A New Year! Time to update the world about my sporadic media consumption via one of my less-than-even-sporadic blog posts.To sum up what I did for amusement over last spring (which is far as I’ve gotten with this tale): after my Game of Thrones marathon, I felt the need for…
Read MoreIt's been a while since I posted about my experience reading the first Song of Ice and Fire book. So what stories have I been reading and watching since then? This post is Part 1 of about eight or nine months' worth of books and "TV," but maybe that's a…
Read MoreA Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin My rating: 3 of 5 stars This is so terribly written and full of cliches that it makes my brain drip out my ear as I read it. AND YET I CAN'T STOP. I might even start the next book. That's why…
Read MoreA very literary week is coming up for CreComm Section 2. Lauren Parsons will hear part of her early oeuvre come to life at the reading/launch of Scirocco/MAP [Manitoba Association of Playwrights] Manitoba High School Playwriting Competition anthology I Was a Teenage Playwright on Monday night at McNally Robinson. On…
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…
Read MorePlease post and circulate. Call for Papers: Symposium on Manitoba Writing organized by the Manitoba Writers’ Guild to be held at Canadian Mennonite University, Winnipeg, Manitoba May 10-12, 2012 See attached for full information. In celebration of the 30th Anniversary of the Manitoba Writers’ Guild (MWG), you are invited to…
Read MoreOkay, summer isn't quite waning yet. But I feel work beckoning from the other end. Instead of actually working, I decided to "work" on my web presence, such as it is; this after a summer of largely avoiding on-linedom. The following has been accomplished: updated long-neglected Flickr stream created Tumblr…
Read MoreGraduating Students of the Awesome Writer Variety! You should apply for this if you haven't already been snapped up in gainful employment for the summer: Call: Aqua Books Emerging Writer-in-Residence Aqua Books' successful Writer-in-Residence program has included such local luminaries as writer/thespian Carolyn Gray, film writer Kier-La Janisse, and, most…
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