Some stunning work by Morgan Whibley, a Whitehorse based photographer. The Alley Series. (Yes, it was stunning and fun even before I was a subject.) His rules are simple: One alley from sidewalk to sidewalk. Ambient light only. A different person everyday. Seven days a week. He’d been doing this for 43 days in a [...]
Archive for the ‘fantasy writing’ Tag
Morgan Whibley Shot Me in the Alley and All I Could Say Was This: An Essay on Writing Genre 2 comments
Deadline Nov 30 for Tesseracts 14: Canadian Sci-fi and Fantasy Stories 3 comments
A reminder to all those thinking about submitting your short fiction (limit 7500 words) to Tesseracts 14, the latest in the series of anthologies featuring Canadian science fiction and fantasy. It doesn’t have to be about Canada, or about the north. Basically they are anthologies of Canadian writing. (Okay, and a few stray Americans or [...]
Steve Parker, Yukon Author, publishes Skrelsaga Leave a comment
Good friend and Fantasy writer, Steve Parker, known to many of you as the man who holds the downstairs desk at Mac’s Fireweed Bookstore–ordering your books, being pleasant, being Welsh–is the proud author of a new book, Skrelsaga, now available at Mac’s. Here are a few photographs of his signing. This is, [...]
Writing Advice from J.K. Rowling 5 comments
I came across this nugget of writing advice from JK Rowling in an article from the Toronto Star. It’s simple, but important. Of the “universal appeal” of her books, Rowling said, “I’ve been asked that question a lot. I’ve always found it very difficult to answer. I feel there’s an expectation that I should know [...]
The City of Ember: Clever Assignments For Everyone 3 comments
The City of Ember is a great fun family film, full of clever, unlockable mysteries. It comes with a map, all torn up and faded; it comes with a “ticking clock”–the fear that the city will wind up in the dark; and plenty of menacing obstacles. The ending leaves you wishing to be back in [...]
Sita Sings the Blues: a great film we gotta see here 1 comment
I just heard about this animated film that Ebert is raving about. Get this: an animated film based on the Indian epic, The Ramayana, with songs from 1930s singer Annette Hanshaw. The Ramayana tells the story of a great betrayal by a husband and his mother on the husband’s wife. It is one of the [...]
Novelists in the Yukon Leave a comment
Joanna Lilley has written a great article about the novelists in my two classes writing with Nanowrimo. I know there are more Whitehorse participants out there outside my classes too! More power to all the novelists writing!! Nebula of Novelists Take the Nanowrimo Challenge
World Building, Renewed Interest, 9 Novelists to write 9 Novels 2 comments
If you were thinking about signing up for a class in Science Fiction /Fantasy writing this fall, do it next week. The class was officially canceled on Tuesday, as it had only five members, but will be re-instated next week on Wednesday because of renewed interest. We now have nine people–and room for many, many [...]
Rocketfuel Blasts Off, 10 and Rising 1 comment
The fantasy writers of tomorrow are sitting in a high school French Library looking at photographs on a table. Their task is to first pick a photo that appeals to them out of the twenty or thirty scattered there. Then, they have to tell who this person is, what’s happening in the picture, and what [...]
The Fantasy of Beringia, except it’s true 2 comments
I work at the Beringia Centre, where we preserve Yukon history from 14,000-10,000 years ago. The great land mass of Beringia, situated in what is now the Bering Strait, connecting Siberia and Alaska, was our Atlantis–land that flourished for awhile and then sunk beneath the sea. While it was here, it was a huge grassland [...]
