Faeries, come take me out of this dull world,
For I would ride with you upon the wind,
Run on the top of the dishevelled tide,
And dance upon the mountains like a flame!
~ William Butler Yeats, “The Land of Heart’s Desire.”
Hello there. Thank you for visiting my little corner of the Internet!
My writer’s name — just like my real name — is Sylvia Lorianne Leong. I’m a therapeutic personal trainer, a devoted environmentalist, and even in the face of rejection after rejection, I can’t stop writing. My independent nature normally makes me unemployable, yet a literary magazine allows me to be one of their first readers and the North Shore Writers’ Association is letting me edit their newsletters.
My novel, THE UNWICKED WITCH, was a quarterfinalist in Pulp Literature Press’s First Page Match. Chapter Six, adapted into a short historical fiction, won third place in Vancouver’s 27th Annual North Shore Writing Competition. Three of my short stories are published. Plus, I hold the prize for the most drafts needed before any of my writing is readable.
The City of North Vancouver, past and present, inspires my fiction while the surrounding ocean, ravines, and mountains influence my creativity. When not in the rainforest snapping photos and searching for fairies, I’m snuggled in bed with my laptop writing a ménage à trois of romantic, historical, and contemporary fantasy. You’ll find me with my husband drinking wine in our Cottage in the Sky, or more probable, because we never answer our door, at:
slleongwriter@gmail.com
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North Vancouver is located on unceded Coast Salish Territory, the traditional lands of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) First Nations, whose ancestors have lived here for countless generations.
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