TDR QUICKNEWS
Update: September 13, 2007
by Nathaniel G. Moore
MICHAEL REDHILL CAPTURES THE TORONTO BOOK AWARD
Poet, playwright and novelist Michael Redhill won the 2007 Toronto Book awards for his novel Consolation (Doubleday). Read more
http://www.toronto.ca/book_awards
BEN MCNALLY OPENS STORE ON BAY STREET IN TORONTO
To help dissuade the Toronto book buying public from relying on the big brand bookstores and possibly encourage a return to consumer sensibility, a brand new independent bookstore for the downtown business core in Toronto has emerged. Sounds like a great idea. Let’s get those high rolling fat cats reading.
More at: http://www.benmcnallybooks.com
BC MAGAZINE GETS A NEW WEB LOOK
One of Canada’s leading cultural magazines, Geist was founded in 1990. They’ve reloaded their website. Check it out!
http://www.geist.com
34TH PARALLEL LAUNCHES PREMIERE ISSUE
34thParallel was formed and founded by Trace Sheridan and Martin Chipperfield, “a couple of writers who realized a way to help others also struggling in a sea of obscurity.”
http://www.34thparallel.net
MONTREAL TOURISM ANNOUNCES MONSTER ISLAND 3 WITH TOUR GUIDE BILLY MAVREAUS
 A book work which dangles itself between comic anthology and art criticism, Monster Island 3 acts as a tour guide to strange gaggle of visual artists all camping out on the same netherworld of fantasy and creativity. Contributors include: John Mavreas, Carlos Santos, Jesse Bochner, Tessa Fenger, Jennifer Macintyre, Shawn Jefferies, Guy Boutin, Helene Brosseau, Leyla Majeri, Rupert Bottenberg, Howard Chackowicz, Sean McCarthy, and Shawn Cheng.
Monster Island 3, published earlier this year by Conundrum is edited by Montreal artist and guerrilla consultant Billy Mavreaus. He and publisher Andy Brown “talked about a fantasy version that would be big and full and all that good stuff that only perfect binding can provide.”
And, after getting the go-ahead for the book, Mavreaus began gently pestering his friends and colleagues for pieces. “I was initially interested in artists who came from a Science fiction and fantasy background, sub-culturally but I knew I’d have to expand that if I was to include other artists I knew and liked.” Mavreaus is toying with a 4th dimension of Monster Island, “maybe as a zine or a portfolio of prints or an audio tape, I’m not sure yet....but it will be a continuing project of things I am most interested in aesthetically lot of ground to cover.”
For more tourist information, please visit Billy’s blog….
http://billymavreas.blogspot.com
or book your passage today http://www.conundrumpress.com/nt_monsterIsland.html
INDIE ZOMBIES SOUGHT FOR CANZINE AND POSSIBLE THRILLER, THRILLER NIGHT…
According to Broken Pencil editor Lindsay Gibb, Canzine will be “brimming with ghost story readings, puppet torture, an interactive murder mystery, horror special effects training.”
And further investigations have lead to second-hand accounts deep within the dungeons of Broken Pencil’s clandestine camp where the magazine has been toiling for months on its inevitable horror issue, launching at Canzine. Expect some cutthroat and also thrilling book reviews, tips on how to become a published horror author and writings about indie Gothic Can-Lit.
"I expect this to be the best Canzine ever,” cries BP books editor Erin Kobayashi ghoulishly. “Some of Toronto's best indie storytellers will be sitting around a faux campfire telling tales of horror. There will also be horror screenings, DIY gore and guts workshops, zombie makeovers and of course, access to hundreds of zines.
The Broken Pencil team will get to play dress-up and dead since the official uniform this year is zombies…If there are enough people dressed up as zombies, we can do the Thriller dance at the end of the day."
Hotel Canzine costs $5 (includes a copy of the new issue) and it all goes down on Sunday, October 28, 2007 at Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen St. West. For more info visit:
www.brokenpencil.com
 INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF AUTHORS
The 2007 International Festival of Authors is scheduled for October 17 – October 27, 2007. TDR will be there with one Can-Lit biggest babyfaces. But who is it?
http://www.readings.org/?q=ifoa
On the first night of the festival, Margaret Atwood is in conversation with Ian Rankin as part of a PEN Canada Benefit at the Premiere Dance Theatre.
WRITER’S UNION OF CANADA / CBC LITERARY AWARDS
The writer’s union of Canada Invites entries for its Short Prose Competition for Developing Writers. Submit: nonfiction and fiction prose 2500 words max. Prize: $2500. Open to Canadian citizens or landed immigrants and all writers who have not been published in book format. Entry fee: $25. Deadline: November 3, 2007.
http://www.writersunion.ca/cn_shortprose.asp
The CBC Literary Awards Competition welcomes original submission of unpublished short stories, poetry and creative non-fiction in French or English. In addition to prize money, the winning entries are published in enRoute magazine. The contest closes November 1, 2007.
http://www.radio-canada.ca/prixlitteraires/english/index.shtml
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