Co-editor Rona Altrows and I are compiling essays, poems, and illustrations about shyness.
In addition to being writers and editors, we are both shy people, and we see a gap in the shyness books currently on the market. To fill that gap, we are creating Shy. Our aim is to give voice, through artful and [...]
I ghostwrite everything from reports to full-length manuscripts, and I edit fiction and nonfiction, and corporate and academic writing. Please contact me for details and rates or a sample of my work.
In October, 2008, I was interviewed about ghostwriting for Shelagh Rogers’ CBC show, The Next Chapter. You can listen here.
I most recently worked with [...]
My first novel, Cricket in Fist, was published by Goose Lane Editions in the spring of 2008.
QUILL & QUIRE STARRED REVIEW:
Mothers and daughters, guilt and anger, holding onto the past or abandoning it completely – these are the themes that course through Naomi K. Lewis’s stellar debut novel. The book, which is based on [...]
Creative Writing Level 1
Fall 2010
Mount Royal University
Craft and Catharsis
November 6, 2010
Alexandra Writers’ Centre
Many adults begin writing to work through momentous, often traumatic, personal events or circumstances. “Craft and Catharsis” speaks to the vital distinction between writing out trauma or crisis for the sake of healing, and writing about these experiences for an audience. We [...]