Tag Archives: creative writing

Cocaine Plane! Opens Tonight at the Black Box Theatre

One of the most incredible stranger-than-fiction crime dramas ever to unfold on Canadian soil is about to invade Fredericton theatre stages. It’s 1989 in Fredericton, and the sky is full of salsa music and failing engines. A plane carrying millions of dollars of cocaine has crash-landed outside city limits, and powerful members of the Colombian Medellin drug… Continue Reading

Fredericton Writing Workshop

It’s never too late to be what you wanted to be when you grew up. Do you dream of being a writer but don’t know where to start? Do you long for a career where you can skip the morning commute, work the hours you want, or work in your pajamas all day? Maybe you’re… Continue Reading

The Paper Cup Diaries

by Paula Grattan Yesterday, as I sat in the shadows of a grand oak tree, I noticed a crushed paper cup twisting in the wind, partnered with dirt and dust swirling in a mini tornado across the walkway. watched it from afar, wondering where that paper cup had been, whose lips it had touched, whose… Continue Reading

Tea with Mrs. Park

by Rhonda Herrington Bulmer We had been visiting there for a couple of hours, Mom, my sister, my brother and I. Mom had brought us next door to chat with Mrs. Park. I stared out her picture window in the front room and saw that it was sunny and warm and there wasn’t much wind—an… Continue Reading

Countdown to Culture Days: Biff Mitchell’s Scary Night Time Horror Writing Workshop in Fredericton

On Saturday, September 29, 2012 from 8:30 until 10pm join Biff Mitchell in Fredericton for a Scary Night Time Horror Writing Workshop in celebration of Culture Days. A spine-chilling adventure into the art of writing scary stories that make your readers afraid to look under the bed, participants will look at how to build suspense, make… Continue Reading

Building Stronger Communities Together

Great-West Life and London Life recently contributed $25,000 to the Frye Festival in Moncton, NB. Through their national corporate citizenship program, the companies have contributed a total of $125,000 over the past five years as sponsors of the Frye Festival’s annual Great-West Life and London Life Writing Contest for high school students and the Frye… Continue Reading