a delible mind

When I read at SFU on Thursday, Mercedes Eng was there and asked a great question — or made a great point. In distinguishing the earlier (two) novels (jacks and Hush) from the later one (Delible), I’d said something along the lines of how the earlier works had more in common with poems, and in [...]

I’ll be reading up the hill tomorrow: Thursday, October 29, ‘09 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Special Collections, Room 7100 WAC Bennett Library, SFU, 12:30pm to 1:30pm.

Matrix 84 is out now, with a dossier on new Vancouver writing (which I co-edited with Sachiko Murakami).  Our intro: The work collected here reflects some of the ways that the Vancouver writing scene has constituted itself through ties to the visual, to social critique, and to genre-busting.

This afternoon, the eight fiction writers I’m working with at The Writers Studio take the stage at the Vancouver International Writers Festival to launch Emerge, an anthology of writing, along with the other TWS writers.

“Abel de la Rue was hanged at Coulommiers in 1582; he had made a pact with a demon in spaniel’s shape and rendered his male neighbors impotent. In 1591 Léonarde Chastenet was burned alive in Poitou at the age of eighty, after confessing that she had cast spells on corn, been to the Sabbath, and [...]