November 2012

Broken Pencil’s Indie Writers’ Deathmatch 2013

From Broken Pencil‘s website: Since 2008, Broken Pencil: the magazine of zine culture and the independent arts, has been running one of the world’s most audacious short story contests. In the Indie Writers’ Deathmatch, the top eight submitted stories as selected by Broken Pencil are pitted against each other two by two. Each week, two stories will […]

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Suburbs, porn, contraception, geeks, and a pink lake

Ah, the smell of leaves and awards in the air…Yup, still fall. The winners of this year’s Governor General’s Literary Awards have been announced, and congratulations are due to Linda Spalding for English Fiction (The Purchase) and Julie Bruck for English Poetry (Monkey Ranch). There are numerous other categories of winners for works in both English and

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Dance Break: Fine in a minute

Amanda Palmer & The Grand Theft Orchestra, “Do it with a Rock Star,” from Theatre is Evil. Last night I attended a concert at the Phoenix with Amanda Palmer & The Grand Theft Orchestra, featuring a solo performance from Jherek Bischoff (I bought the CD, Composed, he was awesome) and The Simple Pleasure. I know a lot

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Literary bars, hedgehogs, horses, dolphins, and William Shatner

Congratulations to Tamas Dobozy who won the Writers’ Trust prize for fiction for Siege 13, and to Alex Pugsley, who won the Journey Prize for “Crisis on Earth X,” published in The Dalhousie Review. Chad Pelley has more on the winners on Salty Ink, and Lynn Coady offer’s a juror’s perspective on Open Book Ontario. John Barber’s

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Shelf Life: October 2012

I have an absurd number of books on my to-read shelf. These are books that I’ve bought, and physically have on my shelves, waiting to be read. I don’t know how I’m ever going to catch up, especially with all the neat books that have come out this fall, and the classics I have yet to read.

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