Since I’m now actually forgetting what other books I’ve read for “fun” in the past year, I’m going to move on to what I read last summer for not exactly fun, but not exactly work: many, many magazines. Now, mostly, reading magazines falls into the category of fun. Lately, my…
Read MorePrairie Fire Press & McNally Robinson Booksellers present: Bliss Carman Poetry Award - Judge: Sylvia Legris Short Fiction - Judge: Marilyn Bowering Creative Non-Fiction - Judge: Lawrence Scanlan. $6,000 in prizes. 1st prize in each category $1,250, 2nd prize $500, 3rd prize $250. Deadline: Postmarked November 30, 2011. Entry fee…
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Read MoreIt’s Magazine Project time again, as CreComm students are well aware. I’m not a CreComm grad, but I did do a very similar magazine project myself over at the Canadian Centre for Studies in Publishing. It’s mostly a blur, but I do remember our magazine was called Travel Canada. I’m…
Read More....yet again. New deadline to register a claim is March 30. Information on the case here. If you haven't heard of the case before, to sum up: In the days after periodical articles started being stored in databases, but before publications started making writers sign far-reaching contracts saying that they…
Read MoreI just remembered this pre-xmas article from ROB (thanks to trolling on Bookninja). The gist of it (as in the New York Times Magazine link Kenton posted the other day) is that magazines are going online. Which we knew. But like anything else online, how are they going to make…
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