Newport Folk Festival

‘Twas a busy weekend in Newport this last.There were events all over the place. Words, Words, Words was one and featured a mixture of spoken and sung words, poets, prose writers, non-fiction writers and singer-songwriters. I was amongst the spoken word crowd and...

Welcome Marsha!

Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch’s novel Stolen Child is the Crystal Kite Winner for the Americas, which encompasses Canada, Mexico, Central and South America.She has received numerous awards and honours for her dozen-plus children’s books.In addition to receiving...

Welcome Ann Angel

Crystal Kite Winner for Minnesota/Iowa/Nebraska/Wisconsin/Illinois/Michigan/Indiana/OhioAnn Angel believes it was amazing fortune that brought Janis Joplin’s music and style into her life when, as a teen, she preferred writing bad poetry and drawing to Janis’s songs...

Crystal Kiters

Over the next few weeks, I’ll be hosting fellow-winners of the Crystal Kite Awards. I thought it might be interesting to meet some creators from around the world. Initially, I’ll just be posting a jpeg of their winning books and a brief bio with links to...

Flowers and Lace

I had lunch with my cousin yesterday, at her house. Delightful as that was, it was not the whole reason for being there. She’s sorting out things and one of those ‘things’ was a suitcase full of lace. Lace that mostly came from our grandmother. There...