Sylvie Hill

This is an Open Letter that captures my experience with migraine. Published June 21, 2022 in La Tribune. Photo images from the Internet were added to this blog post and not a part of the original La Tribune article. *** Journée mondiale de solidarité pour la migraine: une pathologie insidieuse et stigmatisée POINT DE VUE […]

I was honoured during the summer of 2019 to peer-review an anthology of essays and poems about mothers in dangerous times. An exceptional and enlightening read now published, Motherhood in Precarious Times is available for purchase for $24.95 on Demeter Press. My favouring review appears on the back blurb of the book. “Motherhood in Precarious […]

Lola Art Magazine – Issue #10

DiscUSsion or – just digust? I used to GET PAID for my public opinion that appeared in a printed weekly in news agent boxes on every bloody street corner, of every Ottawa city street stretching from the downtown out to suburban Orleans and Barhaven, and over to rural Perth, and into Quebec’s Chelsea and as […]

Tune in to Shaun Galanos‘s Pop-Up Podcast from Parc Lafontaine, Montreal recorded Saturday, June 2, 2018, featuring three informal chats with strangers who were drawn in by his “FREE LOVE ADVICE” sign! I was happy to be one of the chatting ladies — catch me at 13:33 talking about how I think my Sex life […]

Your Mind Tonight I took this moment to take this photo as he walked off into the distance. Parted, he drifted floated in the crowd. And when he noticed I wasn’t with him turned around. No panic. No reaction. I watched you watch and look about. Un-phased, but you would have logically sorted out the […]

James Joyce is coming to Carleton University‘s LEARNING IN RETIREMENT PROGRAM this Fall 2018 | SIGN UP here! Following my five successful years of teaching James Joyce’s Ulysses at uOttawa’s School for Continuing Education, making new friends among participants, and creating new Joyce fans, I’m excited to start work to deliver a 2hr-workshop lecture at […]

Being a “starving artist” is someone who is living their truth. They are choosing to operate outside of the system they fear PREVENTS them from being authentic to their Self. So for the rest of us… how do we navigate our ‘truth’ in a system that we feel is a bit cock-eyed? One that restricts […]

If you’re a musical artist looking for writing support for your album, reach out! Prepared bios, meaningful song reviews, and other press bits assist your PR team greatly by providing them the right stuff they need to talk accurately about the art and craft of your work. *** Special music inspires me. So, in 2017, […]

It was a full house for another one of the courses I created called “Tales of Female Betrayal: 8 stories of wives, unsatisfied” for the University of Ottawa’s Personal Enrichment Activities Program at the Centre for Continuing Education, downtown. Follow along by checking out some videos I share with the class. It’s an intriguing exploration […]