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“The Marzipan Fruit Basket”, your debut collection, includes 24 stories.  How did you go about building this collection? What was your process in deciding what stories belonged to the collection [...]

Stella’s Carpet by Lucy E.M. Black is an exquisite portrait of a family struggling to come to terms with intergenerational trauma caused by war: specifically WWII and the Iranian Revolution. Set [...]

It was my pleasure to join the Scugog Arts Art Waves podcast to discuss writing, my journey to getting published, and my three books Eleanor Courtown, Stella’s Carpet, and The Marzipan Fruit Basket.

A short way into Stella’s Carpet, a heartfelt and lovely novel by the Canadian writer (and Silver Sage contributor) Lucy E.M. Black, a primary character who has become fairly obsessed with the [...]

If you do not have an appreciation for Persian carpets you will by the time you finish Lucy EM Black’s novel Stella’s Carpet. After reading Black’s vibrant descriptions of their artistry and rich [...]

Most of us want to know that we matter and that our lives matter. Leaving a written memoir is a legacy of sorts, a way of documenting what small impact we hope we have had in the lives of [...]

This is by no means an exhaustive list, but I wanted to share some of the writing resources that I have found helpful.

Everyone has a story to tell. Not every story needs to be published. But some do. Oftentimes people want to record family stories and memoir pieces for their families. They may not [...]

There are many paths to publication and everyone has their own unique story about how they got there. This is a simple sharing of my own experiences in case it is helpful to others. First [...]

Persian carpets are rich in many ways: their history, their materials, their colours, their designs, their complexity—and, as it happens, their symbolism. The Stella of the title is introduced to [...]