Category: News
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The BLACKOUT’s closing ceremonies and three poems
During the Olympics poet Elizabeth Bachinsky and I have conducted a public art project called BLACKOUT AT THE CANDAHAR, asking members of the public to black out sections of Olympics coverage to create erasure poems. We have collected over 300 hilarious, confrontational and/or elliptical refractive miniatures of the media overwhelm that is and was the…
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Vancouver writers during the Olympics
During the Olympics, the Real Vancouver Writers’ and Culture Series will be happening at the W2 Perel Gallery (112 W Hastings) every Wednesday in February at 7 PM. The complete lineups can be read here. I’ll be reading Wednesday Feb 24th, with writers including Haida artist Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, Steven Galloway, Leilah Nadir, Caroline Adderson,…
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Collaboration at The Candahar
I’m collaborating with Vancouver poet Elizabeth Bachinsky on BLACKOUT AT THE CANDAHAR, a site-specific collaborative installation at The Candahar, an arts salon happening on Granville Island during the Vancouver Cultural Olympiad (click here for event details) in conjunction with the 2010 Olympics. We will be inviting you to black out sections of Olympics coverage &…
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Best of the decade?
Poet Ray Hsu asked me to co-author a guest post for Sina Queyras‘s eclectic poetics blog Lemon Hound; our post critiques the Best Canadian Novel of the Decade lists that abounded in December. Our response, which scrambles the language of the National Post’s and Macleans’s original lists, can be read here. A conversation around the…
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First Joyland reading in Vancouver
I organized the first Joyland reading in Vancouver. A crowd turned out for readings by Michael Turner (“8×10”), Rhonda Waterfall (“The Only Thing You Have”), Rachel Knudsen (fiction editor of PRISM international) and myself. Much thanks to W2; their Perel Gallery was a great venue.
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Another QHP interview
More interviewing for the Queer History Project: my recent interview with MLA Spencer Herbert can be listened to here.
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Stories in two Fall anthologies
Look for “Wire Boy” (previously published in Descant) in 09: Best Canadian Stories. And Coming Attractions 09, edited by Mark Anthony Jarman, will include three of my stories: “Ghost Stories” (previously published in The Fiddlehead), “Preservation,” and “Swimmers.” Both to be released by Oberon Press this Fall. Coming Attractions is an annual showcase of three…
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New work in Event
My story “The Bodies of Others” — about rage in an elementary school classroom after 12 year-old Laura traces classmate Carolyn’s body onto a piece of paper — will appear in Event in 2009/10. In the meantime, my essay “Taking Shelter” can be read in their current issue.
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Short story on Joyland.ca – “Swimmers”
My short story “Swimmers” — about a bond between nocturnal clubbers — is on the Vancouver page of the online short story project Joyland. “Swimmers” will also be included in Coming Attractions 09 edited by Mark Anthony Jarman, to be released by Oberon Press this Fall. Read “Swimmers” here.
Alex Leslie 