Includes index.

Dissecting the way a writer works / Graeme Gibson -- A question of metamorphosis / Linda Sandler -- My mother would rather skate than scrub floors / Joyce Carol Oates -- Dancing on the edge of the precipice / Joyce Carol Oates -- Defying distinctions / Karla Hammond -- Articulating the mute / Karla Hammond -- Using what you're given / Jo Brans -- Tightrope-waling over Niagara Falls / Geoff Hancock -- Waltzing again / Earl G. Ingersoll -- There are no texts without life / Beryl Langer -- Opening a door onto a completely unknown space / Mary Morris -- The beaver's tale / Bruce Meyer and Brian O'Riordan -- The ancient mariner experience of writing, and reading / James McElroy -- Struggling with your angel / Beth Richards -- Fining the inner silence to listen / Gabrielle Meltzer -- To write is to wrestle with an angel in the mud / Rudolf Bader -- Not a cash crop / John Stone -- Starting with the back shelves of the museum / Rebecca Garron -- Letting the words do the work / Evan Solomon -- Fifty-two ways of making butter / Ann Heilmann and Debbie Taylor -- Awaiting the perfect storm / Martin Halliwell.