Sheila martindale biography

  • Sheila Martindale joined the Friends of The Malahat at the group's inception in January, 2010.
  • Sheila Martindale was born and educated in England and came to Canada in 1966.
  • She was born and educated in England, moving to Montreal in 1966, where she lived through the October Crisis of 1970, and then relocated to Ontario.

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    Voices of the Rapids

    June 22, 2009
    This collection of short stories was founded on the motivating principle of regionalism--something with which inom don't agree. "The six writers in this collection are all women and all from Lambton County," as Martindale notes in the foreword, but "any other similarities are purely co-incidental." Who knew that Sarnia would be such a literary hotbed?

    The cover to this book is medically proven to induce sleep in laboratory subjects, and the pseudo-title "Voices of the Rapids" made me think it was a N'Amerind fiction anthology. The pictures of each author are of these smiling, good-natured, motherly women, which makes one think of the "Sarnia Presbyterian Writers' Guild and Sewing Circle" or some such thing. Everything about the packaging of this book says snooze.

    So imagine my surprise when story after story was professionally written, engaging, and even funny. Without exception, these six women have all enjoyed prosperous careers in writing, have m
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    Closing the Gaps. First Edition.

    By: MARTINDALE, Sheila

    Price: $15.00

    Publisher: South Western Ontario Poetry, London, ON, 1983, ISBN:0919139140

    Seller ID: 56676

    MARTINDALE, Sheila. Closing the Gaps. (London, ON): South Western Ontario Poetry, 1983. First Edition. Pp. 28. 8vo, stapled beige illustrated card covers, black lettering to front. Sheila Martindale was born and educated in England, and immigrated to Canada in 1966. She lived in and around Montreal until 1977, and is now in British Columbia. A collection of poems, including "First Thaw", "Forty Love", "In This Silence", "Splintering", "ExperienceAt The Science Centre", "Apple Head Doll", "Boundaries", "Joliette Revisit ed", "D...
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    A Conversation With a Friend:
    Sheila Martindale

    Sheila Martindale joined the Friends of The Malahatat the group's inception in January, 2010. Malahat Circulation and Marketing manager, Susan Sanford Blades asked her a few questions about her literary Victoria.

    In December, we entered all Friends of The Malahat into a draw for two free tickets to the Galiano Literary Festival this February, and your name was drawn! Congratulations! What have you signed up for at the festival? What are you most excited to do there?

    I have signed up for the keynote presentation by Kevin Chong (followed by a panel discussion); readings by Pauline Holdstock, Michele Levy, Bill Gaston, Billie Livingston, Frances Greenslade, and Mark Leiren-Young; a workshop by poet Kim Goldberg titled "Kung Fu for Writers"; and a presentation on translation by Robert Bringhurst. Plus I will be at the Opening Reception and the Authors' Dinner, with bells on! It will be a pretty packed few days. It