Nora Bingham

Words

Nora lives at the edge of the forest in Cumberland, BC. Growing up on Quadra Island, she perfected the art of reading and walking at the same time, and now balances her appetite for books with roaming the woods and beaches of islands, big and small. Nora is a lover of the written word in almost all its forms, and has a particular fondness for dictionaries.

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CONTRIBUTIONS BY Nora

RECOMMITTING TO FILM

Comox Valley Collective 2023 Summer

When I phone Dave Hall to chat about his Comox Valley-based camera repair business, we struggle through a minute or two of trying to communicate over a bad cell connection […]

Words by Nora Bingham
Photos by Meredith Rose

THE ONLY WAY OUT IS THROUGH

Comox Valley Collective 2020 Fall Literature is Lit

Full disclosure: I am a Traci Skuce fangirl, but because one of the things I love so much about the way she writes is her precision and economy of language, […]

Words by Nora Bingham

THE CURVE OF TIME

Comox Valley Collective 2020 Literature is Lit Spring

I grew up in a house where bookshelves reached the ceilings, with cascading spider plants tucked in among the books. Somewhere near the cobwebbed top shelf, a battered copy of […]

Words by Nora Bingham
Cover painting by Harry Heine

BRAVO FOR BUCKET OF BLOOD

Comox Valley Collective 2019 Winter

It’s two in the morning. I just turned the last page of Kim Bannerman’s book, Bucket of Blood. I flip through the last few blank pages, hoping for a shred […]

Words by Nora Bingham
Illustration by Claire Guiot

THE BRIGHTEST PATH

Comox Valley Collective 2019 Summer

Escape. Run away. Get lost. Get free. Last winter, when the long stretch of darkness was at its most oppressive, a perfect storm of opportunity provided the light I needed. […]

Words by Nora Bingham
Photos by Meredith Rose

PRE-LOVED

Comox Valley Collective 2017 Fall

I have always loved reading, but fell hard for books when I was eight. We were living in an amateur’s converted barn with questionable heat and electricity, and no TV. […]

Words by Nora Bingham
Photos by Nora Bingham

MATERIAL CREATIVE

Comox Valley Collective 2017 Summer

When I arrived at Material Creative’s studio in Cumberland, an unseasonable rain was falling and the air was cool. Lush gardens led to a building reminiscent of all the hippie […]

Words by Nora Bingham
Photos by Meredith Rose

HEIRLOOM SEEDS

Comox Valley Collective 2017 Spring

The first time I ate an heirloom tomato I had my doubts. I was never a tomato lover. I’d seen too many sandwiches go down in the rough seas of […]

Words by Nora Bingham
Photos by Meredith Rose

WHERE CURIOSITY MEETS BRILLIANCE

Comox Valley Collective 2016 Fall

Imagine a library. Books lining the shelves, open ceilings, and the wonderful smell of endless possibilities floating through the air. Imagine a place where you can hide away from dull […]

Words by Nora Bingham
& Comox Valley Kids

ALTERNATIVE THERAPY

Comox Valley Collective 2016 Summer

I was raised by an artist. She painted signs, designed graphics, papier mâché’d masks, and rearranged and repainted our living room countless times. Her art hung on nearly every wall, […]

Words by Nora Bingham
Photos by Ron Pogue

LOST AND FOUND

Comox Valley Collective 2016 Spring Where

A light rain is trying to fall, but it’s more of a mist in the air that clings to eyelashes and hangs, tremulous on cedar branch tips before falling to […]

Words by Nora Bingham
Photos by Paige Owen