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.
Originally published, Monday, March 1 2010
It’s been a long and intense time since I wrote here last. To return to this space now feels right, however. Also the Olympics at last are over!
Since I’m reading a lot of fiction these days, I’m going to write about that..: Yes, I’m writing my own fiction too, but [...]
Originally published, Monday, December 21, 2009
Here’s a link to a blog by Sandra in Scotland. A friend of mine gave her a copy of “The English Stories,” and here’s her take on the book. Thank you Sandra!
Such an unexpected arrival of enthusiasm, insight, praise –it’s wonderful. A Christmas present!
http://apps.blissfultimes.ca/blog/?e=41392&d=12/13/2009&s=No%20Hope%20Heart%20Attacks%2FThe%20English%20Stories#comment
Originally published, Sunday, November 29, 2009
Transition quite recently became a verb.
Parent has been one for a while.
Concerning used to be a preposition but sometime in the last 18 months or so
it turned into an adjective.
These changes make me feel as if the floor is tilting, though not as steeply
as some of the grammatical and idiomatic [...]