Stuart Ross's Blog, page 29

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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"Three Arms Less" — a video reading

Over and out.

"The Engagement" — a video reading

Over and out.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Tree Reading, then the Rogue Stimulus tour!

Tomorrow night, February 23, I read for the first time at Ottawa's legendary Tree Reading Series, along with Stephen Brockwell. I'm going to be reading from a new poetry chapbook, I've Come to Talk about Manners, which'll be ready for the reading from Cameron Anstee's nifty Apt. 9 Press, as well as new short stories. I'll have Dogs to flog. So to speak.

The details:

Tuesday, February 23, 2010
8 - 10 pm
Ottawa Arts Court
2 Daly Avenue
Ottawa, ON

Tree hosts two writers at the Ottawa Arts Court...