Todd Allen has taken the plunge from reading books to writing them with his debut novel, Sacra Obscurum. Sacra Obscurum grew from Allen’s first hand experience with New Brunswick’s mental health care system after he and his wife made an emergency trip to the hospital to visit a recently arrested family member. The process would ultimately lead Allen to a gauntlet of psychiatrists, diagnoses, and ‘assembly line care’. Continue reading Todd Allen: Dark Fiction in Saint Andrews
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Clyde Wray: Saint John’s Storyteller
Clyde Wray is a poet, a writer, a performer, a producer, and a storyteller. When he speaks it’s in the low rumble of thunder, the room trembles, and small mammals go scampering for the hills. Any occasion to read his words is an opportunity lost that you might have heard them aloud. Most importantly though, Clyde is alive, and he wants you to know that. It’s a relatively common condition, and thus a relatable one, but Clyde embraces it with the full of his being; waking at hours most people would consider death defying, “I don’t like sleeping. I’ve been up now since three o’clock this morning. I like being up, I like being awake, I like being able to have a thought, I like seeing the stars and the moon, I like being in the sun, I like to see the sun go down. It’s all very romantic. I like being in life.” Continue reading Clyde Wray: Saint John’s Storyteller