Black & White: An Anthology

By Interior Authors Group

All of this anthology's stories, poems, articles, and more were written by members of the Interior Authors Group based in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada. The book Black and White inspires thought and uses mental imagery under some beckoning titles:

Black and White Thinking, an enticing poem that searches out the heart, and Are They Black?, a memoir of travel in the Black Hills, kick off this anthology. Involution meditates on how light and dark manipulate change. The selection Freedom examines Black and White as a parallel and shows that the two sides have contrasting freedom-zones. A Rainy Day Tale presents a time for sunshine and for rain. The Mall Wife zeros in on three different lifestyles that collide and eventually lead to a beneficial climax. Visiting Yesterday leads readers to contrast the here-and-now with bygone days. The Magic of the Tree features lights and shadows and the splendid music of the night. These are only sample titles in this amazing read. Fittingly, the final selection is the musical score for the thoughtful Adagio in C Minor.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Interior Authors Group
• Release date: Sep 22, 2015
• ISBN: 9780973789034

Interior Authors Group

Interior Authors Group are people who love to write in all styles, forms, and genres. We're poets, song writers, bloggers, screenplay creators and journalists and we write in every other genre and sub-genre you can come up with. We are authors: literary, romance, mystery, non-fiction, veteran, and debut authors, and a whole bunch of people who aspire to get that first book, and many more, into print.Our mission statement is: To bring together those persons interested in the art of writing, and all its ancillary functions including editing, design, illustrating, publishing, and promoting.

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Authors

Sharon Antoniak

Sharon Antoniak has written poetry and short stories as a method to record her life experiences and values for many years. Her passion for nature and the environment is reflected in her work. Sharon’s written works have been used as teaching tools in her career as a special education consultant and also in entertaining family and friends.

Barbara Ballé

Born in Poland she immigrated to Canada in 1967 – always interested in Arts – majoring in theatre studies in high school; studying English Literature at Grande Prairie Regional College, AB; and, Drama and Creative Writing at Capilano College, North Vancouver, BC.

Living on the West Coast, surrounded by the Pacific Ocean and Coast Mountains and inspired by its beauty, she started writing poetry and short stories. She retired to Kamloops in 2002, where she joined the Interior Authors Group. She published a collection of poems Life Jingling in My Pockets in 2009; other works have appeared in IAG’s Collected Works, Vol. 1, 2010 and Blue River Dark Waters, Collected Works, 2011

Don Barz

Don Barz is currently working on two writing projects: an historical memoir of his father’s and uncle’s years as trappers and fur traders in the Yukon Territory in the 1930s and 40s; and, an historical novel set in Berlin, 1914 about the start of the Great War. Residing in Kamloops, British Columbia, Don has a Bachelor of Arts in Geography from Simon Fraser University, and a Masters of Environmental Design from the University of Calgary. He worked in resource and community planning. Currently, he works as an investment advisor. Don is co-author of an outdoor recreation guide published in 1977, Trails to the Shuswap.

Jeff Bloom

I was born in Kamloops and became very involved in sports. My parents bought Peter Hope Fishing Resort when I was seventeen and it was there that I started writing.

After Gail and I were married, we moved to Merritt, BC, where I started my career in teaching and we raised our two incredible children. I am presently in my 40th year of teaching.

My writing has been influenced by my upbringing and most of my stories are based on true events. I have three previous publications, A Taste of the Valley, an historical review of the Nicola Valley, Squawker: Free as a Bird, a children’s picture book, and The Chicken House Caper, part of an anthology called Kaleidoscope, published by the Interior Authors Group.

Hugh Burton

Hugh Burton was born in Kamloops, BC where he lived until moving to Vancouver to attend the University of British Columbia. In 1972, he relocated to Ontario and over the next 36 years he taught Environmental Science, Electron Microscopy and Microbiology at Seneca College of Applied Arts & Technology and Trent University. In 2006, he and his wife, Pat, retired to Lac Le Jeune, BC, where they share their enjoyment of writing, art, and music. Family is an integral part of life and much time is spent with the four children and seven grandchildren.

Colleen Kanten Carbol

Writing has been important to Colleen since her early teens, surfacing like an underground stream throughout her lifetime. Her earliest writing attempts were penned by hand—like the one that placed first in an Alberta-wide writing contest when she was sixteen.

During her presumptuous high school years, she also had fun earning a few rejection slips for short story attempts. Whisking her rhymes off to the poet laureate of a country newspaper proved more successful.

Now she has nearly completed revising her 95,000 word contemporary novel, tentatively titled Find Me on Fourth Street, a mother-daughter story based on her experiences as a mother and pastor’s wife.

She lives in Kamloops, BC and belongs to the Interior Authors Group, and also The Word Guild.

Shirley Dodding

Married Nov. 8th 2014: previously published under Shirley E. Collins

Grade seven teacher for 28 years.

Author of:

Asparagus To Computers: The First One Hundred Years (An Historical Development of School District 24 Kamloops, B.C. 1885-1985) Henry Grube Education Centre, Kamloops, BC, 1985.

You Look Just Like Her

RoseDog Books, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

2010 (Amazon list for two years)

Love In The Time Of Roller Skates published in My Love To You Always 2012 (Compilation of 42 real stories of enduring love chosen from