For those who haven't been following the latest Canlit scandal, I'll see if I can summarize this in one paragraph. Steven Galloway, the former chair of UBC's creative writing program, was suspended last November over "serious allegations". UBC provided no further explanation, creating a climate of gossip, speculation, and rumours. [...]
Should you go to creative writing school to learn how to write? Digging into Antanas Sileika's study on Who Publishes When, we see the answer isn't clear. A full 51% of writers had no specific training in this area and didn't seem to miss it. Among the 294 comments contained [...]
In 2010 I received an email from Antanas Sileika, a novelist and the director of the Humber School for Writers. Back in 1987, he read a New York Times Book Review essay which stated that the average age of a first-time published writer in the USA was 47. Antanas wanted [...]
