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These are ramblings, repeated wisdom and everything else. Possibly a blog.

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Things I want to know about you: Photographs

The publishing contract says I need 12 photographs. 12 photographs. It doesn’t seem like a lot. My agent says Do you have any photos from the commune? No? What about…

By SonjaJanuary 19, 2015July 14, 2016
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Blue (pill) Christmas

That year my room-mate Francois was a med school drop out who was studying pharmacology, both academically and personally. He had drugs for waking up, falling asleep, calming down and…

By SonjaDecember 15, 2014July 14, 2016
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By SonjaNovember 3, 2014
Non-fiction, Notes

Before the Revolution

My memoir “Before the Revolution” will be published by Knopf Random House Canada in spring 2016. I am represented by Trena White, associate agent with the Transatlantic Agency and principal…

By SonjaOctober 9, 2014June 29, 2016
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2013 in review

I said when I started writing my memoir about my radical childhood that I would decide at the end of it if I wanted to be a writer or not.…

By SonjaDecember 18, 2013
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By SonjaNovember 26, 2013

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Winner of the 2017 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction

Shortlisted for the 2016 Hilary Weston Writer's Trust Prize for Non-Fiction

Selected one of National Post 2016 Books of the Year

Selected one of NOW Magazine's 2016 Books of the Year

Selected one of CBC's 2016 Books of the Year

Latest Posts

Red Star Tattoo wins 2017 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction

October 11, 2017

Press & Reviews for Red Star Tattoo

October 4, 2017

Red Star Tattoo nominated for 2017 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Ficton

September 25, 2017

#lifebeforetheinternet

August 4, 2017

Birdwatching with the dead – A father’s day instagram post

June 21, 2017

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