Discipline, or How to Whip That Novel into Shape
As I may have mentioned before, the proposal for my stay at the Historic Joy Kogawa House included—aside from the community interaction and readings—the finishing of the initial draft of a novel that I started in 1993. Of course, the first question that was bound to...
Chris Urquhart presents two writing workshops this spring
Join writer-in-residence Chris Urquhart for one or both writing workshops she will be presenting this spring.
Call for Applications for Residencies in 2020
We are now accepting applications for residencies at Historic Joy Kogawa House, the childhood home of Joy Kogawa. We are looking for writers to live and work at Historic Joy Kogawa House for residencies that take place next year, in 2020. Most residencies run for two...
Views to the Interior
I can’t believe my good fortune to be doing my first residency at the Joy Kogawa House. I will be living not only in Joy Kogawa’s childhood home, which has provided her and countless Canadians with so much inspiration, but I will also be living blocks away from where my mother lived in the late 1930s.