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Cut Road by Brent van Staalduinen
Here's another in a series of posts highlighting former Media Whore guests with recently published books. Previous interviews with Brent can be found here and here. Maybe it's peevish, but I think Brent owes all the laggards and procrastinators of this world an explanation. While the rest of us have been moaning and bitching and squirreling our days away, Brent has been blasting CanLit with shockwaves of creative energy from his underground writing cave (castle? club house? garret?) in Hamilton. Any writer publishing a book every couple of years could [...]
Checks and cheques
Payment for "Tickles the Clown" was $250.00. That works out to about seven cents a word, or $8.33 an hour, based [...]
Elsie K. Neufeld and Half in the Sun: Anthology of Mennonite Writing (Ronsdale Press, 2006)
The daughter of Russian Mennonite immigrants, Elsie K. Neufeld has written two non-fiction books: Dancing in the Dark: A Sister Grieves [...]
Tickles the Clown
Today I received three contributor's copies of Grain Vol. 43.3, the issue in which my latest story appears. The story [...]
Dark
Once upon a time, most of an editorial board rejected one of my stories because it was "too dark" for [...]
The em dash and other heartbreaking compromises
A few years ago, an editor at a literary journal wanted me to change the way I indicated direct speech. [...]
Efficient Submission
With response times varying from two months to a year, and averaging three or four months, efficient submission of stories [...]
Patricia Webb and The Writer’s Studio at SFU
Patricia Webb is a writer, poet, and artist, who lives in Port Moody with her husband, artist Peter Hilborne. She [...]
Sajeeta Saroop and branding
Sajeeta Saroop is a creative and strategic communications leader with over twenty years experience working with companies such as TransLink, [...]
rob mclennan and Facebook
Photo credit: Stephen Brockwell I'll let Cameron Anstee's excellent blog post serve as a bio. Note the lengthy [...]
Another sad little cheque
The other sad little cheque I receive every year (other than Public Lending Right) comes from Access Copyright. Payment varies, [...]
A sad little cheque
Every year I get a sad little cheque for being a writer. The cheque would be much larger if I [...]
John Aitken didn’t say a word till he was 17
John Aitken is a physical actor, carver, filmmaker, photographer and educator. John’s mixed ancestry includes Coast Salish and Scottish. He [...]