Category: News
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Interview on Canada Arts Connect
I was interviewed this week for the resource & news site Canada Arts Connect by local poet Dina Del Bucchia about my current projects, forthcoming book and the Queer issue of Poetry Is Dead, which I’m guest editing. The interview can be read here.
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Work in Dandelion magazine’s Mapping issue
Dandelion has just released their Mapping issue — a huge undertaking accompanied by a DVD of ‘sound maps’ and ‘sight maps.’ The issue’s Guest Editor is Oana Avasilichioaei. I have two prose + photo pieces in the issue. These pieces are part of my series Twenty Objects For The New World just released as a…
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Chapbook available from Nomados
My chapbook of microfictions, 20 Objects For The New World, is now available from Nomados Press. Copies can be ordered by emailing: info@nomados.org and there will be a launch in early Fall. “A text of “leakage,” a “softwall luminesence” that produces and diminishes its own light. Deep in the “bloodclick,” Alex Leslie’s gorgeous chapbook bonds design…
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‘The Living On This Beach’ in NY’s The Literarian
The Literarian at the Centre For Fiction in New York features a few independent magazines per issue. This issue features Conjunctions (US), Albedo One (Ireland), Ecotone (US) and Branch (Canada). My piece ‘The Living On This Beach,’ originally printed in Branch’s Wild issue, is reprinted in the current issue of The Literarian here. I’m honoured…
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Project Rebuild
Sachiko Murakami’s Project Rebuild is now online. Murakami asked a group of Vancouver writers to “renovate” a poem about Vancouver Specials. You can “move into” the neighbourhood by editing, reformulating or rewriting any of the pieces. My contribution is here.
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Interview on Egale
Poet Adrienne Gruber is running a series of interviews with writers at Egale as part of a resource and online workshop for queer teen writers. My interview can be read here.
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Photo & prose sequence in ‘Wild’ issue of Branch
The new issue of the gorgeously designed online art & writing magazine Branch is now online. This issue’s theme is “Wild” and featured writers include Stephanie Bolster, Garry Thomas Morse and Alexandra Leggat. My prose and photo sequence “The Living On This Beach” is in this issue. I love Branch for their focus on the…
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New work out now & soon
A quick update on work published by online & print mags. My story “The Shake Table” is in the current issue of The New Quarterly. My series of photos and prose poems “The Living On This Beach” will be in the Spring issue of Branch, an online journal that publishes written and visual art by…
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Olympics BLACKOUT poems
During the Olympics I ran the public art project BLACKOUT AT THE CANDAHAR with poet Elizabeth Bachinsky. Over the two weeks of the Games, over 300 members of the public contributed to BLACKOUT by making erasure poems with local newspaper articles about the Olympics and black markers. Experimental poetry meets censorship. Elizabeth and I each…
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Book forthcoming
My collection of short stories, People Who Disappear, will be published by Freehand. Some of the stories in the collection appeared in various literary journals. Thanks to the following: Descant, Prairie Fire, The Fiddlehead, Event, Joyland and Matrix. Thanks also to Oberon Press, specifically the anthologies Best Canadian Stories 09 (ed. John Metcalf) and Coming…
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