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  • Breathing the Page

    Reading the Act of Writing

    by Betsy Warland ...
    A written work is more than just letters on a page — it is a complex web of relationships. Some, like the relationship between words and phrases, or story and plot, are obvious. Others, such as the way writers interact with their physical tools, or how storytellers convey meaning to an audience, are less apparent. But to write well, one must recognize, understand, and be guided by all of these ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD

  • Oscar of Between

    A Memoir of Identity and Ideas

    by Betsy Warland ...
    In 2007, at the age of sixty, Betsy Warland finds herself single and without a sense of family. On an impulse, she decides to travel to London to celebrate her birthday, where she experiences an odd compulsion to see an exhibit on the invention of military camouflage. Within the first five minutes of her visit, her lifelong feeling of being aberrant reveals its source: she had never learned the ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD

  • Bloodroot

    Tracing the Untelling of Motherloss

    by Betsy Warland ...
    In Bloodroot, Betsy Warland traces how a mother and daughter's shared gender can shape the very anatomy of narrative itself. In her mother’s final year, Warland quietly discovered how to disentangle a crucial, concealed story that had rendered their relationship disconnected and fraught. Warland weaves a common ground that moves beyond duty and despair, providing both questions and guideposts for ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Lost Lagoon/lost in thought

    by Betsy Warland ...
    In trademark lyric prose, accompanied by the images depicting the sights and sounds of nature, Warland’s roving observations in and around Vancouver’s Lost Lagoon offer insights into nature, narratives, and the urban environment. After moving to Vancouver’s West End in 2014, The Human is drawn to a small body of water called Lost Lagoon in Stanley Park. Daytime visits, with a surprising array of ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD

  • Off the Map

    Vancouver Writers With Lived Experience of Mental Health Issues

    Edited by Betsy Warland, Seema Shah, Kate Bird ...
    Off the Map, an anthology of writing by Vancouver writers with lived experience of mental health issues, aims to bring diverse and distinctive voices to the literary landscape. In works of creative nonfiction, fiction, and poetry, you'll discover writing on a wide range of subjects. These narratives showcase unique storytelling styles and forms, offer fresh and fascinating perspectives, and are ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • emerge 20

    The Writer's Studio Anthology

    by Betsy Warland, Dora Larson, Frederic Sahyouni, eve nixen, Judy Dercksen, Stephanie Peters, Rebecca Chan, Višnja Milidragović, Christina Kruger-Woodrow, Sandra Sugimoto, Katie Lewis, Kim Spencer, Justyna Krol, Emma Brady, Maryanna Gabriel, Calvin McShane, Anne Rosenberg, Ankush Chopra, Jess Wesley, Libby McKeever, Clare McNamee-Annett, Tim J. O’Connor, Daniel Ortiz Rubio, Léa Taranto, Robert Weber, Anna Lee-Popham, Brandon Houston, Pinki Li, F. J. Erica Yang, Amrit Kaur Sanghera, Marco Melfi, Michael Edwards, Tharuna Abbu, Shenul Dhalla, Uttara Krishnadas, Magnus Lu, Hugh Griffith, William W. Campbell, Lori Greenfield, Emily Chan, Christine Pilgrim, Kate Covello, Erin Pettit, Elizabeth Page, Sofia Pezentte, Stephanie Charette, Danica Longair, Alana Cheyne, Ela Przybyło, Kuldeep Singh ...
    Series Book 20 - emerge
    This special 20th anniversary anthology invites you to journey outside yourself: float in a capsized rowboat, downward-dog through a yoga studio adapting to covid-19, reflect on the legacy of residential schools, find purpose on the Camino de Santiago, and make peace with your raccoon neighbours. These are stories of ego, loss, birth, renewal—the salient issues of our time.In emerge 20, stories in ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Bloodroot

    Tracing the Untelling of Motherloss

    by Betsy Warland ...
    Narrated by Lauren Piech ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 54 min

    It is rare for an author to re-enter one of her books published twenty years ago. In the first edition of Bloodroot, Warland traced how a mother’s shared gender with her daughter can shape the very anatomy of narrative itself. In her mother’s final year, Warland quietly discovered how to disentangle a crucial, concealed story that had rendered their relationship disconnected and fraught. The 2000 ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • Recollections of My Nonexistence

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