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Hello true believers, About four years ago, I began a blog series called "Island Boy Public Journal" - basically it was a series of open letters to my home of Prince Edward Island. I began writing during lockdown when I couldn't visit my family or my friends and was more homesick than I've ever been. These embarrassing letters soon took on a life of their own and became a series of live solo shows (I named the cycle "Islandography" because "Island Boy" became a terrible rap d

As we pull up to another red light, my mind is busy piecing together the fragments of a newly rewritten scene. I’m not sure if it was the...

If Wes Anderson directed an episode of Game of Thrones that was written by Neil Gaiman, you would have David Lowery’s The Green Knight....

Over the past several months, I have been working with Creative PEI's HIVE Program - a collection of 25 artists being trained as...

Every Friday in Pooles Corner, Prince Edward Island, three Shaws could be spotted in the corner of The Whim Inn restaurant. An unknowing...

The balance of trust when working with a colleague can be challenging, but perhaps all the more challenging when working with a friend....

Recently in a group discussion, a friend mine admitted she did not have a driver’s licence. Imagine: a fully capable adult without a...

The act of going out to the theatre used to feel like a holiday. There’s a festive spirit in the air, people are generally happy to be...

I was five years old and going with my dad to get some carpentry materials from a warehouse that belonged to a friend of his. In the...

Borrowing its name from the Shel Silverstein classic, Liam Corcoran’s latest album Giving Tree and Other Songs offers a compilation of...

“If we were in a plane crash and I died, would you eat me to survive?” After I asked my partner this question on an afternoon drive, I...

Music can make you aware of feelings you didn’t know you had. All it took was an asthma attack at my sister’s wedding to prove it to me....

There are many words I’d use to describe my Mom, such as provider, caregiver, and joker; however, the word ‘fighter’ is not one that...

Every time I return home to visit my parents in New Perth, Prince Edward Island, I can’t help but marvel at how so much feels the same....