May 2007
Nathaniel
G. Moore's "Let's Pretend We Never Met"
Patchy
Squirrel
CUPE
complains to PM Harper
variations
zine
Stephen
King on the school shooter
What
is Stephen Harper reading?
Sailing
Time's Ocean reviewed
The
Big Book of Pop Culture
Google
fights genocide in Dafur
ReLit
Long List
Griffin
Prize Press Release (pdf)
culture
court
Hamilton
Poetry Centre
Technophobic
Medieval Bibliophiles
April 2007
Jackknife
Express
Southern
Ontario Library Service
Club
Amick: Young Aboriginals Readers Program (pdf)
Literature
and Fiction Resources: Ontario Library Service
Ursula
Franklin
Women
in Film and Television
Worldwide
Short Film Festival
New
Approaches in Canadian Prairie Literature
Magazines
Canada
Shadow
Train
Sisters
In Crime
Cooked
and Eaten (Peterborough)
KI
Press's MySpace
Canadian
Association for Sound Ecology
Max
Middle Sound Project (YouTube)
Writers
Blogs
Canadian
author profiles (Quill & Quire)
February/March
2007
MS
Read-a-Thon
Diaspora
Dialogues
keeptorontoreading.ca
a discussion group to plan and organize the formation of an association for online literary magazines and presses
torkstar.com:
underground fiction
(Calgary)
islandsfold.com
Gibraltar
Point International Artist Residency Program
thepilotproject.ca
living
the arts in ottawa: an open letter by rob mclennan
buffalo
small press book fair: march 3, 2007
BookNet
Canada Technology Forum
luna
publications
Edit
Red (UK)
toronto
arts coalition: newsletter 19
canadian
literature: resources
2007
puddle leaflet subscription
dear
prime minister harper petition
blissful
times
December
2006/January 2007
New
Wave Canada: Coach House Press and the Small Press Movement in English
Canada in the 1960s (Library and Archives Canada online exhibit)
Inkorrectthots
Regent
Park TV
Conversations
in the Book Trade
Strong
Words (Toronto reading series)
Expozine
(Montreal)
Eleventh
Transmission (Calgary)
InkNoire
(Burnaby, B.C.)
Canadian
Literature Centre (U of Alberta)
2nd
Metcalf-Rooke Award Winner is Kathleen Winter (Biblioasis, Windsor)
George
Elliott Clarke profiled (U of Waterloo English newsletter)
October/November
2006
Margaret
Atwood in a green hat. At the Eden Mills Writers Festival.
Make
Climate Change History
Writers
Trust Blog
Writers
Trust Workshop Program
Critical
Perspectives on Hockey in Canada and Beyond
Creative
City Network of Canada
The
Paris Review interviews Stephen King
Canadian
Strange: Drunken Boat
Writer's
Directory of Short Fiction and Poetry Publications
Canadian
Comic Art Centre
826Valencia.org
Kootenay
School of Writing
Nigel
Beale Nota Bene Books
Robert Allen 1946-2006
The prolific writer, teacher, editor, mentor, and dear friend, Robert Allen, died on Friday, November 3 2006. He was the author of nine collections of poetry, three novels, and one collection of short fiction. His most recent book was the brilliant long poem,
The Encantadas, published just this spring by Conundrum.
September 2006
Top
100 books sold at Pages
Ruminations
on the short story (from The Bicycle)
Authors
Aloud: The voices of Canadian literature
Words
at Large (CBC)
literacyjournal.ca
UnlikelyStories.org
imagineatoronto.ca
ArtReach
(Toronto)
The Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry
Galleon
TorGame.com
2006
CBC Literary Awards competition
Summer 2006
Euston
Manifesto
Journalists
in Excile - Canada
El
Dorado (Ottawa)
ReLit
Awards - Short Lists!
XSpace
Northern
Poetry Review
june 17, 2006: ottawa
small press book fair
May 2006
J.R.
Carpenter's short story list
biblioasis.com
Trillium
Book Award Winners (pdf)
Test
(reading series, Toronto)
screen-novel.blogspot.com
grub
street: where boston gets writing
fresh
tracks: spoken word recordings in canada
March/April 2006
Giller
Prize Jury: Alice Munro, Michael Winter, Adrienne Clarkson
Reading
Toronto
BlogTO
Spire
Poetry
Yahoo
small press groups
Gary
Barwin's blog
Literary
Journals in Canada: The Next Generation
The
ReLit Awards: Ideas, Not Money
2006
Canada Post Literacy Awards
misunderstandings
magazine
February 2006
New site for poetry
reviews! Publishers stop sending TDR your poetry books and send them
here --> poetryreviews.ca
Too
much fact in John Banville's THE SEA says Kenneth J. Harvey
Some short story
links:
January 2006
Have you kept up with
the recent poetry anthologies and critical tomes? Here's a quick list:
The
New Canon, Edited by Carmine
Starnino (Vehicule Press, 2005)
Shift & Switch: New Canadian Poetry
, Edited by derek beaulieu, Jason Christie & Angela Rawlings. (The
Mercury Press, 2005)
Writing in Our Time: Canada's Radical Poetries in English (1957-2003),
by Pauline Butling, and Susan Rudy. (Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2005)
Post-PRAIRIE: An Anthology of New Poetry,
Edited by Robert
Kroetsch, Jon Paul Fiorentino. (Talon, 2005)
Open Field: 30 Contemporary Canadian
Poets, Edited by Sina Queyras and Sina Queyras. (Persea Books, 2005)
Breathing Fire 2: Canada's New
Poets, Edited by Lorna Crozier & Patrick Lane. (Nightwood Editions, 2004)
December 2005
War
Is Over (If You Want It)
"Six
Million Million Miles" by TDR publisher and editor Michael Bryson
is included in 05:
Best Canadian Stories
The Guardian names This Ain't the Rosedale Library Canada's best independent bookstore & one of the world's Top
10
Lobbying the Canada Art Council to expand their criteria to recognize and promote the translation and publication of foreign works
Canada
Reads: The Books
Poet-in-Chief
Creators'
Copyright Coalition
Artichoke
paperplates
vol. 6 no. 3
Taddle
Creek (Winter 2005)
Anatomizing
Regan
November 2005
Hal
Niedzviecki
Ottawa
Poetry Newsletter
Fray
is a movement
Ivan
Bunin
uTOpia:
Towards a New Toronto
Nathaniel
G. Moore's bowlbrawl
The Trouble with Normal: Breathing Fire II, Pissing Ice and the State of Canadian Poetry
George
Bowering Feature in Jacket Magazine (Australia)
tqrstories
Patricia
Young wins Metcalf-Rooke
Award
Word
is expanding and changing
September/October2005
donotdrill.ca
Word
is expanding and changing
Ottawa
Small Press Fair (Oct. 15)
Toronto
Small Press Fair (Oct. 29)
critical
crushes
Toronto
International Festival of Authors (Oct. 19-29)
Arctic
Puppets of Death
Summer 2005
Desire,
Doom & Vice: A Canadian Collection
The
Metcalf Rooke Award
Make
Poverty History
Murderous
Signs
Pax
Warrior
Edmonton
Small Press Association
m-pty
CollisionDetection
May 2005
A
Literary Atlas of Canada
Industry
Profile: Book Publishing
Why
Literature Matters
Hot
Type
Thunderburst
(UK)
Macleans
has a book page
Mourning
Marla
Zafusy
TDR
Editor Interviewed (On The Danforth)
On
Saul Bellow (The Guardian)
Terry
Fox Foundation - 25th anniversary of the Marathon of Hope
zine
fair - Ottawa (May 14, 2005)
Toronto
Small Press Fair (May 21, 2005)
April 2005
Ottawa
International Writers Festival - Spring Edition (April 18-25, 2005)
kafka.org
La
Mano Izquierda
Al
Purdy archive at the CBC
Fiction
isn't selling (1)
Fiction
isn't selling (2)
a
fundamental shift from literature as a crucial cultural conversation
to a low-prestige consumer commodity
JPF
on CS
zine
fair - Ottawa (May 14, 2005)
Soap
Scum Projects
Death
of short fiction continues
Lexiconjury
the
writing found in short story collections ... is generally superior
to that in novels
March 2005
Amis
vs. Hitchens
A
conference in honour of Frank Davey
Ottawa
Small Press Fair (June 18, 2005)
Toronto
Small Press Fair (May 21, 2005)
Matt
Firth on micropresses
Lit
blogs fill a niche
Nation
Books
Artcity
(Toronto)
Story
by Mark Anthony Jarman
February 2005
The
Paris Review Interviews (all of 'em)
Writer's
Cafe
Hideout
Press
Remembering
Richard Outram [from Bookninja]
Take
a Joy Read
Biblioasis
Family
Literacy Day (Canada)
National
Center for Family Literacy (USA)
National
Adult Literacy Database (Canada)
The
trouble with "Canada Reads" [from Canadian Literature]
CanSpell
"Who
owns the knowledge economy?" [from The Corner House]
rob
mclennan interviewed in UK [from Stride Magazine]
January 2005
Cranks
and Lurkers
War
Is Over (If You Want It)
December 2004
Runaway
Jury: A freelance jury re-runs the GG's award for poetry 2004 on
goodreports.net
Zach
Wells asks some questions about the 2004 GG award for poetry (from
Maisonneuve)
Dislocate
(USA)
Little
Fish Cart Press
Go-Ezines
- Recommeded sites
Orphan
Leaf Review (UK)
2004
Ottawa International Writers Festival in Pictures
Canada
Council Annual Report
Small
Press Center (USA)
Canada
Reads
paperplates
vol. 6 no. 2
How
to deal with Amazon
Short
short fiction: The problem with (from
StorySouth)
Toronto
Arts Coalition - Opportunities Page
artsonline.ca
Pandora's
Collective (Vancouver)
The
Five Million Copies Project
November 2004
Finalists
for the 2004 Governor General's Literary Awards
Canada-US
Fulbright Program
Hamilton
Poetry Centre
gritLIT
[Hamilton]
Postcard
Project
Research
into the current state of the short story [UK]
Dooney's
secret agent report on the Chapters/Indigo shareholders tell-all
The
Further Somniloquies of Dion McGregor: More
Outrageous Recordings of the World’s Most Renowned Sleeptalker
Get
thee an agent
Interview
with Jonathan Bennett [from poetics.ca]
Authors
Rights
New
classifications for the short story [from The Guardian]
October 2004
Zach
Wells meets Shane Neilson
[from Maisonneuve]
