PinnedAnnabel TownsendA Cat’s Eye View of Publishing / CALL FOR SUBMISSIONSYet another new venture has occurred, and to date, this may be my most peculiar one yet.Apr 132Apr 132
PinnedAnnabel TownsendEnd Pages.Or, what I learned from visiting 25 Torontonian bookstores, and why I had to close mine.Sep 132Sep 132
Annabel TownsendScraps(very random piece that’s probably best as spoken word — from a prompt given at a recent Writers’ Collective of Canada workshop)Oct 8Oct 8
Annabel TownsendThe Brick and the Thing with Feathers.If hope is the thing with feathers, then grief is the thing that hangs in the air in the exact way that bricks don’t.Aug 12Aug 12
Annabel TownsendMessed Up and Obvious in the Big CityI have escaped! At the last minute before my family and I flew to the UK to see my parents, I changed my flight. I engineered two days solo…Jul 15Jul 15
Annabel TownsendThe Shelf Life of OptimismLike most people I am a pessimist by experience but an optimist by nature. I shall go on being true to my nature. It is often a mistake to…Jul 6Jul 6
Annabel TownsendExploring for IntrovertsHandwritten cue cards litter the floor, dropped and scattered in a fit of frustration. “It’s all crap! I hate this!” he complains. “I’ve…Mar 24Mar 24
Annabel TownsendA Liveable City (beneath the snow)“We don’t quite have a liveable city right now.” Mayor Sandra Masters admitted, in the midst of yet another Saskatchewan snow dump.Mar 21Mar 21
Annabel Townsend‘Start Here’: Warehouse woes and urban decayDirectly north of Regina’s downtown core is the Warehouse District, an old neighbourhood full of — you guessed it — old warehouses. The…Feb 25Feb 25