C.J. Lavigne. "Don't be chasing trends — write the thing only you can write." Cover of the Drowned Man's Daughter and author photo of C.J. Lavigne. Barbour Books and NeWest Press.

✨ NEW INTERVIEW✨ with @cjlavigne.com and @oncreativewriting.bsky.social . Check out this interview and it's advice to young writers from the sparkling Canadian talent that is C.J. Lavigne.

Books by C.J. Lavigne
- The Drowned Man's Daughter
- In Veritas