Alison Armstrong-Webber

Alison Armstrong-Webber  began  writing when her son was three, with an article covering the antique boat show at Dow’s Lake in Ottawa, for Canadian Yachting magazine, an assignment her mother helpfully passed to her. ( There is a family line of writers, with some colourful life stories.) She’s been writing mainly poetry since 2000. Three of her ghazals, a favourite form, appeared on The Ghazal Page (TGP) online. She’s won or placed eleven times in the Interboard Poetry Competition (IBPC Web Del Sol) since 2012 and is a longtime member of a virtual poetry workshop.  “How The Wind Works” took first place, January 2019.  “I think of the Colour Purple” was IBPC  Poem of the Year, 2019-2020, a poem written in Mexico visiting family following a spectacular and complete  life change. Her home is currently in Ottawa, after many years living on the edge of Forest Hill Village, Toronto, next to the ravine--the inspiration of a forthcoming first chapbook “A beautiful Place That You Will Leave”.