“Spoken word has been a good stepping stone for me but I do think that writing young-adult fiction is where my real passion lies”
by : Sal Sawler
by : Sal Sawler
“Spoken word has been a good stepping stone for me but I do think that writing young-adult fiction is where my real passion lies”
by : Sal Sawler
“I was in this flux in my life, and…reading Michael Winter’s book, about this guy going through all the same stuff, really resonated with me”
by : Sal Sawler
The illustrator’s “after-work for-fun work” has really paid off
by : Sal Sawler
The best-selling author on learning how to write a novel…every single time
by : Sal Sawler
She has long used the writing conventions of the genres she loves to explore greater possibilities for living
by : Sal Sawler
Advocate author Darren Greer has been trying to get a 10/10 out of his high school English teacher since Grade 11
by : Sal Sawler
She’s the author of a book of poetry called Of Feathers and Fire: Fragments From a Fractured Mind
by : Sal Sawler
Her mother and her mother’s friends were her first editors and Margaret Lawrence was one of her first critics.
by : Sal Sawler
“It was not good when I started it.”
by : Sal Sawler
“Voices started to shout, ‘Preach it!’ ‘Testify!’ ‘You’re home now!’”
by : Sal Sawler
“That summer — 1975 — I started to write songs. I wrote four songs a day and I did that for two or three years.”
by : Sal Sawler
For Sewell, stories are a way to share information, to pass on messages, to report on what is happening in the world now and explore the things that have happened in the past, so that we can apply those lessons to our present and our future.
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