Pamela Larner

Pam says…Moving to Beach Country a year and a half ago was like coming home. The Lake, the landscape, the lovely variety among the artistic people I have met here, all have encouraged me to become serious about my writing. Much of my inspiration comes from my teaching career, a life-changing period of which was spent in North Africa. More recent grist for the mill has come from my life and struggles as a wheel barrow farmer/B&B operator on a ten acre centennial farmstead in rural Manitoba.

Coming here, I brought along a folder of material I had composed over the years. The Lake Winnipeg Writers’ Group has provided support, enthusiasm and positive literary critique of these works and of my efforts composed since arriving here on Halloween 2012. Sharing one’s work with other writers enables one to see things from varied and often surprising perspectives. Sharing also motivates the writer to do better and more. It has been a pleasure to have my writing published in the LWWG’s twice-annual Voices.

My natural milieu seems to be the short story, although I am currently working at something that is looking more and more like a novel. At this point, I can’t imagine life without the daily and consuming challenge of translating thought into print.

Pam was our Featured Writer for May 2014.

View Pam’s short story:

Seduced

 

Germaine Gougeon

Between Every Stimulus and Response…there is a Pause…Within that Pause is the Power of Choice…

Germaine Gougeon is the newly published author of Sensory Overload, the journal she kept while on a month-long photographic safari in Kenya, Africa. It is currently available at Tergesen’s in Gimli and on the shelf and online at McNally Robinson Booksellers in Winnipeg.

Germaine comes from a long line of storytellers and poets and loves being able to count herself as one of them. Gerry spent an active youth in Transcona and raised three adventurous daughters in Anola. Before retirement to Gimli and her immersion into community interests there and in Winnipeg Beach, she worked (as Gerry Brophy) with the public in Beausejour and Winnipeg for the provincial government. Along with her pen, Germaine’s camera has been a lifelong companion in her extensive travels. Her photographs and detailed journals of these adventures are shared with family and friends, who tell her they are a “just like being there” kind of experience.

Germaine was our Featured Writer for December 2013.

View Germaine’s stories and poems:

Night Flight
The Blue Haze
Expressions
A Children’s Story: The Spirit of the Lake
The Twisted Journey
White Waters