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The Griffin Prize Q&A: Ian Williams
Ian Williams talks to the National Post’s Mark Medley about the first poem he ever published, Poetry In Voice, and “showing up to a costume party where everyone was dressed as a robot.” (Well, sort of.) Read the interview and Ian’s poem “He will tell me later the story of the woman he has been alluding to all day” here.
The Prairie Fire Review of Books reviews Every Wolf’s Howl by Barry Grills
“Whereas Laferrière provides a personal take on a planetary event, Barry Grills tells an intimate story. Yet, Every Wolf’s Howl, his memoir of a time when he lost everything but gained an unlikely friend, is told against a backdrop of big issues: keeping one’s pride in the face of poverty, creating a way to live in civilized society, and what can be learned from expected sources.” Read the review.
The Prairie Fire Review of Books reviews Not Anyone’s Anything by Ian Williams
“Williams’s method is experimental, both in the ways these complex stories interconnect and in the manner in which the elements of narrative and their props are concretely represented on the page. For instance, in the title story, Korean/English flash cards are physically represented with their translations as two-dimensional boxes, and in the story “Prelude,” musical notations underscore the narration. In “Break-in,” a horizontal line across the page separates the dual narratives without subordinating the subplot to the plot, and in “Join” the two parallel stories are divided by a sometimes broken vertical line down the centre of the page.” Read the review.
The Calgary Herald talks to Ali Bryan
Ali Bryan talks to the Calgary Herald about “mommy blogs,” working with Paul Quarrington, and what her mother-in-law thinks of her debut novel, Roost. Read the article.
Change of Venue for paulo da costa’s Calgary Launch
paulo da costa will be launching his new book, The Green and Purple Skin of the World, in Calgary on Thursday, April 25. The venue has been changed to the Royal Canadian Legion Kensington, 1910 Kensington Road NW. Doors open at 6pm and the festivities kick off at 7pm. See all the details on facebook!
The National Post reviews Roost
Sue Sinclair reviews Roost by Ali Bryan in the National Post: “Roost is hilarious… Ali Bryan is a master of deadpan delivery and is a seemingly endless source of deft one-liners… The mixture of comedy and grief is powerful.” Read the review.
Ian Williams talks to the Oakville News
Ian Williams, a full-time faculty member at Sheridan, talks to the Oakville News about being shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize for Personals. The Oakville paper says: “Far from the old-school ‘how-do-I-love-thee-let-me-count-the ways’ genre, Williams’ work has a distinctly edgy and modern appeal.” Read the article.
Ian Williams shortlisted for Griffin Poetry Prize
We are absolutely delighted to announce that Ian Williams’ Personals is on the Canadian shortlist for the 2013 Griffin Poetry Prize! He is shortlisted alongside David W. McFadden (What’s the Score, Mansfield Press) and James Pollock (Sailing to Babylon, Able Muse Press).
The international shortlist is made up of Fady Joudah (translation of Ghassan Zaqtan’s Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me, Yale University Press), Jennifer Maiden (Liquid Nitrogen, Giramondo Publishing), Alan Shapiro (Night of the Republic, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), and Brenda Shaughnessy (Our Andromeda, Copper Canyon Press).
The full shortlist announcement can be found here. Congratulations to Ian and all the finalists!
Ali Bryan in the Toronto Star
Ali Bryan and Roost are included in a roundup of noteworthy new books by women authors. About Ali, the Star says: ”The author, in real life a fitness trainer and mother of three, is an amusing writer who has mastered the voice of the self-deprecating female, amusing without being annoying.” Read more here.
Ali Bryan on Salty Ink’s Pitch and Plug
Ali Bryan chats with Chad Pelley about typing with one finger, Stompin’ Tom Connors, binge eating Hobbit-themed pancakes, and about when “the chaos gets more colourful.” Read it all here.
Steven W. Beattie reviews paulo da costa's The Green and Purple Skin of the World for the National Post. [more]
FPTV Canada talks to paulo da costa and Ali Bryan at the Freehand Spring Bash in Toronto. [more]
Ali Bryan chats with the Sackville Tribune-Post. [more]
paulo da costa takes the Vancouver Writers Fest's "Writers on Reading" questionnaire. [more]
paulo da costa on OMNI TV. [more]
Ian Williams takes the Magic 8. [more]
May 28, 2013 Ali Bryan and the FictionKNITstas are in Calgary. [more]
May 29, 2013 Ali Bryan and the FictionKNITstas are in Edmonton. [more]
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