For a decade, the last weekend in September was reserved on my calendar for the Inscribe Christian Writer's Fellowship's annual Fall...

I am a peacemaker.  I avoid conflict, keep my mouth shut in tense situations, change the topic rather than deal with something that could e...

    Book Review by Bonnie Way One Smooth Stone by Marcia Lee Laycock One Smooth Stone (Castle Quay Books, 2007) is the story o...

   Book Review by Bonnie Way   Heaven's Prey Author: Janet Sketchley Publisher: Choose Now Publishing, 2013 One of the topics...

A soft, irregular clicking sounds fills the den.  A square, white computer screen casts its glow over me.  My eyes dart to the clock displ...

Rebecca Miller's blog post, ' Christian Fiction - For What Purpose? ', expresses dismay that "Christian writers would have ...

In my creative nonfiction class this semester, one of our assignments is to prepare a book proposal.  We are supposed to research and pick...

I've always enjoyed reading historical fiction.  As my mom says, that's the best way to get history—as a story.  I've learned ...

My first published works were personal essays or creative nonfiction, although I didn't know either of those terms at the time.  I si...

I started my blog seven years ago as a way to encourage myself to write.  My blog gave me a place to put my writing and an audience (I hop...

I spent Friday night at a literary soiree at the second annual Write! Vancouver conference . To kick off the soiree, Marc Cote, publisher ...

Writer's conferences and writing courses are both great ways to improve your skills as a writer—if you are able to make it to the venu...

I sat in the middle of the lumpy futon that was my bed, a rough wool blanket drawn up around my shoulders.  It was early in the evening ye...

One of the biggest jobs as a writer is staying on top of trends in the writing and publishing industry.  A writer cannot afford to write s...

Classes started for me last week and I had my first short story due yesterday.  As I sat at my computer trying to work on it, I found myself...

A few weeks ago, I wrote a short story about the weekend I spent in Canberra during my summer in Australia .  It was an interesting weekend ...

In university, I took a biology course to fulfill the science requirements for my Arts degree. It was not a course I looked forward to....

“ Nature is not primarily functional. It is primarily beautiful .”  –John and Stasi Eldredge High on the mountain slopes of the Canadian R...

Recently, I started editing and rewriting the fantasy novel I wrote over a decade ago.  I've talked for years about doing this, but ...

Recently, I started tutoring two boys (grades 6 and 9) in writing.  While both have expressed an interest in creative writing, they are focu...