Caroline Woodward is writing up a blizzard during the month of April as writer-in-residence at the Wallace Stegner House. During week one, she presented her Fear & Imagination session, with readings from Singing Away the Dark and A West Coast Summer, to her K-3 fan base at Eastend School. She wrote a book review for BC Bookworld and filled out her PLR and Access Copyright forms to beat the deadlines and then started writing short stories for her first new collection since the much-anthologized stories of Disturbing the Peace, circa 1990, a finalist for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize.

With a view of spectacular sunsets on the Cypress Hills from the study and access to the in-house library of Stegner's books as well as many books donated by writers who have lived and worked here since 1990, with much gratitude to the Eastend Arts Council, productivity and creativity are pretty much a given.