Brockton Writers Series, 10 July 2024, 6:30 pm

Join us on Wednesday, July 10 at the Glad Day Bookshop, 499 Church Street in Toronto: https://brocktonwritersseries.wordpress.com/2024/06/05/wednesday-july-10th-2024-630-p-m/ Or attend virtually on the BWS YouTube channel. Live stream with us at 6:30 pm on July 10 or listen later.

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Canadian Literature 253

Link here to Q & A interview and digital poem version.

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Freedom to Read Week, 2023

PEN Canada celebrates literature, defends freedom of expression and aids writers in peril. Arzu Yildiz—featured writer for FTRW 2023 February 23, 2023 – by PEN Canada Arzu Yildiz—featured writer for Freedom to Read Week 2023 The following extract is from The Street, an unpublished novel by Arzu Yildiz which is currently being translated from the original Turkish by Mary Rykov.  The novel […]

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CanLit Literary Resolutions for 2023

As volunteer mentor with the PEN Canada Writers in Exile program, I resolve to grow the volunteer mentor pool to better support our writers to integrate into the Canadian writing community. https://open-book.ca/News/Canadian-Writers-and-Publishers-Share-Their-Literary-Resolutions-for-2023

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Reflections on Mentoring

Editors Canada published my Editors’ Weekly blog post today. Link to it here: https://blog.editors.ca/?p=9932

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¡Hola desde San Juan, Puerto Rico!

Travel was fraught, but I am so happy to be back in Puerto Rico for my first visit since COVID cancelled me (and all else) in 2020. Tonight I join the weekly poetry salon at The Poet’s Passage, hosted by the wonderful Lady Lee Andrews — my unofficial Puerto Rico book launch.

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23 Nov 2021, Editors Toronto Seminar

For Editors Toronto: “Guidelines for Ethical Editing of Student Texts” Join Editors Toronto on Tuesday, November 23, at 7:00 pm EST via Zoom for “The Purpose and Rationale Behind the ‘Guidelines for Ethical Editing of Student Texts.’” Are you an academic editor or someone who works with student texts? Have you ever had questions about what is […]

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Editors Weekly interview

Ask an Award Winner: An Interview with Mary Rykov September 28, 2021 Filed under: Becky Heaman and tagged with: award profiles, Becky Heaman, editor advice, freelance editing, freelance editors, interview, Mary Rykov The Editors Canada student relations committee recently completed a series of interviews with Editors Canada award winners. Each month, we’ll bring you the highlights of our interviews in the hopes that those featured may inspire […]

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COVID Kitty

MY COVID kitty is a preloved, rehomed four-year-old named Raven, who is as beautiful as she is bossy. Definitely a trickster. Last I checked, the lease is still in my name, but otherwise she rules. *** Being housebound during the first COVID-19 lockdown in Spring 2020 made me realize the mouse infestation in my downtown […]

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Reviewed: some conditions apply

Read Claire Molyneux’s review: The New Zealand Journal of Music Therapy. https://maryrykov.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/NZJMT2020Review_ClaireMolyneux-RykovReview.pdf

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