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Workbook: memos & dispatches on writing, a collection of memos, aphorisms, rants, provocations, and fragmentary essays published by ECW (misFit editions), October 2011
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This book is an embarrassment of riches… Every section is deft, dry and delightful.
—Numéro Cinq
Workbook contains lots of good, well-thought out advice said well… [with] a complexity and a keen-eyed vision of literature and the world… Heighton as character, hero of the workbook on writing, exhibits his own contradictions even in this finely pared down work of many years. And it's a stronger work for it. Of the genre, certainly, one of the better.
—National Post
Not so much a how-to or a classroom guide as… a glimpse into the mind of an artist fully engaged in his craft. [The memos] read like flashes of insight, sparks struck from the forge of a working writer.
—Kingston Whig-Standard
Publisher's description:
Since selections first appeared in the New Quarterly and the National Post's online Afterword, Steven Heighton's memos and dispatches to himself - a writer's pointed, cutting take on his own work and the work of writing - have been tweeted and retweeted, discussed and tacked to bulletin boards everywhere. Coalesced, completed, and collected here for the first time, a wholly new kind of book has emerged, one that's as much about creative process as it is about created product, at once about living life and the writing life.
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