What is Faith to you? How do you think about it? How do you put it into words–to tell someone else what it means to you? Does it only appear when you are going through struggles? Is it constant like gravity? I like this photograph by Grigory Kravchenko. The woman looks up, but it looks [...]
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Writing Your Faith: Workshop offered in January at the United Church 1 comment
Ten Ways To (Seriously) Improve Your Writing (via Broadside) 1 comment
An awesome post for writers who are at any stage in the game–but especially those who want to take it seriously. Her advice for dealing with rejection, listening to feedback, and doing things to improve yourself, really ring true to me. Maybe they will for you too. It’s commonly said, (among writers who do it [...]
Tesseracts 15: Young Adult Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror 3 comments
Tesseracts 15 is open for submissions with a call for young adult science fiction, fantasy and horror. NOVEMBER 30 is the deadline. Below is the call. NOW OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS (Calgary, Alberta) EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing is delighted to announce that Tesseracts Fifteen: A Case of Quite Curious Tales, is now [...]
Inhuman anthology includes Whitehorse writer, Dave Strachan 1 comment
You might recognize Dave Strachan as the guy who helps you with your Arctic Cat snowmobile needs at Listers Motorsports (that is not him on the cover of the book there). I know Dave more as a science fiction writer and friend. I’m THRILLED to say that Dave made it into the Inhuman anthology put [...]
Harry Potter Diary: Outside the Demographic Looking Inside Hogwarts 2 comments
I decided to read the Harry Potter Series this summer, for the first time. After 10 billion people were happily served by the boy wizard and his pals, after the series was put to rest by JK Rowling years ago, and just as the film franchise explodes to a close, I decided to read the [...]
“The Song of Sasquatch” up at Joyland 2 comments
“The Song of Sasquatch,”my poem/story of bigfoot romance in the style of Song of Solomon, is up at Joyland: a hub for short fiction. Joyland is unique as an online fiction magazine. It has editors associated with a certain geographical place and all the stories come from writers associated with that place. Occasionally, editor Kevin [...]
Flash Fiction Challenge: Inhuman 2 comments
INHUMAN: Absolute Xpress, owned by Edge Books (the makers and owners of the Tesseracts series of science fiction and fantasy anthologies), have announced their fourth flash fiction challenge: 1000 words on what humans are like from a non-earth based, non-human perspective. The title of the anthology is called “Inhuman” and details are here In their words: [...]
Is There No Wonder in Wonderland? A Review of Burton’s Alice in Wonderland 4 comments
What do you want when you get down the rabbit hole? Burton begs this question in his version of Alice in Wonderland. Folks will probably enjoy the visuals–they are delightful to watch. But in this age of CGI, there’s not as much fanfare left for special effects. It’s coming down quickly to who tells a [...]
Morgan Whibley Shot Me in the Alley and All I Could Say Was This: An Essay on Writing Genre 2 comments
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 [...]
“One Nation Under Gods” finds home in Tesseracts 14 4 comments
My story, “One Nation Under Gods,” was selected to be part of the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy anthology, Tesseracts 14, edited by Brett Savory and John Robert Colombo, due out in September 2010. The Tesseracts series is devoted to Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy and Horror, and has had, as you might have guessed, [...]
