Casey June Wolf's Blog, page 11

a mix of the artsy with some respectable hard SF: Schellenberg reviews Finding Creatures

Finding Creatures & Other Stories, C. June Wolf, Wattle and Daub Books, 2008, 236 pp.

The Storyteller and Other Tales, K.V. Johansen, Sybertooth, 2008, 106 pp.

I'd like to take a look at two recent short story collections, Finding Creatures & Other Stories and The Storyteller and Other Tales. Both are by Canadian authors, and are published by small Canadian presses (see more detail below). I feel like it's been a while since I've checked in with the work being done by Canadian author and...

My Haiti Writings

I was asked by a friend where she could find my writings on Haiti. I discovered that they are not so easy to find on this blog as I'd assumed (bad tagging?), so here is the digest of important links. (There are also a number of Haiti postings not written by me, which you can find by following the tag "Haiti".)
my stories are in my book (Finding Creatures & Other Stories, by C. June Wolf. do you have? can send pdfs of said stories if required.) OH! one is on the blog:

Jou a Rive: The Day Will Come

TREZO "Jou A Rive" Music Video from Ciné Institute on Vimeo.

[image error]Jacmel, Haiti
cineinstitute.comCiné Institute provides Haitian youth with film education, training and production support. The Institute's programs are: Ciné Lekòl; a film school offering training in fiction documentary and commercials. Ciné Services; an income generating production center for film school students and graduates. Ciné Klas; daily educational film screenings in partnership with national public schools and Ciné Klub...

Nice Makes Write: Interviewed by Robert Runté

Here it is! Robert Runté's interview of me in today's issue of Strange Horizons. The photo was taken by Patrik in La Vale de Jakmel, Ayiti (Haiti) in 2006. That's mayi boukonen I'm eating and it is yummy and CHEWY!

Nice Makes Write: An Interview with Casey WolfBy Robert Runté

8 February 2010

Casey Wolf is the author of numerous speculative short stories, several of which were recently collected as Finding Creatures & Other Stories by C. June Wolf.

Wolf's stories represent a uniquely Canadian...

Award Winner!!!

Okay, not really fair. It isn't my writing that's won an award, but my blog, and it's a "fun" award, not a big prestigious award but HEY! Who cares? It IS fun.

Martina Carter of the blog Creative Chronicles picked Den Page of C. June Wolf as one of her choices for the Over the Top Award. What she says:

The rules of the award are to answer the questions with one word answers, then to pass it on.

Your Hair? - Whacky.
Your Favourite Food? - Healthy
Your Hobby? - Yakking
Your Fear? - Atrophy
Your...

Letter from Carla in Port au Prince

Carla is one of the friends I was worried about when the earthquake hit Haiti. This is a note she sent out two days ago.

I am and continue to be overwhelmed by all of the messages of love and support since almost the first words indicating there had been an earthquake here. It was so overwhelming the first time I saw all the messages, I literally ran away from the computer as sobs started to rise from my chest to my throat as I realized that in the cries for knowing about us was because...

5th annual Cyberspace Poetry Slam for Brigid

Autumn Hiscock passed on through Facebook the invitation to publish Brigit poetry all over the web today.And why would we do this?

Brigit is a Celtic triple goddess, as well as a saint of later and different but related fame. As a goddess she is patron (matron?) of Poetry, Healing, and Smithcraft. So it is not surprising that many writers of a Pagan or Christian bent are attracted to this personage. (Go to the bottom of this post to see my offering.) Autumn encourages us to "Help weave a web...

Recent Library Thing Reviews

I've been reading a broad variety of books recently, and some of these I have done brief reviews of on Library Thing. Here are a few. For all my LT reviews, go to: http://www.librarything.com/profile_reviews.php?view=thesmellofbooks

The Kar-Chee Reign by Avram DavidsonAvram Davidson is a master of short fiction but I had heard his novels, few as they are, didn't measure up. I was expecting a flub; that's not what I got.

Davidson adopts a voice in writing the Kar-Chee Reign that remains...

Haiti Earthquake Notes & Essay by Robert Parry

I won't here describe the already well known disaster that has hit Haiti. I will simply say that many of my friends there are in the earthquake zone and their communities have been damaged or destroyed. The ones I have heard of are alive, but beyond that I don't have any details about individuals, their homes, etc. I do know that the community of La Vale de Jakmel, which I have visited a number of times, is cut off from food and water and medical aid, as are many rural communities. Many...

Delay in Publishing "Triona's Beans"

I was looking at editor Ahmed Kahn's LiveJournal just now and noticed this:

Sat, Jan. 2nd, 2010, 09:15 am
2009 - A Writerly Round Up

Achievements

...Anthologies:

Collected stories for 2 anthologies: "Fun Times in Strange Lands" and "Cheer Up, Universe"

Non-Achievements

Have not been able to publish the anthologies yet. ZC Books (who were going to publish the books) is closing its doors and I am actively seeking other publishers.

Drat! "Fun Times in Strange Lands" is the one Päivi Kuosmanen and I...