Category: News
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Update on failure and other stuff
My online photo/fiction series I Know How Small A Story Can Be (scroll down) will resume in a few days. A few people have asked if I’ve stopped the series and I haven’t. This will happen. I blame the sun. In the meantime, a couple things have happened that I thought I’d post here. The Queer issue…
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Public service announcement
I’m editing the fiction part. Complete guidelines are here. Photographer and poet Nikki Reimer is editing the poetry part. We welcome visual work, visual poetry, experimental work, hybrid work, so if you have a little monster you can’t find a home for send it our way.
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Manyway poem at Powell Street Festival
I mentioned in a post a little while ago that poet Sachiko Murakami is running the project Henko: A Powell Street Manyway Renga at www.powellstreethenko.ca. You can participate in the poem by going to site and clicking on the + sign under any of the stanzas. At the Powell Street Festival (August 4th and 5th in…
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Hiatus till August + tangled wires of home
Just a note that my series on this blog I Know How Small A Story Can Be will resume at the beginning of August, after I’m back from offline-BC (which is a place). You can read the first five stories below. On Monday I read at the Harrison Festival of the Arts from my book People…
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A couple things: People Who Disappear now available as an eBook + Harrison reading
My book People Who Disappear can now be purchased through the Google bookstore ($13) here. The book will be available soon on Kobo, the ibookstore and Barnes & Noble soon. I’m reading on Monday in Harrison. All info is here. And consider contributing to poet Sachiko Murakami’s online collaborative project ‘HENKO: A POWELL STREET MANYWAY RENGA.‘ To…
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“Stories of the highly invisible among us”
Meredith Quartermain writes about my book People Who Disappear in The Winnipeg Review: “Stories of the highly invisible among us: a young man known only through traces on YouTube, a first nations woman whose skeleton is unearthed by children, a young man suffering from mental illness, scrounging for furniture, communities living in the tops of trees, trying to…
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People Who Disappear on Something Daily + what this blog is for
A friend mentioned to me recently that she follows my blog and that all I seem to do with it is self-promote — post links to my reviews as they come in and plug readings and events in which I’m involved. She said, bluntly, that this gives people no reason to check in on my…
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Companion Animals
I’m guest editing an issue of the Montreal-based online journal The Incongruous Quarterly with poet Nikki Reimer. The theme of our issue is Companion Animals. You can read the full call here. The Incongruous Quarterly publishes fiction and poetry; I’m editing the fiction portion of this issue. I invite fiction that is language-focused, could be accused…
Alex Leslie 