Not long after moving to Montreal in 2006, I joined the Quebec Writers’ Federation. Since then, I have taken several workshops, attended many events and the annual awards gala, and generally found a great community of writers for support and inspiration. Most recently, I was thrilled to be accepted into the QWF’s 2013 Mentorship [...]
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I’m honoured that echoic mimic has made the 2012 ReLit Longlist. Congrats to all the writers who made the list. I’ve found several books to add to my “to read” list! Can we extend summer so I can have a few weeks off just to read in the sun?
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A bit of book-related news: echoic mimic has been nominated for an Expozine Alternative Press Award in the “Best English Book” category! The award winners will be announced on Wednesday, April 4th during an awards gala at Divan Orange in Montreal. Here is the full list of nominees for Best English Book: Food & Trembling, [...]
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A few pages in to Jeanette Winterson’s memoir, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?, I started highlighting quote-worthy passages (that’s one thing I like about eBooks – you can highlight without feeling guilty about defacing a page). I finished by highlighting a quarter of the book. I went through a Jeanette Winterson phase [...]
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I recently finished reading Francine Prose’s Reading Like A Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and For Those Who Want to Write Them. I was inspired by this quote from an interview with Isaac Babel that she included at the end of the book: I work like a pack mule, but it’s my [...]
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Some of these books might seem like overly obvious choices, especially considering that several won big awards. But when I looked through the list of the books I’d read in 2011, these were the books that I remember truly enjoying the most this year. They were the ones that captivated me in one way or [...]
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We’re going to be on the radio! Readings from the Snare Books and Coach House Kingston Megalaunch will air on Friday, November 10 at 4PM on CFRC 101.9 FM’s “Finding A Voice.” Hear Georgia Webber, Leigh Kotsilidis, Tristan Hughes, Jenny Sampirisi, Pearl Pirie, Sherry Huang, Faith M Mousa, and me! The show will also air [...]
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After our Montreal launch on Sunday, I’ll be in Kingston on Monday, October 3rd to read from echoic mimic. The show starts at 7PM at The Artel. Queen University’s The Journal wrote about the event (and echoic mimic!) here.
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My dear friend Teri Vlassopoulos said some kind words about echoic mimic on her blog, Bibliographic.
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Ian McGillis wrote about our upcoming launch on the Montreal Gazette literary blog.
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