News: Two ways to welcome and support new dA members. #SolutionsSanctuary is holding a contest involving writing a tutorial to help new members navigate dA [link] and #TheControversy is holding a Welcome challenge and will feature new tutorials, as well as work by noobies in our 'Featured' gallery. For more details see this blog [link]

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Cedar Ridge students: Your opinion please. This is just an idea I'm considering putting before management at the centre. So, in other words, it may never happen. But just in case, I'd like to know what you think of the idea of me teaching a digital art course for young adults. If this were possible, what would you want to learn in such a course?

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I have a new Facebook Page Margaret Chown Drop by for a virtual cup of tea.

UPDATE: The Big Art Book is LAUNCHED! The jury/ judging process is COMPLETE. WINNERS WERE ANNOUNCED ON MARCH 1ST AT THE DORIS MCCARTHY GALLERY AT U OF T SCARBOROUGH. Check out the winners and flip through the virtual pages of The Big Art Book here: [link]

I'll feature the dA artists and writers among the top 10 in this journal shortly.

Oh, and my poem 'You and I' was published in Source and Symbol, which is Scarborough Arts quarterly news publication.

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Members, I notice there are a lot of views on the group's latest blog regarding ch-ch-ch-changes to our Ideological and Stamps galleries. I've not only decided to keep the Ideological gallery, but I'm going to split if off to create a new gallery for "Ideological Lit". However, all new submissions to The Controversy will have to meet the group's standards for artistic merit. Also tremendously exciting -- awesome contributors *Marthfador and ~Odeena will be moderating Controversial blogs and the Ideological galleries respectively.

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I HAS KITTEN!!!

I have three cats, actually. The youngest is pictured below. All were rescued in one way or another. They keep my feet warm in winter and keep the mice (and other rodents) away from my home. There's a dead something (rat? shrew? I'm afraid to look) frozen to my patio, no doubt a gift from one of my cats. I'm so squeamish, I have to pay my kids a loonie to bag the rodent corpses and put them in the compost.:/


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My lovely and talented daughter, Adele (she was 12 at the time), on YouTube:
[link]

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Below is a gift for moi from the lovely and talented She has progressed as an artist at breakneck speed. I knew she had it in her! She should be very proud of herself.



Thank you svetlana! I love it!
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PROMOTIONAL STUFF!

`fllnthblnk is editor-in-chief of this elegant non-profit arts zine. [link] See submission guidelines.

~Vindicta38 has published a book of poetry via Lulu. Grace, Grime, Life and Death may be found here: [link]

Canadians! You can find Counting Clouds: A Collection of Poetry, by Joseph L.M. Sturm, a.k.a =Mattiello, at Indigo Chapters online:
[link]
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WRITERS' GUIDES & RESOURCES

*Visit !bekkia's Writing Guide Folder: [link]
*For SF Writers, the Turkey City Lexicon is a must read: [link]
*My fave manuscript format guide: [link]
*SF writers check out Robert J. Sawyer's "On Writing" columnns: [link]
*My guides and tutorials are here: [link]
*My fav'd writing guides and tutortials folder: [link]
*!lovetodeviate's Writing Resources news item:
[link]
*Visit :devthephotographicpoet:'s forum for lit contests and news you may wish to have announced: [link]
*For Lit News of all sorts go to `ATrue's [link] for the most recent issue of Lit News and see *Lit-Twitter for the latest tweets.

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FEATURED JOURNAL: Meet She has the most readable, heart-warming journals I've ever read. Her stories of farm life will keep you coming back for more.

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GROUPS & CLUBS:
I'm co-founder of

I'm a contributor at

I'm a member of
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Other Writing clubs and groups that I watch or belong to are I am Canadian, eh? Check out the art and lit of the Great White North at and and .