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March 20 Zoom Breakfast Meeting

Joyce Wayne  crafts the compelling narrative of Last Night of the World, knowing full well the world of Soviet spy Freda Linton. She herself grew up in a family where her father was a devoted member of the Communist Party of Canada until he lost his faith in the Bolsheviks.

Joyce has intimate knowledge and insights into the characters found in Last Night of the World.

She grew up a “red diaper baby” with direct experience and understanding of many of the characters in her novel. She is uniquely situated to write about this transformative period of Canadian history and the forces and personalities who provoked the beginning of the Cold War.

“I’ve heard tales of Igor Gouzenko’s defection from the time I was a child,” Joyce says. “Last Night of the World is the book I’ve always wanted to write. It is the story of the spark that ignited the Cold War from the point of view of the Canadian-Soviet spies exposed by Gouzenko, and who were charged with treason by the Canadian government. When I watched the T.V. series, The Americans, I knew the time was right to tell this story.”

Joyce Wayne is an award-winning literary journalist, a former editor at Quill & Quire and the author of the historical novel The Cook’s Temptation (Mosaic Press, 2013). For many years, she was the head of the journalism program at Sheridan College where she launched the Sheridan Centre for Internationally Trained Individuals. Joyce was a winner of the Diaspora Dialogues contest for short fiction and has been awarded the Fiona Mee Award for literary journalism. She lives in Oakville with her husband where she runs writing workshops for the Public Library and writes the bi-weekly blog RetirementMatters.ca .

 

2020 Short Story Contest Results

The Third Annual Joseph Smrdelj Short Story Contest for 2020 is now complete. Our judge, Prof Leonard Rosmarin announced the winners at our Zoom Breakfast Meeting on December 12, 2020.  

Congratulations to the winners and to all of those that entered the contest. Prof Rosmarin was impressed with all of the short stories and it was difficult to select winners.

First       Ann Birch

Second   Heather Dick

Third      Michael Croucher

 

Thelma Wheatley Launches New Novel

WEN member Thelma Wheatley has launched a new novel titled “Tamarind Sky”. The virtual launch took place on October 22 of this year. There is a youtube link below of her reading a chapter from this book.

If you like, you can watch and listen to Thelma Wheatley read Chapter 2 from her new book, TAMARIND SKY.

In this chapter (which is short) Selena , a white British girl living in Toronto takes her new fiancee, a dark-skinned Sri Lankan called Aidan, home to Wales to get married in her home town, Cardiff. Selena expects her mother to be happy and welcoming to Aidan, but Mother has different ideas. . .

Click here for the youtube link: https://youtu.be/SgJQRvdsBwM .

Aviva Mayers Launches “If Only I Had Known”

This is a book about options… options for treatment, management, and prevention of breast cancer outside of mainstream medicine. It is the result of the journey that Aviva Mayers took back to health, and many of her choices outside of mainstream medicine are discussed here. Aviva was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2008. Like millions of women throughout the world, she initially agreed to a conventional treatment out of fear and confusion. But she began to question those choices as the treatment progressed. Following her treatment she took herself on a journey to learn about gentler, less invasive, treatments outside of conventional medicine. Aviva attributes her current state of good health to the integrative and alternative paths she ultimately followed.

The book includes interviews with patients who followed a path to recovery, much of which they attribute to alternative treatments. And it includes interviews with a range of health care practitioners working with patients with breast or other cancers. The professionals share their thoughts on mainstream treatments, discuss integrative and alternative interventions that can help with recovery, and in some cases even replace conventional treatments. The book also offers advice on how to prevent breast cancer in the first place or how to avoid a recurrence.

If Only I Had Known is essential reading for anyone diagnosed with breast cancer. It provides a unique perspective on treatments that your doctor may not tell you about. Knowing about these options could improve your life both physically and psychologically. The information contained here is also relevant to people suffering from other cancers, since many of the same inflammatory processes may contribute to their cancers. Available on Amazon or FriesenPress.

The author, Aviva Mayers, is a psychoanalyst and psychotherapist in private practice in Toronto. To find out more about her  new book, call (647) 282-3943, email: amayers@rogers.com, or visit her website at: www.avivamayers.com/book

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The winners of our 2020 Short Story Contest are Ann Birch, Heather Dick and Michael Croucher

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