Stuart Ross's Blog, page 29
April 27, 2010
A few days left to vote for Cigarettes! Plus two new nominations!
OK, here I am in the little cabin in New Denver, B.C. Just about dusk. Raining pattering on the metal roof. Slocan Lake, which I see out my window here, is choppy and beautiful.
Came out west a couple weekends ago, first to Edmonton, where I took part in a panel organized by the Alberta Readers Choice Award people. Strange experience, but a lot of fun. Even if the champion for one of the other books dismissed Buying Cigarettes for the Dog as "fluff." Simone Lee, of Calgary's Pages Bookstore o...
Came out west a couple weekends ago, first to Edmonton, where I took part in a panel organized by the Alberta Readers Choice Award people. Strange experience, but a lot of fun. Even if the champion for one of the other books dismissed Buying Cigarettes for the Dog as "fluff." Simone Lee, of Calgary's Pages Bookstore o...
April 16, 2010
So Sue Me: A video reading
Just arrived in Edmonton this afternoon for tomorrow's Alberta Readers' Choice Award Publishers' Fair at the Stanley A. Milner branch of the Edmonton Public Library.
Also gonna hang out with Wayne Arthurson and with Mark McCawley and hopefully other people too.
Then: off to the Kootenays!
In the meantime, you can still vote, every day until April 30, for Buying Cigarettes for the Dog right here. I'd be mighty grateful if you did.
Also, in the meantime, here's another video reading from the book:
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Also gonna hang out with Wayne Arthurson and with Mark McCawley and hopefully other people too.
Then: off to the Kootenays!
In the meantime, you can still vote, every day until April 30, for Buying Cigarettes for the Dog right here. I'd be mighty grateful if you did.
Also, in the meantime, here's another video reading from the book:
O...
April 6, 2010
April 2, 2010
"The Engagement" — a video reading
Over and out.
April 1, 2010
Cigarettes' Champion
It was Calgary bookseller Simone Lee who ushered by short-story collection Buying Cigarettes for the Dog from the Top 10 shortlist for the Alberta Readers Choice Award to the Top 5, and thus to the public vote.
Simone owns the great and friendly indie bookstore Pages on Kensington. Here she is talking about Cigarettes.
And here's where you can vote. Every day till April 30.
With the help of my publisher, Freehand Books, as well as the Edmonton Public Library, I'm going to be able to attend the A...
Simone owns the great and friendly indie bookstore Pages on Kensington. Here she is talking about Cigarettes.
And here's where you can vote. Every day till April 30.
With the help of my publisher, Freehand Books, as well as the Edmonton Public Library, I'm going to be able to attend the A...
March 31, 2010
David W. McFadden's Collected Long Poems
In 2007, I had the thrill and honour of editing Why Are You So Sad? Selected Poems of David W. McFadden for Insomniac Press. There I was, working on a Selected with the guy whose poetry changed it all for me when I stumbled on one of his books in a library at around age 15. Why Are You So Sad? was shortlisted for the Canadian Griffin Prize for Poetry.
Then in 2008, it was just as exciting working with Dave on a new collection of sonnets for Mansfield Press, where I'm the poetry editor. The boo...
Then in 2008, it was just as exciting working with Dave on a new collection of sonnets for Mansfield Press, where I'm the poetry editor. The boo...
March 26, 2010
Alberta, Jim, Memoir
Alberta
The voting for the Alberta Readers Choice Award continues until April 30. If you like my book Buying Cigarettes for the Dog, you can vote for it right here. Every day. I'd be very grateful. Going to post another story from the book in the next few days.
Jim
Jim Smith is one of my literary heroes. I don't think there's anyone in North America doing what he does in poetry. His work is complex, accessible, visceral, funny, political, personal. You can read a nice little interview with him r...
The voting for the Alberta Readers Choice Award continues until April 30. If you like my book Buying Cigarettes for the Dog, you can vote for it right here. Every day. I'd be very grateful. Going to post another story from the book in the next few days.
Jim
Jim Smith is one of my literary heroes. I don't think there's anyone in North America doing what he does in poetry. His work is complex, accessible, visceral, funny, political, personal. You can read a nice little interview with him r...
March 20, 2010
Memoir workshop in Port Hope
Next Saturday, I'm leading a memoir-writing workshop in Port Hope, just an hour outside of Toronto. Here are the details:
WAYS OF BEING: A MEMOIR-WRITING WORKSHOP
Saturday, March 27, Noon - 5 pm
$60
Furby House Books (upstairs), 65 Walton St., Port Hope
In this relaxed and enjoyable workshop for both beginning and published writers, we'll explore the forms and possibilities of memoir and the personal essay. We'll look at memoir through fiction, poetry, letters, the postcard essay, and other...
March 15, 2010
A City, Some Rain (and please vote for my book!)
My short-story collection Buying Cigarettes for the Dog (Freehand Books, 2009) is one of five finalists for the Alberta Readers' Choice Award. Now the public votes. Daily, even. Here's the link to vote.
Below is the second in a series of excerpts from the collection. "A City, Some Rain" was originally commissioned by ArtSpeak, a Vancouver art gallery that was looking for something text-driven to accompany their Toni Latour catalogue. Toni does a lot of performance stuff in which she imitates c...
Below is the second in a series of excerpts from the collection. "A City, Some Rain" was originally commissioned by ArtSpeak, a Vancouver art gallery that was looking for something text-driven to accompany their Toni Latour catalogue. Toni does a lot of performance stuff in which she imitates c...
March 14, 2010
Alberta Readers' Choice Award: voting starts March 15!
I don't know how the voting is going to work. But Buying Cigarettes for the Dog is in the shortlist of 5, culled from a total of 225 books published in Alberta last year.
If you feel like voting for my book, I'd be mighty grateful. Unless there's another book on the list you'd prefer to vote for.
Here's the website. I assume instructions for how Albertans can vote will be posted in the morning.
Other stuff has been happening. Tons of it. The Rogue Stimulus launch tour. A trip to NYC. More on tho...
If you feel like voting for my book, I'd be mighty grateful. Unless there's another book on the list you'd prefer to vote for.
Here's the website. I assume instructions for how Albertans can vote will be posted in the morning.
Other stuff has been happening. Tons of it. The Rogue Stimulus launch tour. A trip to NYC. More on tho...
