Tonya Liburd's Blog, page 9
March 7, 2017
Quoth
“The oppressors most powerful weapon is the mind of the oppressed.”
Steve Biko
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February 17, 2017
I have been nominated for a Rhysling Award!
My poem “The Architect of Bonfires, published in Space and Time Magazine, (ISSUE #127, Winter 2016) has been nominated for a Rhysling Award!
You can buy the issue of Space and Time Magazine here.
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February 8, 2017
My interview with Dive Into Worldbuilding!
Dive into Worldbuilding hosted me today! The video of our discussion, which includes mention of “Home Again, Home again, Jiggity Jig”, is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5V2m78GtNg
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February 5, 2017
Quoth
There are days when the creative tap only drips. Here’s a tip: put aside the Big Project for a few hours, grab a notepad and pen and head outside. Be a reporter. Don’t write fancy sentences or big ideas or pretty metaphors. Just describe what you see and hear in straightforward reportage. Transcribe an overheard conversation on the streetcar. Describe the clothes someone is wearing at the bus stop. List the items the guy ahead of you has in his shopping cart. Just… write. It’s amazing how the physical act of translating the seen and heard into words can open things up and get you back to the Big Project with the taps wide open.
Andrew Pyper is an award-winning and bestselling author of several novels, including The Demonologist. He has also taught creative writing at Trent University, the University of Toronto and Colorado College.
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January 20, 2017
January 11, 2017
UnCommon Minds is ready for pre-order!
UnCommon Minds: A Collection of AIs, Dreamwalkers, and other Psychic Mysteries is available for pre-order now!
Contains my story “Through Dreams She Moves”, Longlisted in the 2015 Carter V Cooper (Vanderbilt)/Exile Short Story Competition!
http://smarturl.it/UnCommonMinds
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Epiphany
Just realized this as things gelled together:-
I will have something of mine published in December (Space & Time Magazine, poem) January (story in UnCommon Minds anthology) February (A flash fiction piece in the “Mondays Are Murder” series, Akashic Books) and in March (a Gothic horror story in Ravenwood Quarterly, “Safe & Sound”).
That’s… neat, right?
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January 3, 2017
Quoth
“The most important thing if you want to be a writer is to find something to get you going. What usually works for me is a deadline. Sign up for a writers’ class, join a writers’ group, volunteer for a local paper — do whatever you have to do so that someone somewhere is expecting you to hand them something. Make it as good as you can make it, and then show it to someone and listen to what they have to say and then go at it again.
If that sounds like fun to you, then maybe you are a writer. If it sounds like lunacy, if it sounds like torture — you’re probably right too.”
Stuart McLean
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December 17, 2016
My award eligible work for 2016
These are the things I’ve had published this year.
Fiction:-
“Shoe Man”, July 2016 issue, Expanded Horizons
Nonfiction:-
“The Sweater”, The Malahat Review, issue #193, “Elusive Boundaries: Mapping Creative Nonfiction in Canada.”
Microfiction:-
@7×20 Magazine:- “White Tail”, “Bible-Black Joe”, “Contemplation”, “Surprise Visitor”, “The Meat Puppet Strings”, “Escape” parts one, two, three
“Still Life”, Grievous Angel (Urban Fantasist), July 17th 2016
Poetry:-
“Contemplation”, July 2016 Cascadia Subduction Zone
“The Architect of Bonfires”, Winter 2017, Space and Time Magazine
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