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Ripening: A Canadian Girl Grows Up

Ripening: A Canadian Girl Grows Up

Tillie’s grit and ability to face life’s challenges are inspiring, seeds for later discovering her artist self. Tillie takes readers on a wild ride.

2021

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Giving Birth to Fictional Characters

My novel Curva Peligrosa opens with a tornado that sweeps through the fictional town of Weed, Alberta, and drops a purple outhouse into its…

4 min readJul 26, 2021

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Giving Birth to Fictional Characters

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Thanks for taking the time out of your busy life to interview me, Rika!

1 min readJun 3, 2021

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What’s the future of auto-fiction?

Recently, my reading group selected Rachel Cusk’s novel Transit as our next book, and I recalled reading a review by Elaine Blair of Cusk’s…

2 min readMay 3, 2021

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What’s the future of auto-fiction?

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The Magic & Mystery in Magical Realism

So much has been said about magic realism that it’s difficult to add anything new to the conversation. However, I wondered if putting on…

9 min readMar 12, 2021

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The Magic & Mystery in Magical Realism

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Am I Creating Another Self When I Write Memoir?

I opened the I Ching at random this morning and came up with #38, K’uei / Opposition. The commentary says it is common for two opposites…

3 min readMar 9, 2021

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Am I Creating Another Self When I Write Memoir?

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The Sexism I Faced As SF’s First Female Longshoreman

Silicon Valley isn’t the only boys’ club in the Bay Area

7 min readJan 26, 2021

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The Sexism I Faced As SF’s First Female Longshoreman

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Novelist Lisa Brunette gives fun facts about her writing world in the following interview

Meet Lisa Brunette, a novelist, game writer, and journalist. Her non-fiction has appeared in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Seattle Woman…

5 min readJan 16, 2017

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Novelist Lisa Brunette gives fun facts about her writing world in the following interview

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FREEDOM!

I’ve realized that it isn’t just writers who are tempted to turn themselves into fodder for the Internet. Non-writers also are tempted to…

2 min readApr 18, 2016

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FREEDOM!

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Lily Iona MacKenzie

Lily Iona MacKenzie

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I’ve published pieces in over 165 venues. Also, three of my novels have been released. Learn more about me and my work at http://lilyionamackenzie.com.

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