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The Hardest Thing About Being A Writer : rob mclennan,
In case you didn't see: I answered some (two) of Sachiko Murakami's questions for her "The Hardest Thing About Being A Writer" series; I complain a bit more than I usually do (in print, anyway), and...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Virginia Konchan
Author of Vox Populi (Finishing Line Press), and a collection of short stories, Anatomical Gift (forthcoming, Noctuary Press), Virginia Konchan’s creative work has appeared in The New Yorker, Best New...
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dusie : the tuesday poem,
The Tuesday poem is over three years old, with one hundred and forty-three new poems and counting! Since April 9, 2013, I've been curating a weekly poem over at the dusie blog, an offshoot of the...
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Laura Walker, story
if the story like a river. loose and fretful, twine. if a story with debris and froth, pulling from the banks as it comes, never the same river twice, step in and be renewed. if glass-bottomed boats...
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William Hawkins (May 20, 1940 - July 4, 2016)
As I announced a few days ago on the Chaudiere Books blog, legendary and much beloved Ottawa poet and musician William Alfred Hawkins died at the Queensway-Carleton hospital on Monday afternoon. As...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with William Mark Giles
William Mark Giles: I live on Turtle Island, on the traditional territory of the the Kainai, Piikani, and Siksika Nations of the Blackfoot Confederacy, and also the traditional territory of the Tsuu...
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Touch the Donkey supplement: new interviews with Cook, Turcot, Betts,...
Anticipating the release next week of the tenth issue of Touch the Donkey (a small poetry journal), why not check out the interviews that have appeared over the past few weeks with contributors to the...
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Drunken Boat blog "spotlight" series #3: Kaie Kellough
The third in my monthly "spotlight" series over at the Drunken Boat blog, featuring a new poet with a short statement and a new poem or two, is now online: Montreal poet and performer Kaie Kellough....
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Nelson Ball, Chewing Water
On A Hilltop, Near DrumboTwocowsin the skyexceptwhere hooves and headstouchearthParis, Ontario poet and bookseller Nelson Ball’s latest poetry collection is Chewing Water (Toronto ON: Mansfield Press,...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Christine Kanownik
Christine Kanownik is the author of KING OF PAIN (Monk Books 2016). Her poetry can be found at FENCE, Poetry Crush, Jubilat, among others. Her chapbook We Are Now Beginning to Act Wildly was published...
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Sarah Mangold, Giraffes of Devotion
I had a terrible time because I was not takingthe liquor in those days and they’d say Nowwhat will you drink Of course naturally mydear husband would drink whatever theyoffered him like most naval...
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12 or 20 (small press) questions with Shaun Marie (with ChiaLun Chang, Sarah...
Belladonna* is a feminist avant-garde collective, founded in 1999 by Rachel Levitsky. 2016 marks the 17th anniversary of the Belladonna* mission to promote the work of women writers who are...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Ingrid Ruthig
Ingrid Ruthig [photo credit: Iwona Dufaj] earned a Bachelor of Architecture at the University of Toronto in the 1980s and practised the profession for more than a decade. Her work as a writer, editor,...
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U of Alberta writers-in-residence interviews: Karen Solie (2004-5)
For the sake of the fortieth anniversary of the writer-in-residence program (the longest lasting of its kind in Canada) at the University of Alberta, I have taken it upon myself to interview as many...
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Ongoing notes: the ottawa small press book fair (part one,
[Stephen Brockwell, right, speaking to a seated Jim Johnstone] Okay: given our wee girls, it has taken more than a couple of weeks to start getting into the small mound of publications I ended up with,...
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my father, at seventy-five (a report,
My father turned seventy-five years old on June 26[left: Uncle Don, Kris Jensen, Aunt Pam + Dad], and my sister and I organized and hosted a surprise birthday party for him on the homestead....
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Claudia Casper
Claudia Casper is the author of three novels: The Reconstruction, The Continuation of Love By Other Means, shortlisted for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, and The Mercy Journals. She is writing a...
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Lucy Ives, The Hermit
To experiment with every kind of prose imaginable, e.g., the proses of America. I ask, What is the purpose of clarity, beyond description? Clarity, but to what end? The exquisite prose of Melville,...
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Ongoing notes: the ottawa small press book fair (part two,
Did you see my prior series of notes here? Or, really, my notes from the fair prior to that? I have so many notes on so many things. Should I even possibly start thinking about the dates for the fall...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Randy Lundy
Randy Lundy is a member of the Barren Lands (Cree) First Nation, Brochet, MB. Born Thompson, in northern Manitoba, he has lived most of his life in Saskatchewan. He grew up near Hudson Bay, SK, just a...
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