I've been seeing/reading this fun thingy called a Blog Tour, whereby various bloggers answer all the same questions and link to each other's blogs to help promote each other, and our writing processes. I was super excited to be invited to participate by the lovely and talented, and freshly published, poet Debbie Okun Hill! My… Continue reading BLOG TOUR! My Writing Process
Author: Vanessa Shields
Writer. Mother. Lover.
New Office. New Hair. New Energy.
I write this post while sitting in my fancy-shmancy new office located on the *main* floor of our humble abode - and get this - it has a door! Feast your eyes on this: Oooooo baby. Clean desktop. Pooling-light lamp. A chair that forces me to sit up straight and stay focused. I need change these… Continue reading New Office. New Hair. New Energy.
My First Official Poetry Award! Judge’s Choice The Arborealis Prize for Poetry
I've won my first poetry award!! I submitted a poem to The Ontario Poetry Society's 'Arborealis Prize for Poetry' and I have been awarded: JUDGE'S CHOICE! A certificate and cash!! For my poem entitled: A Mother Eats Alone in her Car (Again) I'm thrilled and honoured! Thank you TOPS and the judges! Yay!!!!
VANESSA SHIELDS 