Outside the lines
“MacFayden’s paintings are all about gestures, paint texture and explosions of colour. Some have a post-impressionist landscape feel, while others are full-on abstract expressionist in style. She talks about her work ‘going where the colours take (her),’ a sentiment that perfectly describes the freshness of the paintings as well as their boundless and infectious energy.” […]
The Write Stuff
Walking Through Turquoise Laurie MacFayden’s third book of poetry continues to explore the secrets and flirtations mined in her previous titles, White Shirt and Kissing Keeps Us Afloat. The clumsy intricacies of relationships; things you want to shout from rooftops but can’t; that tickle in your gut the first time she calls you honey. MacFayden ponders a one-way […]
2017 Alberta Literary Awards winners
R. Ross Annett Award for Children’s Literature Georgia Graham (Lacombe) – Cub’s Journey Home, Red Deer Press Howard O’Hagan Award for Short Story Laurie MacFayden (Edmonton) – “Haircut,” Alberta Views Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction Gisèle Villeneuve (Calgary) – Rising Abruptly, University of Alberta Press Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction Sydney Sharpe and Don Braid (Calgary) – Notley Nation: […]