Pam taught a two session course - 'Short Takes' for the Surrey Continuing Education Creative Writing program in 1998. She reached the finals of the Pacific Northwest Writers' Conference in 1993 and again in '96. Received an Honorable Mention at the Surrey Writers' Conference in 1999. Ms Kent obtained her Creative Writing Diploma from Surrey Continuing Education in 1993. She wrote a humour column for the Surrey Now for over a year.
Most writers write because it's an obsession - an addiction.
We find it as hard to stop putting pen to paper as an alcoholic does to stop drinking. We also want others to read what we write - to gain some recognition. It would be nice to find a place for all the stuff we write that doesn't get accepted. The pieces that we hang onto because we can see the good bits that everyone else seems to be missing, that classic turn of phrase, that slick sentence, that magic metaphor. There is such a place for artists to display their failures - the Museum of Bad Art in Boston.