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Profile of Frances Boyle, with a few questions
My profile of Ottawa poet Frances Boyle, with a few questions, is now up at Open Book: Ontario. Might we see you at the launch of her first poetry collection, Light-carved Passages (BuschekBooks)...
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writing spaces : the new quarterly blog
I participated recently in The New Quarterly's "writing spaces" series, over at their enormously clever blog, referencing the "three things I can't write without."
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Travis Cebula and Sarah Suzor, After The Fox
I don’t care whose drink it was.I don’t care if you ordered fourteen more.I care about the consequences,about the reaction,about the way your feet hit the street that night.Alone, Nocturnal.We were...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Tim Atkins
Tim Atkins is the author of many books of poetry, including 25 Sonnets (The Figures), Horace (O Books), Petrarch (Book Thug), Folklore (Salt), Petrarch (Barque), 1000 Sonnets (if p then q), and Honda...
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fwd: CWILA Call for Essays by Indigenous Writers
CWILA Call for Essays by Indigenous WritersCanadian Women in the Literary Arts (CWILA)is actively seeking essays by female or two-spirit Indigenous Canadian writers. Essays may be on any topic related...
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Ongoing notes: Meet the Presses’ 2014 Indie Market
On November 22, 2014, above/ground press participated in our first ever Indie Market in Toronto, hosted by Meet the Presses, and had a magnificent day! We’re hoping we might even be invited back,...
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Kayla Czaga, For Your Safety Please Hold On
FUNNYOn the bus today, a man looked like you with your teethremoved, his lips a wild party on his face. Father, youare not dead yet, though doctors keep removing bitsof you. Soon you’ll carry me...
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fwd: call for submissions: the 4th annual Robin Blaser Poetry Award
The Capilano Review invites entries for our 4th annual Robin Blaser Poetry Award to be judged by renowned poet, dramatist, and novelist Daphne Marlatt.Daphne Marlattis the recipient of the...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Vanessa Blakeslee
Vanessa Blakeslee's debut short story collection, Train Shots, was released in March, 2014 by Burrow Press. Her writing has appeared in The Southern Review, Green Mountains Review, The Paris Review...
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fwd: Calling all Ottawa writers! Ottawa Magazine launches short story contest
“A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick – a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart.” – Neil Gaiman It might be snowy outside, but over at Ottawa...
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Paige Taggart, Or Replica
Change is comfortable for those looking to buy it. To find a reason to wake up in the morning. My house has beautiful light, tall windows. I could last here forever. The snow makes everything brighter...
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12 or 20 (small press) questions with Caryl Pagel on Rescue Press
Mission: Rescue Press is a library of chaotic and investigative work. We are interested in stories, essays, experiments, poetry, art, and anything else that transforms us.CarylPagel is the author of...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Craig Santos Perez
Craig Santos Perez is a native Chamoru from the Pacific Island of Guåhan/Guam. He is the co-founder of Ala Press, co-star of the poetry album Undercurrent (Hawai’i Dub Machine, 2011), and author of...
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Alex Leslie, The Things I Heard About You
The book that dreams all the names swollen green and black and yellow. Watermarks, birthmarks, names left out in the rainforest grow a new spore body, spine slipped by the pages that broke out. Popped...
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the chaudiere books blog:
There has been a ton of activity lately on the Chaudiere Books blog worth paying attention to, including new reviews of Amanda Earl's Kiki, Roland Prevost's Singular Plurals, Monty Reid's Garden and my...
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Michelle Detorie, After-Cave
In motion is how we live, sleeping inside skin. I want wheels turning only in, around. My clothes, they get thin as I get worn. We were looking out for tracing clouds, fin slid under wing. We were...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Rodney Koeneke
Rodney Koeneke’slatest poetry collection, Etruria, is just out from Wave Books. He’s also the author of Musee Mechanique and Rouge State, as well as four chapbooks. He studied history at U.C. Berkeley...
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fwd: THE WRITERS' UNION OF CANADA ANNOUNCES 22nd ANNUAL SHORT PROSE...
The Writers' Union of Canada is pleased to launch its 22nd Annual Short Prose Competition for Developing Writers, which invites writers to submit a piece of fiction or non-fiction of up to 2,500 words...
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the return of The Peter F. Yacht Club regatta/reading/christmas party!
lovingly hosted by rob mclennan;The Peter F. Yacht Club annual regatta/christmas party& issue launch for The Peter F Yacht Club #21: edited/produced by rob mclennanat The Carleton Tavern...
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Dorothea Lasky, Rome
THE AMETHYSTAll my lifeIt was a lieTo try to go towards blissBut death is the ultimate blissfulnessTo be a candy or a corpseThe world holds you on its tongueAnd no one can save youNot even your own...
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