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I’m very excited about this forthcoming title, In the Flesh: Twenty Writers Explore the Body.  The idea for a book of writing about the body first came to me over ten years ago, and I worked for a while on it with my friend Sue Thomas. It went through various metamorphoses, lay dormant for a while and then, in collaboration with another friend, Lynne Van Luven, it was distilled into its current form and taken up by Brindle & Glass.

Each writer was invited to choose (or, in some cases, gently steered towards!)  a particular body part and asked to write a candid personal essay exploring that part and their relationship with it. The assumption was that writers  had to possess (or have possessed) a particular part in order to write about it. However, we abandoned this rule in the case of two very significant parts, as you will see below.

The twenty essays that resulted from our rather odd invitations are fascinating and utterly distinctive in content and tone.  Witty, sad, quirky, passionate: each one reads beautifully alone; put together, they create a fascinating, multi-dimensional portrait of the human body and our experience of living within it.

Here, to whet your appetite, is the contents page: [click to continue…]

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The Perfect Day (memoir)

This new piece, published in Carte Blanche,  centres on a day out with two nonagenarians: one of the last excursions my parents and I took together.  http://carte-blanche.org/the-perfect-day/    

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How it Grows (memoir)

This article about emigration, gardening and family, was first published in Aqua Magazine, p28 on.   Click to  read it in the turning pages magazine format  with original illustrations. The text is below. What I am planting, how it grows In one of those windy, sunny days when  the light and sound levels are in constant [...]

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The Find Shortlisted for a ReLit Award

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“Canada’s ReLit Award–founded to acknowledge the best new work released by independent publishers–may not come with a purse, but it brings a welcome, back-to-the-books focus to the craft.”  Amazon.com The Find is one of ten titles short-listed for the 2011 Relit Award (Novel): http://therelitawards.blogspot.com/  

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Writing Workshop with Kathy Page on Salt Spring Island, 8th & 9th October 2011

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Storylines: a Workshop with Kathy Page How does an idea become a fully-fledged short story, novel or non-fiction narrative? We’ll experiment with new ways to find and develop story ideas, and then begin to create the story itself. This workshop is an opportunity to start fresh work,  to develop something you have had in mind [...]

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The Find

Book jacket of The Find, novel by Kathy Page

A  day’s prospecting leads paleontologist Anna Silowski to make an extraordinary discovery in a remote part of British Columbia,  but at the same time, the tensions below the surface of her successful career are exposed. Pushed towards breakdown, she finds herself unexpectedly dependent on high-school drop out Scott Macleod, and recruits him to help on [...]

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The Find is a Green Book

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Today 200 bloggers take a stand to support books printed in an eco-friendly manner by simultaneously publishing reviews of 200 books printed on recycled or FSC-certified paper. By turning a spotlight on books printed using eco- friendly paper, we hope to raise the awareness of book buyers and encourage everyone to take the environment into [...]

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Vancouver and Whistler Festivals 2010

book jacket of The FIND, a novel by Kathy Page

Kathy Page will read at the Vancouver International Writers Festival 2010, Saturday October 23rd, 2010. http://www.writersfest.bc.ca/ She is also appearing at the Whistler Readers and Writers Festival, Saturday October 16th. http://www.theviciouscircle.ca/retreat/

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Salt Spring Island Launch of The Find

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The Find, May 10 2010,  at ArtSpring Theatre, Salt Spring Island, BC,  7:30 pm. Kathy Page introduces her latest novel. Refreshments, all welcome, free. Hosted by Salt Spring Books – signed copies available.

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