Graeme

Graeme Burk is a freelance writer, wit, bon vivant and man about town. Over the past ten years he has written for (and edited) a number of small press magazines and websites. He has had short stories published by the BBC and has been a finalist for a Writers Guild of Canada award for new screenwriters.

This site is devoted to Graeme's writing and includes his column, which is published on an occasional basis once or twice a month (or more!).

The Column

January 12, 2004

  • Moving The Goalposts
  • Fun and games with the Writers Guild of Canada

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    January 04, 2004

  • The Waitress Mystique
  • Restaurants are probably one of the last places where a heterosexual male can flirt with a woman casually with mostly no consequences.

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    December 28, 2003

  • 15 Things I Learned In 2003
  • the fifteen best things I learned this year

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    December 14, 2003

  • Big Red Dogs Don’t Talk
  • Surprisingly the only literary adaptation for film or TV that had me just about declaring war on Hollywood was, in fact, Clifford, the Big Red Dog

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    December 07, 2003

  • Fat People Don’t Shop Here
  • There are many loathsome experiences in this life but possibly one of the worst for me has to be clothes shopping in the Eaton Centre

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    November 30, 2003

  • Stepping Back from the Abyss
  • Da Vinci’s Inquest is back.

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    November 16, 2003

  • Things To Do When You’re (Not) Writing
  • There are many professions that allow you to goof off, but writing lets you goof off in the hope that you’ll actually accomplish your goals on time.

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    November 09, 2003

  • Thirty-Four
  • The hardest thing about finding myself entrenched in my thirties is sorting out the disconnection between what I perceived myself being at this age when I was younger, and what I actually am.

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    November 02, 2003

  • Can’t Stop The Train
  • Why I love Train 48

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    October 26, 2003

  • Surviving Breakups: An A to Z
  • A handy primer on what to expect in the first few months after an emotional breakup

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    October 19, 2003

  • Integrity Before Unity
  • It’s a shame that when it comes to the issue of gays and lesbians in the Anglican Church, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams has proven to be a mealy-mouthed coward like the rest of the hegemony of Anglican Bishops.

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    October 12, 2003

  • October Memory
  • Thanksgiving weekend, 1981. In a few short hours I will see my father after the longest month in the history of my life.

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    October 05, 2003

  • Time For A Better Song
  • Welcome to my living hell: six hours at Canada’s largest singles event.

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    September 28, 2003

  • Fans of Losing
  • Whether you’re a devotee of sports or science fiction, trains or television series, loss and losing is a central part of being a fan.

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    September 21, 2003

  • The Writer As Character
  • Is The West Wing about to head into the same troubles as NYPD Blue? What do you do when a good TV series loses its primary creative voice?

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