a delible mind

MATRIX MAGAZINE presents…Issue 79: THE NEW UNDERGROUND. We are looking for the best unpublished writers in Canada for our 79th issue. We are looking for innovative short fiction and poetry by young or emerging writers. Eligible applicants include Canadian citizens who have NOT published a trade book. People who have published chapbooks or have been [...]

Tonight, Louis Rastelli launches his new novel A Fine Ending (Insomniac Press, 2007). Louis has been doing amazing cultural work out of Montreal for many many years (distroboto, Expozine, Fish Piss). Last spring, Jon Paul Fiorentino (who was the editor of my novel Delible) suggested that we trade off on the fiction imprint he had [...]

The shortline reading series kicks off this Monday October 22nd at 6:30 p.m. at the Railway Club. With readings by Anne Stone Matt Hogan Rhoda Hodjati Rita Wong Garry Morse Donato Mancini I’m excited to read with such a stellar line up, including my old student Matt Hogan, whose non-fiction can be seen in recent [...]

  Please join us for the launch of … West Coast Line 53 Representations of Murdered and Missing Women Edited by Anne Stone and Amber Dean With presentations or readings by Reg Johanson, Larissa Lai, Sachiko Murakami, Lora McElhinney, Renee Rodin, and others… Tuesday, October 23rd at 7pm Spartacus Books 319 West Hastings, 2nd Floor [...]

Stephen Henighan has a piece in Geist about Rob Allen, his one-time teacher, my good friend. The direction of the piece is pretty much apparent in the title, “Traitor’s Dirge,” and byline (Henighan’s name has been made less for his literary fiction than for the way, in short essay style, he strafes Can Lit’s no-fly [...]