This time to Saskatoon! Savvy Canlitmag ((How’s that for an abbreviation?)) readers will instantly be able to guess the publication, but I hesitate to mention it due to vague superstitions and the fact that there is, of course, the possibility that the poems will be rejected and I will fret to myself if only I hadn’t mentioned […]
I’m at work on a short story I first started about six months ago. After a few initial re-writes around that time it’s been sitting abandoned in a folder, though not forgotten. Today was the first time I’d re-read it in full since that time. It’s better than I remember it, though not as good as I
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I mailed out another submission this afternoon; a short story to a Canadian magazine I recently discovered and enjoy. I wrote the first draft of the story a few months ago and have been tinkering with it incessantly for the past few weeks. It’s been driving me mad, but I think it’s ok. I hope so, anyway. It’s
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I submitted a few poems today to one of my favourite literary journals. I had a few poems rejected last year for inclusion in an anthology, one of which was reworked and mailed today, hopefully better than it was before. It’s been a long time since I’ve submitted something. Though I’ve been writing more than ever, I’ve
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Mes amis, I have adopted a lovely word in attempts to save it from extinction. The word I adopted is vampirarchy, which refers to a set of ruling persons comparable to vampires. ((Is this a favourable association or not? I can’t tell.)) It is now my solemn duty to “use this word as frequently as possible from
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I read a fair bit. Perhaps not as much as Sarah Weinman, but she’s a professional reviewer with the luxury to spend all her time reading, and by day I serve as a senior business analyst. Still, I do ok. Inspired by Weinmen, and a few friends who track what they read, for the first time in
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