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Marjorie Simmins

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426:. The book includes essays, many published previously in Canadian magazines and newspapers, and brief stories about personal friendships and family relationships. The book's title refers to writers living on opposite Canadian coasts who meet, fall in love and marry: Simmins herself, who vows never to leave her beloved Pacific coast, and Silver Donald Cameron, "a cussedly stubborn man," whose heart belongs to Cape Breton Island on the stormy North Atlantic. 31: 276:, Simmins said writing came naturally for her. She wrote letters, mainly to family members, from the age of six or seven and started writing journals when she was 12, so it was "a natural transition from letter and journal writing, to personal essays. It took no time at all to understand that the pronoun 'I' had greatest interest and biggest heart if connected to 'we' or the universal experience." 596:, a form that "covers a whole life." Simmins writes that successful memoirs are entertaining, truthful and detailed as they explore universal themes using humour, dialogue and a narrative arc --- a beginning, middle and end that move through stages of increasing tension to "a satisfying resolution." She writes that memoir writers need a "climax (or epiphany) near the end of the story." 631:
and muted interest in posterity. People either burn with story, their fingertips tingling with words to get down on paper – and often, a central one, such as the death of a child, a wartime or countryside childhood – or they do not. Now, more than ever, the world of memoir belongs to anyone, of any age, who for any reason, needs to record details of their life."
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praises the deftness of her touch in recounting the love affair at the heart of her story without being defensive about her 22-year age difference with Cameron and avoiding mawkishness, petty resentment and self-effacement in conveying the "looming presence" of his late wife Lulu and Cameron's intense grief at her untimely death.
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this book describes best is that love is complicated, and for most of us, happily, we have no choice but to stay engaged, wistful or enraged, fearful or unwilling, until we get it --- the fleeting, hard-won sensation of being in sync with the edges of the unknown, beautiful in motion, constantly in change."
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Simmins told an interviewer in 2021 that the six owners were regular people pursuing a hobby. "After the briefest time, they realized they had a genius horse," she added. "Brent McGrath actually quit work and became the full-time trainer during the horse's second year of racing. It was just one bit
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saw the book as a story of love and discovery as Simmins moves from youthful, horse-riding exuberance to her sudden realization in mid-life that she can form a partnership with a horse by "listening" to its needs as one listens to a human partner to find the basis for loyalty, trust and love. "What
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Simmins's book serves as a supplement to the workshops on memoir writing that she teaches across Canada and online. It also enlarges on her master's thesis in which she wrote: "In my teaching of memoir, to seniors and people of all ages, I have seen a uniform intensity of desire to begin writing –
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The book delves into the history and lore of harness racing and includes interviews with a wide range of professionals, but Simmins says she tried to write for both harness-racing aficionados and those with little knowledge of the sport. "It's a real writerly challenge to get that right tone where
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One reviewer wrote of the book: "Simmins's intense culture shock in hurling herself from the life of a single urban Vancouver writer into a rural Cape Breton 'kitchen racket' culture demonstrates the plurality of Canadian solitudes. 'Learning a first language for the second time is even stranger,'
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As her recovery and training continue, Simmins recalls vivid memories, telling stories about the many horses she has known as well as the people who have touched her deeply. One reviewer compared her book to a "slow-burning candle" and added that, "the warmth of Simmins's stories carry us through
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Nova Scotia writer, Harry Thurston found that Simmins's essays explore "a wide emotional territory" and that the book "is an inward journey into the depths and shallows of love and loss, an emotional landscape as complex and winding as the two coastlines where the drama of her personal life plays
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felt that the contrasts Simmins draws between Cape Breton and B.C. were not persuasive. "The sense of wonder she expresses at the differences seems wide-eyed and oddly parochial; a skillful and experienced journalist, as she was, should surely have been more worldly than that." Overall though, he
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where she intended to study memoir and use her thesis as the basis for a published book. Memoir made sense, she writes, because of all the letters, journals and essays she had published over the years, all using variations of "my direct-to-the reader voice -- which enabled me to be candid and
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Somewheresomebeach was almost undefeated, winning 20 of 21 races, earning more than $ 3.2 million and setting four world records. At the time of his death from cancer in January 2018, the world-champion Hall of Famer had sired Standardbreds who won more than $ 84.6 million in prizes.
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to explore themes of love and loss, the lure of the sea and her lifelong passion for horses. A fourth book on memoir writing includes interviews with prominent authors who practise the craft and is intended to serve as a guide for those who wish to tell their own stories.
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In 2016, Simmins told an interviewer that the book is not just for people who ride horses. "Whether you ride horses or not...this book is intended to give you the best seat in the house, atop one of the world's most elegant and swift creatures."
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before her parents divorced. Barbara Simmins began working as a night-time taxi driver to sustain the household and look after their four children before earning an education degree and becoming a high school teacher.
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covering commercial and sports fishing on Canada's Pacific coast for six years. She also wrote personal essays such as "Trips From There to Here" about her troubled sister Karin. That essay was published by
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Memoir is a renegade genre. If memoir were a fish, it would dart past your hand when you reached out to touch it. It's not meant to be caught, only to swim against currents of accepted form.
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I believe that our times in history, anyone's time in history, is only as special as the people who come and go in it, and the places you are able to call home.
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Marjorie Simmins was born in Ottawa, the youngest of four children of Barbara Simmins (nÊe Atkinson) and Richard Beaufort Simmins. The family moved to
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and his wife, Babs, won a Gold medal at the 2020 Atlantic Journalism Awards (AJAs) for arts and entertainment reporting. Her 2011 piece for
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worsened, she became increasingly violent, and in 1974, she died of a drug overdose at age 20. A grief-stricken Simmins sold the horse.
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Thurston, Harry (April 12, 2014). "Travel to lands of the heart; Simmins's Coastal Lives offers personal insights along two coasts".
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Gallant, Ryan (January 2, 2017). "Injury, recovery, rejuvenation: Simmins taps into sensitive subjects, takes reader for a ride".
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personal as though talking to a good friend, and yet, conversely, somehow gave me enough artistic distance to craft a story."
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and the Atlantic Journalism Awards and in 2020, she won the Established Artist Recognition Award from Arts Nova Scotia.
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Quednau, Marion (Summer 2017). "Year of the Horse: A journal of healing and adventure by Marjorie Simmins".
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you're not going to bore the harness racing person and you're not going to lose the person who plays golf."
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MacKenzie, Richard (January 28, 2021). "New book on Somebeachsomewhere captures the 'heart' of the story".
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for 22 years until his death in 2020. He is a vivid presence in her memoir writing and many of her essays.
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Hersey, Linda (September 30, 2016). "Year of the Horse is a compelling new read from Marjorie Simmins".
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Simmins, Majorie (December 2011). "Memoir: An Examination of a Renegade Genre from the Inside Out".
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writer, journalist and teacher. She is the author of three books of non-fiction that blend personal
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Benjamin, Chris (February 7, 2015). "A coast-to-coast love affair that's as big as the country".
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writer and reporter publishing her work in Canadian newspapers with regular work for the
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The book begins by distinguishing between memoir, "a chapter in a person's life" and
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Boudrot, Jake (June 16, 2021). "New book from Marjorie Simmins named bestseller".
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de Villiers, Marq (Autumn 2015). "Coastal Lives: a memoir by Marjorie Simmins".
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Lawlor, Allison (April 6, 2020). "Now is the perfect time to write a memoir".
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plan to build a eco-hotel with a five-star restaurant in his tiny hometown of
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Simmins's writing has appeared in many newspapers and magazines including the
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In 2014, three years after completing her master's thesis, Simmins published
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Somebeachsomewhere: The Harness Racing Legend from a One-Horse Stable (2021)
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of magic after another. He broke records every time he went on the track."
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Simmins has taught memoir-writing in workshops across Canada and online.
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Somebeachsomewhere: The Harness Racing Legend from a One-Horse Stable
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Somebeachsomewhere: A Harness Racing Legend from a One-Horse Stable
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those dark desolate times when optimism and hope seem so faint."
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where Simmins was raised. Her father served as Director of the
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In 1972, when Simmins was 12, her mother bought a registered
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Her work has won several awards including gold medals at the
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after submitting a thesis on memoir writing as a renegade
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she writes of coming to terms with Cape Breton idioms."
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Year of the Horse: A Journey of Healing and Adventure
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The writers whose interviews appear in the book are:
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Year of the Horse: A Journey of Healing and Adventure
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Year of the Horse: A Journey of Healing and Adventure
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Saltwire - Amherst/Cumberland County (NS) (web site)
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that Brent MacGrath, a car salesman from small town
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Simmins's 2021 book tells the improbable story of a
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United States Harness Racing Hall of Fame inductees
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Canadian writer, journalist and teacher (born 1959)
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In 2011, she completed a Research 984:Boudrot, Jake (November 26, 2020). 274:Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia 14: 1446:21st-century Canadian journalists 1441:20th-century Canadian journalists 1282:Briggs, Dave (January 15, 2018). 934:Trek: A Publication Of alumni UBC 359:to join her husband, the writer, 1401:21st-century Canadian memoirists 29: 1044:Memoir: Conversations and Craft 584:Memoir: Conversations and Craft 564:Memoir: Conversations and Craft 323:as well as magazines including 283:in English Literature from the 1391:Canadian newspaper journalists 293:Mount Saint Vincent University 285:University of British Columbia 149:(born February 17, 1959) is a 84:Mount Saint Vincent University 80:University of British Columbia 1: 1411:Writers from British Columbia 1152:"AJAs announces 2012 winners" 1097:"AJAs announces 2019 Winners" 299:. She holds a Certificate in 849:Davie, Emma (June 1, 2020). 793:"Marjorie Simmins on memoir" 71:Writer, journalist, teacher. 1338:King, Nancy (May 6, 2020). 562:In 2020, Simmins published 1467: 1436:Canadian women journalists 1257:Simmins, Marjorie (2021). 1122:Simmins, Marjorie (2011). 1101:Atlantic Journalism Awards 1042:Simmins, Marjorie (2020). 878:Simmins, Marjorie (2016). 824:Simmins, Marjorie (2014). 279:In 1984, Simmins earned a 1431:Canadian women memoirists 1396:Canadian magazine writers 291:in Literacy Education at 272:In an interview with the 226:Early years and education 28: 1406:Writers from Nova Scotia 1156:Cision (Canada Newswire) 399:Burlington, Newfoundland 346:National Magazine Awards 210:National Magazine Awards 123:Year of the Horse (2016) 1069:""Rockin the blues..."" 826:Coastal Lives: a memoir 478:Simmins's second book, 444:Coastal Lives: A Memoir 424:Coastal Lives: A Memoir 418:Coastal Lives: A Memoir 1240:Times & Transcript 1224:The Antigonish Review 1194:The Antigonish Review 538:from Nova Scotia and 495:The Antigonish Review 459:The Antigonish Review 381:Her 2019 article for 361:Silver Donald Cameron 240:Vancouver Art Gallery 220:Silver Donald Cameron 198:The Antigonish Review 139:Silver Donald Cameron 1416:Canadian equestrians 1209:The Chronicle-Herald 718:. 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Index

Simmins in 2017
Ottawa
Ontario
University of British Columbia
Mount Saint Vincent University
Memoir
Essay
Journalism
Silver Donald Cameron
Canadian
essays
memoir
journalism
Vancouver Sun
The Chronicle-Herald
Canadian Living
The Antigonish Review
National Magazine Awards
Silver Donald Cameron
Vancouver
British Columbia
Vancouver Art Gallery
half-Arabian
pony
schizophrenia
barbiturates
heroin
mental disorder
Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia
Bachelor's Degree

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