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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Tania Hershman
Tania Hershman's [photo credit: Naomi Woddis] third short story collection, Some Of Us Glow More Than Others, was published by Unthank Books in May 2017, and her debut poetry collection, Terms &...
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Rose's first morning of SK;
Emperor Rose began full-time senior kindergarten last Friday!And Lady Aoife began her five mornings a week of preschool last Tuesday!I am at my desk.
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Paul Carlucci // rob mclennan // Books on Beechwood
I'll be reading some of my own short stories from a manuscript-in-progress alongside Paul Carlucci at 6pm on Thursday, September 20 as part of the launch of his brand-new book of stories! You should...
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REPORT: THE ABOVE/GROUND PRESS SILVER ANNIVERSARY READING/LAUNCH/PARTY!
photo by Stephen BrockwellIn case you didn't see, I posted a report recently on the above/ground press 25th anniversary event over at the above/ground press blog.
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Erin Hoover
Erin Hoover’s [photo credit: Kira Derryberry] poetry collection, Barnburner, was selected by Kathryn Nuernberger for Elixir Press‘s Antivenom Poetry Award and will be published October 1, 2018. Her...
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the ottawa small press fair, autumn 2018 edition: November 24,
span-o (the small press action network - ottawa) presents: the ottawa small press book fairautumn 2018 / 24th anniversary event!will be held on Saturday, November 24, 2018 in room 203 of the...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Benjamin Hertwig
Benjamin Hertwig's debut book of poems was a finalist for the Governor General's Award, the Raymond Souster Award, and received the poetry prize at the Alberta Book Awards. He is the recipient of a...
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Best American Experimental Writing 2018, ed. Myung Mi Kim
*Wake up around midnight and it is raining. You soaked red lentils in a pot since before the morning. Put the pot on a burner set to high heat. In another pot pour oil then it goes on the burner set to...
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12 or 20 (small press) questions with Jake Syersak and Paul Cunningham on...
Jake Syersak received his MFA from the University of Arizona and is currently a PhD student in English and Creative Writing at the University of Georgia. He is the author of the full-length Yield...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Genevieve Scott
GENEVIEVE SCOTT is a graduate of the University of British Columbia’s Creative Writing MFA. Her short fiction has been published in literary journals in Canada and the United Kingdom, including the New...
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MC Hyland, Neveragainland and The End: Part One
iceberg! iceberg!dust suspended in projector-beam. blue side of glacier. slipping. smash! bedsheetshaken by hidden hands. sad-eyed polarbear or sad-eyed actor. soliloquy. thus endssad bear, hungry,...
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rob mclennan + Christine McNair in London (UK), September 30, 2018
Christine and I will be reading in London on September 30, 2018 as part of the Queen Mob's Teahouse"teaparty" at the Primrose Hill Community Library (Camden Town), alongside Russell Bennetts and...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Mark Spitzer
Mark Spitzer is the author of 30 books ranging from translations of French criminals and misanthropes to international investigations into “monster fish” to novels of comedy and violence. He has...
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father update : home
for the weekend, to see how he can manage. The past couple of weeks he's been at the hospital in Alexandria for rehab, moved out of Ottawa's Heart Institute. This is the first he's been home since the...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Lindsay Turner
Lindsay Turner is the author of Songs & Ballads (Prelude, 2018). Her translations from the French include Ryoko Sekiguchi's adagio ma non troppo(Les Figues, 2018), and Stéphane Bouquet's The Next...
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IF wants to be the same as IS: Essential Poems of David Bromige, eds. Jack...
Poetic labels can be applied to his work, though no single scheme does him much justice. I myself have written elsewhere that the transition from Tight Corners (1974) to My Poetry (1980)...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with C.G. Menon
C. G. Menon is the author of Subjunctive Moods, from Dahlia Publishing. She’s won or been placed in a number of short story competitions, including the Fish, Bridport, Bare Fiction and Short Fiction...
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Julie Bruck, How to Avoid Huge Ships
EARWORMI met him in an airport last June. He was reading new poems by W.S. Merwin. In hardcover. A rare species! He’d been Lou Reed’s keyboard player, among other things, and said good poems helped him...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Ryan Vine
Ryan Vine’s debut full collection To Keep Him Hidden (Salmon, 2018) was a finalist for the May Swenson Prize, the New Issues Prize, the Crab Orchard Series, the MVP Prize from New Rivers Press,...
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scotland the brave (or: when we were high(land,
Did I mention we were away for nine days? No? Only our second child-free travel together since Rose was born [see our prior trip here], organized in part because Christine received a writing grant...
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