What a delightful gift! Nimbus Publishing just released more illustrations in-progress (yay for the amazing Josée Bisaillon!) for my next children’s picture book, A GREAT BIG NIGHT coming this fall. Here’s to joy, music, and blueberry salad.
Read MoreIn September 2020 A GREAT BIG NIGHT arrives, a tale about the value of tomfoolery and music. As award-winning illustrator Josée Bisaillon does her magic, I’m listening to its inspiration: Bach Meets Cape Breton by Puirt A Baroque.
Read More“Randomness is not the domain of pessimists. It’s empty soil, a blank slate. The profound rarity that you ever came to be at all! That you are you as opposed to any other billion permutations of this microscopic lottery, that I am me. Despite it all, here you are, as you are.”
Read MoreThis was such a great podcast with firefighter Nick Holderbaum about 'muscle-building' for grace through chaos, and how all the inner fires that generate heat for us in tough times — whether creative or physical — can get us back to health again.
Read MoreI’m at the ever-excellent Modern Loss community with my why-and-how of Animal Husbandry for Dragons: How will I stop either spitting or swallowing fire every time someone asks how I’m doing? Heat, loves. Heat is where fortitude grows.
Read MoreJonathan Field’s The Good Life Project Podcast is a stunning array of fascinating people in conversation. Please listen, and share! This one’s a big hit for the book, and Jonathan’s voice and thoughtfulness and spark are such a delight.
Read MoreWith thanks to the Atlantic Book Awards and the Writers Federation of Nova Scotia, and cheers to all the nominees and winners! Our region overflows with talent, and I was thrilled to walk in the fog with some of the people I admire so much.
Read MoreI’m thrilled to go to St. John’s, Newfoundland and spend time with an incredible posse of writers and poets from my Atlantic region, many of whom are long-standing friends and mentors. Thanks, Atlantic Book Awards! I’m chuffed.
Read MoreIn episode ten, Tim and Tuesday of FIND THE OUTSIDE: THE PODCAST talk to author and collaborator Kate Inglis on the parallels of how we can be light-keepers despite impossible loss as human beings, and impossible odds as change leaders.
Read MoreThe second clip from Penguin Random House Audio is live! “Having given anger a voice, you’ll grow a deeper appreciation and sensitivity to things suddenly feeling peaceful. You’ll get there faster, and laugh louder when you do. Ask any punk.”
Read MoreI’m over at Modern Loss with a fresh take on resolutions: “Bracing yourself for a new year without someone important? Kate Inglis offers four ways to grieve differently in 2019 (hint: before it ebbs, it has to rage). This is one to share the hell out of...”
Read MoreI had such a great conversation with Kristen Chase of Cool Mom Picks—I love how she turned our time together into an audio guidebook for all griefs, from all angles, in all circles. What to do no matter where you stand in relation to loss, Medusa or not.
Read MoreThe wonderful PRH Audio is releasing excerpts of the audiobook, as read by me in a three-day marathon inside a little black cave-room in Nova Scotia. Reading aloud, re-living, time-travelling. And feeling very much with you, with us.
Read MoreSuch happy news: a new picture book for Fall 2020! “…A rhythmic, playful story about three frogs who ride bicycles through the woods, singing and playing instruments for the other animals until a huge storm wins them an unexpected fan…”
Read MoreHey! I’m on CTV Morning Live Atlantic talking about how to navigate grief with an open heart. It’s the day before my first life-after-death salon, tomorrow night in Halifax—a spirited evening I hope will happen more than once.
Read MoreViewPoint Gallery and Bookmark II present an intimate salon with NOTES FOR THE EVERLOST author Kate Inglis—with stimulating conversation and shared creative work to explore the riddle and illumination of living healthfully with loss.
Read MoreThe Coast covered the run-up to my salon in Halifax this Monday night, and it’s wonderful. Steph knows grief, and as a fellow novelist, she asked: is it taxing to retread raw ground when I talk about the book? Yes. But everyone else has some, too.
Read MoreNOTES FOR THE EVERLOST is in the world and I am on the moon. Kind of stunned, if I’m being honest, that eleven years of pain and growth and love and blood and sweat have culminated in something you can hold in your hands.
Read MoreThe third video reading—direct to you from the closet!—is on the silver lining of a heart full of holes. All the things that work exactly as they’re supposed to thanks to their holes: sponges, souffles, the foam inside lifejackets. And me, and you.
Read MoreThe second video reading from the book—on strength—is all about fluidity over bruce force, with public domain treasures that fit the words. Not muscle, but flow. That’s the way to life again, and I like thinking about that. I hope you do, too.
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