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A conversation about conversation
If conversation is the foundation of social interaction, why is it often frustrating and unsatisfying? For the amount of time we spend talking, you’d think we’d all be experts be the age of six. While we try to educate ourselves with the written word, and entertain ourselves with the script, a conversation is something else, evolving unpredictably in real time. Over the course of a thirty-year friendship, Wayne Jones and I have identified two categories of talkers. The first is Type A, those who express curiosity and take turns when [...]
High kicks in the bathroom with Richard Kelly Kemick
Photo credit: Michelle Fleming, skylightimages.com Richard Kelly Kemick's poetry and prose have been published in magazines and journals [...]
The inappropriately modest Traci Skuce
Photo Credit: Crystal Chowdroy Traci Skuce lives in Cumberland, BC. Her work has appeared in The New Quarterly, [...]
Disturbing numbers from the small press world
On June 11, 2015, I submitted twelve queries for my collection of short stories titled No Call Too Small. Seven [...]
Nadine McInnis and the attack of the cry bullies
Nadine McInnis is the author of nine books of poetry, short fiction and literary criticism. She has twice been awarded [...]
Stephanie Yorke, Thom Yorke, and a bunch of muttonheads
Stephanie Yorke is a poet, fiction writer, and librettist. She has published her work in Canada and in other countries. [...]
The Gatekeeper Function
When I was invited to contribute to The Malahat Review's Publishing Tips guest column, I chose to write about the [...]
Galloway is now a verb
For those who haven't been following the latest Canlit scandal, I'll see if I can summarize this in one paragraph. [...]
Yes or no to creative writing school?
Should you go to creative writing school to learn how to write? Digging into Antanas Sileika's study on Who Publishes [...]
Who Publishes When
In 2010 I received an email from Antanas Sileika, a novelist and the director of the Humber School for Writers. [...]
Elizabeth Philips, poet, novelist, editor, (and finalist!)
Elizabeth Philips is the author of four books of poetry, most recently, A Blue with Blood in it (Coteau Books: [...]
My story is perfect and your comments are stupid
If I ever feel that my story is perfect and the editor's comments are stupid, I'll know I have arrived [...]
Simultaneous submissions
Considering long turn-around times at literary journals, and my life expectancy of 80.2 years, I've taken to simultaneous submissions as [...]