Interview at the Malahat Review
Wednesday, December 5th, 2012
It’s Open Season at the Malahat Review, and I’m honoured to be judging the Creative Nonfiction entries. See my interview here.
Proved on the Pulses: On the Essay and its Literary Cousins
Archive for the ‘Contests’ Category
CBC Canada Writes: Literary Nonfiction
Thursday, June 28th, 2012
I had the honour of acting as a reader for this year’s CBC Creative Nonfiction contest. Here’s my Q and A.
Interview at The New Quarterly: Confessions of a Library Book Thief
Wednesday, March 9th, 2011
Hardworking Melissa Krone of The New Quarterly must have thought I was the rudest writer on their rosters; she kept sending emails asking to interview me and I kept “ignoring” her. The culprit was my spam filter. But at last we connected, and she’s posted an interview we did at The Literary Type and on The New Quarterly’s website. Thanks, Melissa, for your thought-provoking questions and for the opportunity to share my thoughts.
There’s still time to enter The New Quarterly’s annual contests: details on their site.
Publication in The Utne Reader
Tuesday, March 1st, 2011
I’m delighted to say that an excerpt of my essay “Library Haunting” appears in the March/April edition of The Utne Reader. It appeared originally in The New Quarterly, where it won second place in the Edna Staebler Contest for the Personal Essay last year. Which reminds me: Enter soon! Details are available on The New Quarterly’s website; the deadline is March 28th.
The editors at The Utne Reader were wonderful to work with. Brad Zellar’s sensitive and respectful incisions are hardly noticeable. It’s an honour (or should I say honor?) to appear in this publication, which prides itself on selecting the best from the alternative presses.
They also picked up a piece by Laurie Block that originally appeared in Prairie Fire. Hooray for Canada’s “little” magazines.
