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Mo Duffy Cobb

Mo Duffy Cobb is the author of The Chemistry of Innovation (Island Studies Press, 2021) and Unpacked: from PEI to Palawan (Pottersfield Press, 2017). With an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts in creative nonfiction, she is the Founder and Editor of Cargo Literary, a literary magazine that pursues transformational travel stories, and now helps other writers tell their stories through her freelance work. Her work has appeared in Malahat Review, Montreal Writes, Write Magazine, Understorey, Damselfly Press, Empty Mirror, Literary Mama and The Rumpus. She lives in exotic Prince Edward Island, Canada, where is executive director of the PEI Writers Guild and the artistic director of Wild Threads Literary Festival. And yes - she grows her own potatoes.

Launch DAY

by Mo Duffy Cobb on July 8, 2021January 10, 2022

olleagues from DCL & BioVectra again, Dad got to talk about the US export market (his favourite thing) and Mom got to reminisce on all the magical memories they made along the way.

Welcome to the world, The Chemistry of Innovation!

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book projects

reporting back to ’93

by Mo Duffy Cobb on April 26, 2021April 26, 2021

When The Globe and Mail published my essay last month, I had a memory flood back.

When we moved to Montreal in the summer of 1993, my average in Language Arts was 99%. I had wooed all my junior high teachers likely being a bit of a smooth talker and making sure to get in the right groups. Being fourteen, I bragged to my parents that of course, i knew everything.

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the struggling writer bit

october workshop: building a journal writing practice

by Mo Duffy Cobb on October 30, 2020January 15, 2021

Thanks to the Association for Newcomers to Canada for inviting me to host their workshop, “Journaling: How to Building A Creative Practice”.

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teaching and learning

family chemistry

by Mo Duffy Cobb on September 15, 2020January 18, 2021

Introducing my next book, The Chemistry of Innovation: Regis Duffy and the Story of DCL. This book introduces you to to two of the famous people in my life – my mom and dad. 

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book projects, the struggling writer bit

grandfather’s garden

by Mo Duffy Cobb on August 16, 2020January 16, 2021

Crash landing – into a children’s picture book!

Two years ago, I attended a workshop with two of the literary greats of children’s literature in Canada – Humber School of Writing’s Cynthia Good and Rick Wilkes of Annick Press. This cute little book was partly the result!

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book projects, Uncategorized

basically, i’m famous

by Mo Duffy Cobb on June 15, 2020January 15, 2021

Spring update and welcome to pandemic life in Canada! While 2020 has thrown us many curveballs, there have been some pleasant surprises. First of, I have graduated from President of PEI Writers’ Guild to Executive Director!

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the struggling writer bit

Creative Writing Craft Talk & Workshop

by Mo Duffy Cobb on September 20, 2018September 20, 2018

Hark! Mo Duffy Cobb is returning to the classroom this Fall, both at Holland College to teach a new batch of growing young writers, and also at a small art studio in Bedeque, called Soul Play PEI.

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the struggling writer bit

The Word On The Street Halifax

by Mo Duffy Cobb on September 13, 2018September 20, 2018

What a thrill for me to be going back to The Word on the Street Festival this weekend, the place where four years ago, I first pitched #Unpacked to a panel of publishers. I was terrified, but it worked! (For more about that or to pitch your own books, read the Atlantic Books Today feature).

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teaching and learning, the struggling writer bit

eagles of one nest

by Mo Duffy Cobb on March 12, 2018March 12, 2018

The fridge at Mom’s is full of twenty years of photos. New years eves, babies, picture of me on stoops of houses long gone, braces and baby toes, nieces and nephews and everyone in between. I pawed at a butterfly, the symbol I share with mom for all of those we love who have gone on to other worlds.

“She’s there, you know,” Mom said, and whispers, “Little T.”

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Hey, don't do that: life as a mom

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