Category: News
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New work in EVENT and ‘Friend. Follow. Text.’
The new issue of EVENT has just been released and I have a couple prose poems in the issue, alongside work by writers such as George Bowering, Gregory Betts and S. Kennedy Sobol. The issue’s full line-up is here. I posted a while ago about the anthology Friend. Follow. Text. edited by Shawn Syms. My story…
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Stories Like Birds
The lit blog Lemon Hound, edited by Sina Queyras, has just released an excellent fiction and prose folio, which includes writers such as Etgar Keret and Lydia Davis. I’m glad to have contributed a piece, “Stories Like Birds,” and you can read it here. I’ll be reading this Thursday evening at Emily Carr University with…
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Three June readings
A quick update on three Vancouver readings I have coming up in June: Thursday June 13th with Tom Cho This Thursday I’m reading with Australian fiction writer Tom Cho. The Facebook event listing is here. I’ve heard amazing things about Tom Cho’s book Look Who’s Morphing and am excited he’s doing a reading here. Doors at…
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It’s been a while…some readings
A few new things. I’ve been coordinating a project called the Art Cart for Gallery Gachet in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. The Art Cart is a hand-pulled or bike-towed mobile sales shop or art gallery or workshop space (it folds out into a table!). This Sunday we’re presenting an outdoor poetry reading at the Downtown Eastside…
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Readings coming up + fiction folio
The Capilano Review put out a narrative issue recently. It’s a mix of different kinds of narrative (both prose and poetry) work happening in Canada, including visual work and a great interview by Susan Holbrook with Nicole Brossard. They’ve put out an online folio this week that includes responses by contributors to work in the…
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People Who Disappear up for a Lambda Award
A couple days ago I found out that my book People Who Disappear is up for a Lambda Award in the LGBT Debut Fiction category. This is so exciting as the books nominated are from all over North America. You can see all the nominees here. Thanks to my press, Freehand Books, for all their…
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Review of People Who Disappear on The Coastal Spectator
Thanks to Miles Steyn for his review of my collection of stories People Who Disappear over on The Coastal Spectator. You can read the review here. “Once you find a rhythm to Leslie’s prose—paying closer attention to the human drama of the stories rather than plot—her tonally and textually rich writing will clasp your attention…
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Some work out soon: I’m working on a long series of prose poems, Vancouver For Beginners, and some of these pieces are starting to find homes. A couple are in The Capilano Review‘s winter issue, which is launching this Friday at VIVO in Vancouver. It’s the narrative issue and full of incredible prose writers and…
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Narrative Panel with Bhanu Kapil — February 15th
I’ve fallen off the wagon in terms of posting my readings here, but there’s one coming up. On February 15th I will be reading a piece about Bhanu Kapil’s work at Capilano University. Ashok Mathur and Gail Scott — amazing and humbling company — will also be responding to Kapil’s work and then (I think)…
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