a delible mind

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.

Matrix Magazine is now accepting submissions for its dossier on the new Vancouver. The City as work-in-progress or postcard-perfect; city of cranes (the building kind) and herons (the flying kind); the Terminal City or the Gateway to the Pacific; home to the Downtown Eastside and the 2010 Olympics; it is a city of competing imaginations [...]

Matrix Presents Issue 80: The Gallows Humour Issue Matrix magazine is now accepting submissions for its Gallows Humour dossier. We are looking for your darkest, most absurd and sardonic, witty, acerbic, ironic and sarcastic unpublished writing. Edited by Mike Spry. Poetry: (3-5 poems). Fiction: (3500 words max.). Deadline: April 11th, 2008. Electronic Submissions Preferred: spry@matrixmagazine.org [...]

The latest Matrix is at press now, with poems by Stuart Ross, fiction by Sarah Steinberg, and a special section, the New Underground, with writing by some of the best emerging writers (glad to see an excerpt of Jenny Sampirisi’s forthcoming novel, Iswas, included there). In this issue, there’s also my piece on writing spaces [...]

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 We are looking for the best unpublished writers in Canada for our 79th issue.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 [...]

matrix magazine CURRENT CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: The Narrative “I”: Autobiography in Film and Fiction edited by Taien Ng-Chan How does film and fiction fit into your life? From lurid confessionals, diary entries, screenplays and first-person accounts of historical moments (real and unreal), from the poetic to the absurd, any genre, any medium from page to [...]

So, the latest issue has a new look and so, now, does the website, which finally has its own space at matrixmagazine.org. (The piece I wrote for Rob, part of the tribute to him, has moved too). And for anyone in the Vancouver area, I’ll be reading this Thursday in the Open Text Reading Series [...]

The latest issue of Matrix is out, a tribute to Rob Allen, who died on November 3rd, last year. The cover is a picture of Rob when he was small. At his sister’s, a week after he was gone, we all gathered and in her bedroom, she’d put on old home movies of when they [...]