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Mary W. Walters is the award-winning author of 4.5 novels, a collection of short stories, a non-fiction book about grant-writing for academics, and hundreds of essays, articles and blog posts on a host of subjects. She has been executive director of a writers’ organization, awards facilitator at at university, a writing teacher, a freelance writer, editor and grants consultant – and, throughout it all, she has been a fiction writer.

Mary has won a Writers Guild of Alberta award for excellence in writing and been shortlisted for several other writing awards. She has won an Achievement Award from the Province of Alberta, and is listed in Who’s Who in Canada. She lives in Toronto and on the Internet.

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One of the lifeguards at our community centre pool, who I’d estimate to be in his mid-twenties, sometimes joins in with our aquafit class from the pool deck while he’s also watching to make sure we don’t drown. We have often been amused and heartened by his efforts to lift one leg, stand on one foot, and do jumping jacks on dry land along with those of us (mostly elderly folk) who are doing the ex

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Excruciating and powerful. A fictionalization of the true story of a couple in Nazi Germany who wrote postcards denouncing the regime and left them in public places for others to discover for three years before they were finally caught, imprisoned an ...more
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Three life-changing events – a mother's death, a grandchild's birth, and a pandemic – shatter the narrative of the known world into fragments, phrases, words: somehow connected, somehow not. Particles explode across the universe, across time, contine ...more
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“To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

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“It was not Death that stood before me but only Vernon Dickey, my father-in-law.”
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message 4: by Mary W.

13 nov. 2010 17:59

Thanks, Paul.

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message 3: by Paul

13 nov. 2010 17:57

"What am I doing here?" I feel the same, Mary, sometimes. With all I have to do... But it is a neat site for book worms such as myself. And, nice to be friended, as they say, by a fellow book worm.

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message 2: by Mary W.

13 jan. 2009 22:36

What am I doing here? I can't keep up with facebook and twitter (not that I try to "keep up" but do like to check in to those places and sometimes hang out) and I'm buried in freelance work at the moment (not complaining about that, either). Someday I'll get started here. Soon I hope. Thanks for the welcome.

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