Sean in Montreal, June, 2006.
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About my essay "The Head Clown,"
Jerry Waxler writes:"The author has crafted a brash, luxurious tale that worked the magic all good stories are supposed to do . . . by focusing tightly on each moment he brought me into his world, endowing scenes with color and character, creating depth of emotion and variety of insight. Toner's exquisite attention on small details provided me with so much pleasure I was sorry to see it end."
Please scroll down to find a link to "The Head Clown."
Behind every accomplishment I list on these pages stands a cadre without whom I would have achieved nothing. Thank you to all mentioned, and unmentioned, on this site.
I'm still in the literary preseason, but since going totally blind in 1995 I have published ten short stories, have won or been a finalist in fifteen national and regional writing competitions in literary and genre categories, and am featured in Web Del Sol's "Best of the Literary Journals."
As a board member of the Philadelphia Writers Conference, I have been named creator and chair of its Free Forums, which take place at Drexel University. I now also serve as the PWC's vice president and workshops chair
I have taught at the Ocean City, NJ, Arts Center and have been a public speaker at schools, retirement centers and Lions clubs in MO, NJ and PA about living and working with blindness. I have served on the editorial board of Philadelphia Stories magazine, took my MFA from Fairleigh Dickinson, and am profoundly thankful to my mentors there. I now serve on the reading staff of The Literary Review.
I have the stellar good fortune to live with my love, virtuoso writer Robin Parks on the Philadelphia Main Line.
Please check out my father's obituary and links to his paintings at the bottom of this page, at TNT R.I.P.
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