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May 21, 2009
El Numero Uno
No heavy stuff today. No sah!Sky too clear, sun too warm, and, just now, it’s too lazy, snoozy, comfortable, with a wee bit of wind, dog barking in the distance, as if, were time to fall asleep and ...
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February 26, 2016Writing Hangovers Are Denim on Denim: Part 2 of Four New Writers to Watch
I posted the first half of my interview with four exciting writers-to-watch, Noor Naga, Sofia Mostaghimi, Kristel Jax, and Faith Arkorful, earlier today. We talked about writing into dark places, what ...
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May 01, 2014Residential Zoning: Comics, Poutine, and the Publishing Ecosystem
Here's hoping you don't learn anything about me this May.My name is Evan Munday, and if you've heard of me at all, it was probably through my past publicity work at venerable Canadian indie press Coach ...
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November 16, 2017
Noir at the Bar!
We're moving from poetic noir to an evening of Noir at the Bar! Philadelphia, New York, Los Angeles, Glasgow, St Louis, New Hope, Albany, New Jersey, Portland, Baltimore, Vancouver – and Toronto! And ...
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April 07, 2023I Just Got Published - So, Why Don't I Feel Great?
When I was 18, I resolved to be a published writer one day. It was something I’d dreamed of even before then. As a younger teenager I wrote simple books inspired in varying degrees by The Outsiders. ...
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June 04, 2021Book Therapy: Care Of
“I never set out to be a queer author. I really didn’t. I just loved writing and especially telling stories. I know now in retrospect that I was feeding and watering a vast and hollow space inside ...
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November 22, 2017
Literary noir – a look behind the scenes
Tonight we are joined by Kevin Hardcastle, award-winning author of the collection of short stories, Debris, and the recently released, highly-acclaimed novel, In the Cage (both Biblioasis).I loved Debris – ...
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November 14, 2017
Onwards, to poetic noir
This evening we move from noir horror to poetic noir and we are chatting with tremendously talented Catherine Graham. Catherine is Winner of IFOA’s Poetry NOW, the author of six poetry collections ...
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June 21, 2017Meritocracy in a Pale World
Inevitably, I find myself having this conversation:“Why does there always have to be preference or segregation? We should all be judged together and that the best literature will naturally rise to the ...
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January 02, 2017Happy New Year Everybody!
Hello wayfarers of the Word!Thanks so much to the OpenBook team for having me as the writer-in-residence for this month. I'm looking forward to it!I've taken the prompt to get creative with my blogs during ...
