a delible mind

Friday night, I got to meet David Hilliard who was in town for an event Wayde’s group organized with Meegan Maultsaid for the Vancouver East Cultural Centre. So inspiring. Last night, he joked that everybody was an activist these days; but we weren’t activists, he said (speaking of the Black Panther Party), we were organizers. [...]

I’ve just been replaying an interview I did with Betsy Warland in January about writing spaces and the materials of writing (going to start transcribing it next week). She’s just finished a collection of essays on the subject, and one of the ways in which she formulates her writing space is as a heightening of [...]

I’m just putting in the last edits on the new novel, Delible (uh, again), which I’ve been working on forever, or so it seems (of course, abandoning a few 200 page drafts and beginning from scratch is an integral part of the process, which is why it takes me so long). The thinking began in [...]