June 26, 2010
The New Quarterly’s summer issue, due out in August 2010, will include a new story of mine titled “One Two Three Two One.” Or else it’s ” i 2 3 2 1.” As you like it. . . .
The story’s about a woman who finds her true love late, after mistaking a couple of others for entities she’s interested in.
Put more simply, Ellen’s not cut out to be a mother. Who does that cutting? I don’t know.
I’m glad to be published in The New Quarterly. If you aren’t familiar with it, take a look at their spring 2010 issue, focussed on an amazing collection of Lists with Diane Schoemperlen as guest ed.
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subTerrain’s special double issue #54-55, “Vancouver’s Literary Landscape,” will be launched at a gathering on Thursday 15 April, at Cafe Montmartre at 4362 Main Street, from 7 – 10 pm.
There will be readings and such. The issue features quite an eclectic mix of writers, so it should be an entertaining event.
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Another recent publication is in the Winter/Spring 2010 issue of WordWorks, the newsletter of the Fed of BC Writers. It’s a 3-page interview with poet Lynda Grace Philippsen, who reviewed English Stories in the Globe online in June 2009. Rather than using a standard structure of Bio, Works, Quotes, and Comments, Lynda has woven all together. The integrated effect is smooth and easy to read.
In recent years I’ve been interviewed several times by young feminist academics writing the history of the women’s movement in BC/Canada. That’s disconcerting — now I am history? all that we did is history? But it’s energizing to be with scholars for whom those past days are so interesting, in a new way, and similarly it was a pleasure though a tad disconcerting to be with Lynda and to answer her questions.
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After a long gap, this blog starts up once more with some good news.
A special double issue of subTerrain (Nos 54-55), titled “Vancouver’ s Literary Landscape,” includes a two-page spread on my work. It focuses on my novel Making A Stone Of The Heart, including an excerpt, but also comments at some length on English Stories. The critique is highly favourable throughout, and to my pleasure is by Bart Campbell. In 2002 we were both finalists for the City of Vancouver Book Prize, I for Making A Stone and he for a fine and unique book called The Door Is Open (Anvil Press), about his work at a soup kitchen in the Downtown East Side. (The award went to Stolo: A Coast Salish Historical Atlas, from D & M.
This special issue of subTerrain, like most such, will annoy as much as it pleases. Why is X here? Why on earth isn’t Y here? Etc. I was surprised that so many writers of roughly my generation appeared — seemed like rather a shortage of young people — but reasonably okay with the numbers of women represented. And the feeling, the ambiance of Vancouver did come through intensely.
Another recent appearance, in WordWorks, I’ll address soon.
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