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Queen Mob's Teahouse: Jeremy Luke Hill interviews Marianne Micros
As my tenure as interviews editor at Queen Mob's Teahouse continues, the latest interview is now online, asJeremy Luke Hill interviews Marianne Micros. Other interviews from my tenure include: an...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Natalia Hero
Natalia Hero is a fiction writer and translator from Montreal. Her work has been featured in places like Carte Blanche, Cosmonauts Avenue, Peach Mag, and Shabby Doll House. Her translation of Laurence...
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Arc walks, 2018 : Hintonburg,
photo pilfered from the internet ; not actually from the eventThis is the text of the penultimate of four “Arc Walks”[see links to the whole series--Centretown, Glebe, Hintonburg and the Byward...
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new from above/ground press: Townsend, Archer, Kaminski, McElroy, Izsak +...
Pyramid SongJamie Townsend$5See link here for more informationAutopsy ReportSacha Archer$5See link here for more informationEach AcreMegan Kaminski$5See link here for more informationLAOS (Some Julian...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Dustin Pearson
Dustin Pearson is the author of Millennial Roost and A Family Is a House (C&R Press, 2019). He is a McKnight Doctoral Fellow in Creative Writing at Florida State University. The recipient of...
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a new chapbook: Glossary of Musical Terms
I have a new poetry chapbook, Glossary of Musical Terms, available as a free pdf online via where is the river, part of their first series of chapbooks, alongside Amanda Earl and Michael Sikkema....
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Julia Drescher, Open Epic
Hunting is aboutThe hunt meaningSomething & suchForce one more than oneContaining such asMore than one such& such waiting on beasts& are our means forHunting hares usingHounds are for...
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Stan Lee (December 28, 1922 – November 12, 2018)
Given his death a few days ago, I feel like I have to talk about Stan Lee, well-known as one of the most important elements of establishing Marvel Comics, making the “Silver Age of Comics” an actual...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Geoffrey Hilsabeck
Geoffrey Hilsabeck is the author of Riddles, Etc. (The Song Cave, 2017). His poems and essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Tupelo Quarterly, Lit Hub, and elsewhere. He lives in...
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new from above/ground press: G U E S T [a journal of guest editors] #1
above/ground press debuted a new journal this past week: G U E S T [a journal of guest editors]issue #1 is edited by Amanda Earl (issue #2 will be edited by Stuart Ross)and this first issue features...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Joan Naviyuk Kane
Joan Naviyuk Kane’s books and chapbooks of prose and poetry include The Cormorant Hunter’s Wife, Hyperboreal, The Straits, Milk Black Carbon, A Few Lines in the Manifest, Sublingual(November 2018), and...
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Ongoing notes: Meet the Presses (part one,
[Invisible Publishing, on point (so to speak) (being invisible]Given how excited I know you are about this weekend’s ottawa small press book fair (whether the reading on Friday night or the fair itself...
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my (small press) writing day : new essays + ongoing submission call,
So, I had been curious for some time about The Guardian’s occasional feature “My Writing Day,” and thought it would be interesting to do a blog of the same, “for those of us who might never make it...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Jenn Stroud Rossmann
Jenn Stroud Rossmannis a fiction writer and an engineer. Her first novel, The Place You're Supposed to Laugh, came out November 14, 2018, from 7.13 Books. She writes the essay series An Engineer Reads...
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Ongoing notes: Meet the Presses (part two,
[Michael e. Casteels and his Puddles of Sky Press]Further to my recent participation in Toronto’s Meet the Presses’ annual Indie Literary Market [see part one of my notes here], here is another item I...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Jenny Haysom
Jenny Haysomwas born in England and raised in Nova Scotia. She completed a Master's degree in English Literature at the University of Ottawa in the 90s, and has since worked for independent booksellers...
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Ongoing notes: Meet the Presses (part three,
[the view from my table]Further to my recent participation in Toronto’s Meet the Presses’ annual Indie Literary Market [see part one of my notes here; part two of my notes here], here are another few...
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Norma Cole, Fate News
#3if or when one of the magical sealsgives way when does the first paradeof theories begin bracing myselfto outside worked up bright bandsbeside normal a problem of tapes thena record of...
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Ongoing notes: the ottawa small press book fair (part one,
[Robert Hogg talking to Stuart Ross, at Ross' Proper Tales Press table]You might have noticed I’ve been sketching out short reviews of a variety of items gathered at Toronto’s Meet the Presses [see my...
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