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Write On!
NORTH SHORE WRITERS’ ASSOCIATION
NEWSLETTER


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Second place winner for poetry in the White Rock Surrey Writers'
Cecilia Lamont Competition 2025




​SEPIA

​I am sepia now,
like an old photograph, cracked and faded,
torn where tomorrow used to be.
Once I was in full colour.
I was bright green in spring,
walking near waterfalls, climbing through woods, writing in cafes and corners.
I was scarlet in summer,
sunning on sand, building beach fires, swimming at midnight in skin and seaweed.
In autumn I was yellow,
strolling through city streets, smiling at strangers, watching the patterns rain makes on ponds and pathways.
In winter I was blue,
sparkling on ice, shining up at stars, warming myself with flames and feelings.
I did not know that all these colours mixed together—green, scarlet, yellow, blue— tangled, twisted, flooding, bleeding, would end with sepia.
The mixing was so slow, so nuanced and deceptive that I did not see it coming.
I disappeared into the background of the world I moved through,
part of the chorus, the props, the scenery.
A secondary player, an extra.
I did not plan for this, this change from here to almost gone.
This fading.
Is there a place for sepia now?
A safe and quiet place where sepia glows and thrives and does not care?
Is there enough colour left, enough light, enough hope, enough time
to make a mark?

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The Ice Road - in Pulp Literature Magazine
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Canadian Cozies

The first in my series of Canadian Cozies is finished! Set in a second-hand store with a rare bookshop above it, The Scales of Anubis is the story of a group of friends and neighbours who come across a mystery hidden in a rare book - a book someone is dying to get their hands on! See The Scales of Anubis page for more information.

The Gods of Thought and Memory and The Scales of Anubis are now available in the collections of all the libraries on Vancouver's North Shore.
​Proud to be in such good company!

2024-25 North Shore Authors Collection

Presented in partnership with the North Vancouver City Library, the North Vancouver District Public Library, and the West Vancouver Memorial Library, this year’s list of local authors is on the books.

The 2024-25 North Shore Authors Collection is now on display and available to be borrowed at the five branches of the North Vancouver City Library, North Vancouver District Public Library and West Vancouver Memorial Library.

Authors selected for the 2024-25 North Shore Authors Collection celebrated its debut at an opening reception at West Vancouver Memorial Library on Nov. 15. Accepted authors must have had their work published either independently or commercially and lived on the North Shore during creation or publication.

Author bios and more information about the collection is available online