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Book and Writing
“…The Measure of a Man is an unforgettable story of love, forgiveness, and discovering what it means to be your own man.”
Finalist for the Hilary Weston Writer’s Trust Prize for Literary Non-Fiction (2012), the BC Book Prize’s Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize (2012), the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction (2012), and the Governor General’s Literary Award - Non-Fiction (2011).
Find out more about The Measure of a Man.
“For Memoirists” is a guided writing exercise through one’s own memories that is anthologized in Resonance: Essays on the Craft and Life of Writing (Anvil Press, 2022).
Edited by Andrew Chesham and Laura Farina, the writing craft book “brings together insights from writers and publishes across Canada on the practices that fuel their work, and invites readers to join the conversation through a series of engaging writing prompts.”
You can find out more at Anvil Press.
“Nine Acres” is a flash fiction work commissioned by writer/editor Karen Schauber for the centenary of the first exhibtion by the iconic Canadian landscape painters the Group of Seven in 1920.
The Group of Seven Reimagined: Contemporary Stories Inspired By Historic Canadian Paintings (Heritage House, 2019) had each writer assigned a painting from which to draw out a story.
“Nine Acres” is inspired by L.L. Fitzgerald’s Late Fall, Manitoba, 1917.
SHORT READS
With prom nights cancelled for a second year due to COVID, JJ Lee mourns the missed rite of passage that his sons won’t get to experience—and the chance to revisit his own prom through them.
In this age of the smartphone, who still plugs an old-fashioned rotary dial into the wall? Essayist JJ Lee makes a case for the enduring charm of the landline lifestyle
You would think being shut away from the world would give you privacy. But Canadian writer JJ Lee finds himself struggling with the odd exposure of having everyone staring into your home through Zoom.
