Category: News
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“The disappeared don’t simply vanish”
Thank you to Yutaka Dirks for his review of my book People Who Disappear in the activist magazine Briarpatch. “Leslie reminds us of the callous way the present attempts to deny a connection to the past. In Canada, and other countries established through settler colonialism, acknowledging that connection is a necessary pre-condition to accepting responsibility…
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I’ve been tagged: The Next Big Thing interview series
Laurie D Graham, poet and editor of the forthcoming Hidden City issue of Descant, tagged me in this interview series which has been making its way around called The Next Big Thing, in which writers discuss their current/in-progress project. You can read Laurie’s interview here. After my interview below I tag the next five writers…
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Autostraddle reviews our Queer issue
So the Queer issue of Poetry Is Dead that I edited hit newsstands a couple weeks ago and we have our first review! It’s from mega-blog Autostraddle and is written by Sarah Fonseca, a 2012 Lambda Fellow and regular Autostraddle contributor. Obviously, any response to our issue is wonderful to read but this review was particularly…
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Community reading at The Gathering Place this Wednesday
For the past few years I’ve taught for Megaphone‘s community writing program. Megaphone is Vancouver’s street newspaper and focuses largely on issues pertaining to social justice and anti-poverty activism. The community writing program provides workshops in housing projects, drop-in centres and community centres, establishing safe open-access spaces for writing. These are intentional safe spaces for…
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Companion Animals issue of The Incongruous Quarterly now out
I had the pleasure of co-editing the Companion Animals issue of The Incongruous Quarterly, a Montreal-based online literary journal, with poet Nikki Reimer. The issue was released today and you can read it here. I edited the fiction section. Check out the five excellent stories by Craig Calhoun, Sarah Feldbloom, Sean Ulman, Rasiqra Revulva and…
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Megaphone panel tomorrow + QMUNITY workshop + review
A few things: Tomorrow evening at 6 PM in the AGRO Cafe on Granville Island, Megaphone, Vancouver’s street newspaper is having an event as part of the Vancouver Writers Fest. Megaphone runs a community writing program which offers writing workshops in housing projects, drop-in centres and recovery facilities in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside and the West…
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Performing this Sunday Oct 7 + Autostraddle review
Thanks to Malaika at the hugely popular queer blog Autostraddle for her wonderful review today of my book People Who Disappear. You can read the review here. “Her debut is also a love letter to Western Canada, its small towns, eccentric characters and breathtaking wilderness all at risk of being radically transformed, or even destroyed.” And…
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