With a new month around the corner, it's time to highlight a few publishing deadlines that are fast approaching. As usual, the parameters are short fiction, creative non-fiction, and poetry based in Canada (sometimes, but not necessarily, restricted to Canadian citizens and residents.) Dollar values are in loonies. Click on the links for full and … Continue reading Looking Ahead to March
Q&A with Deborah Willis
This Thursday, February 13 will be our Writing Intimacy Workshop with MacEwan writer-in-residence, Deborah Willis. With that in mind, we asked Deborah a few questions about the challenge of adding intimacy into our writing. BTC: What is it about intimacy/sex that makes it difficult or uncomfortable for many of us to write about? DW: We … Continue reading Q&A with Deborah Willis
YEG LIT: February Events
The city's in the middle of a deep freeze. For many of us northerners, merely getting out of a warm bed on a chilly Sunday can be rather aggravating. But for those who are willing to brave the cold, a new month means plenty of new and fun events to look forward to. Here are … Continue reading YEG LIT: February Events
Deadlines Round-up: February 2018
Here is a brief and by-no-means exhaustive summary of some upcoming short fiction and poetry publishing and contest deadlines in Canada. Click on the links for full and exact details. January 31 Geist 14th Annual Postcard Story contest Specs: A flash story, up to 500 words, with a related postcard picture (images from Wikimedia Commons … Continue reading Deadlines Round-up: February 2018
A Hockey Reading List
The Bolo Tie Collective has been pretty busy these last few weeks with submissions and acquisitions for Volume 3 of our anthology. In the midst of all this hard work, it seems like a good time for another reading list, one focused on the here and now. With it being midwinter and just over the halfway point … Continue reading A Hockey Reading List
YEG LIT: JANUARY EVENTS
Here we are. A whole new year has started, with all the requisite hope and resolutions to be awesome at everything. For some of you, that maybe means being more literary and creative. With that in mind, we start off 2018 with a rundown of some upcoming literary in Edmonton. Jan. 9: 6:30 pm, The … Continue reading YEG LIT: JANUARY EVENTS
A Christmas Reading List
For many of us the festive season offers a little more time than usual to get comfortable with a good book. With that in mind, we've put together a reading list of Christmas-y books to give you some inspiration for your own Christmas reading list. Christmas: A Biography, Judith Flanders This newly published non-fiction book … Continue reading A Christmas Reading List
Short Edition Comes to YEG
https://twitter.com/FlyEIA/status/938465702251347973 Something cool and literary happened this week in sunny Edmonton. French publisher Short Edition now has a presence in our airport. For the uninitiated, Short Edition publishes flash fiction for the masses, both on its website and in story dispensers like the one above, which now graces YEG's domestic terminal near the living wall. … Continue reading Short Edition Comes to YEG
YEG LIT: December Events
The year is winding down and party season is almost underway. December's a great time to get out and see what this city has to offer, literarily [ed. note: possibly not a real word]. Here then are a few upcoming events to save the date (or a couple of hours) for: Dec. 7: 7 pm, … Continue reading YEG LIT: December Events
It’s Royal Bison Time Again
Just a short post this week to remind everyone about Royal Bison, Holiday 2017 edition, which is running this weekend and next. We're a little late to the party this weekend (thanks, splitting headache), but the biannual art and craft fair will be back next Friday to Sunday with plenty of awesome stuff made by … Continue reading It’s Royal Bison Time Again
