Natalie Appleton

Award-winning writer. Author of literary travel #memoir I Have Something to Tell You (as seen in #ModernLove).

[Natalie Appleton @n_appleton]

Bye X!

[Natalie Appleton @n_appleton]

…I sat with that strangeness for a long while.

I am so very thankful for the great care and compassion of the team at Room 🩵

My brother, I love you

#amwriting #cnf #bcwriters #canadianwriters

[Natalie Appleton @n_appleton]

I have been sitting with this beautiful issue of @RoomMagazine for a few days, wondering, how does one share such a story, such news?

I wrote most of ‘our brothers started dying’ on a bright June morning almost exactly a year ago. My brother was still alive…

[Natalie Appleton @n_appleton]

He was mourning the loss of yet another friend…

I wrote in a frenzy, filled with madness, despair and even hope. This is a sliver of the dark ache of that time, less of their beautiful light✨

Just weeks after my own brother’s death, I received the news about this story…

[Room Magazine @RoomMagazine]

Since winter's keeping us indoors, we might as well get cozy at our writing desks 🍵⁠
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Here's a handy list of opportunities, calls for submissions and contests, grants, and more this season!⁠
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https://t.co/nJquoQjaIh

[Natalie Appleton @n_appleton]

Well this is a lovely piece of good news…Thank you @bcwriters for all you to do support #bcwriters!

[BC Federation of Writers @bcwriters]

We are so happy to announce the Long List for the 2023 Literary Contests! Visit https://t.co/8KF0YI7pfw to see the results. Our Short List will be revealed on December 5th. #BCwriters

[Natalie Appleton @n_appleton]

I am so very thankful to @RoomMagazine and judge @tajjaisen 💙

#cnf #amwriting #amgrieving

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[Natalie Appleton @n_appleton]

This is so very bittersweet

#amwriting #amgrieving
#cnf #bcwriters

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[Natalie Appleton @n_appleton]

Thank you to all the wonderful folks who came out to last night’s Valley Voices reading. Such a joy to read with Frances Greenslade. ✨

[Natalie Appleton @n_appleton]

Tonight! Hope you can join us!!
#vernonbc #bcwriters #downtownvernon #beanscene

[Natalie Appleton @n_appleton]

Looking forward to this
reading Wednesday with @franciegreenslade! Hope you can join us!

📖Wednesday Oct 11 at 7 pm
📖 Bean Scene
📖 no tickets needed

Thank you @VernonNews for covering Valley Voices!
#vernonbc #downtownvernon #okanagan #readlocalokanagan #readlocalbc

[Natalie Appleton @n_appleton]

Last June I let myself bleed feelings about my brother and some of his friends. I called the piece I wrote, our brothers started dying. My brother was alive then.

#cnf #bcwriters

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[Natalie Appleton @n_appleton]

The reality of book launch day, even for known writers in the big city. Couldn’t we all fill a collection with funny-sad stories about book-signings and readings and cricket-sounding launch days?
#canlit #canadianwriters #bcwriters

[Marsha Lederman @marshalederman]

I wrote about Indigo, including an extremely embarrassing personal anecdote. https://t.co/2LGPVGAOjF

[Natalie Appleton @n_appleton]

@alixhawley Great piece @alixhawley. Oh, but the budgies! And the summers to come. Glad you are all well.

[Natalie Appleton @n_appleton]

📻 Heard this on the radio today and it made me think of writing/not writing…but I can’t decide which is writing and which is thinking/readying for/stalling writing

#amwriting #amnotwriting #writerslife

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[House of Anansi Press @HouseofAnansi]

THE SUBMISSIONS PORTAL IS OPEN! 🥳🥳🥳

We are open to receive direct submissions from unagented authors twice a year, for a one-month period each, beginning February 1 and August 1.

And it's August 1!!!! 🥳🥳🥳

Learn more here: https://t.co/GaWa5fSIQt

[Natalie Appleton @n_appleton]

“Eleanor Wachtel is one of the very finest interviewers of authors I’ve come across anywhere in the world.”
⁦@marshalederman⁩ was making risotto, I was making bad lasagne, still in disbelief the ⁦@cbcbooks⁩ show was ending https://t.co/luMLPjwTeB

[Natalie Appleton @n_appleton]

Making French toast, yelling at kids to go outside, listening to a familiar voice on Writers and Company— UK writer Sarah Bakewell. Thirteen years after I was a student of hers in London, I used one of Sarah’s writer’s block hacks ‘slips of paper’ this very morning.
@cbcbooks

[Ariel Gordon @JaneDayReader]

So I’m leading a creative writing workshop on Vancouver Island from July 24-28 called “Tree-Talking: Nature Writing and Trees”.