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September 15, 2024
Steering the Craft: A 21st-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story by Ursula K. Le Guin
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Steering the Craft: A 21st-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story
by Ursula K. Le GuinHarper Collins, 2015Send My Love to Anyone is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support this project, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.
Steering the Craft: A 21st-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story by Ursula K. Le Guin offers a no-nonsense approach to the craft of writing. It steers us away from focusing only on self-expression as craft and towards other important elements such as grammar, punctuation, sound, sentence structure, tense, and point of view.
Steering the Craft, a slim volume with advice, examples, and exercises developed from a five-day workshop Le Guin taught, was originally published in 1998 and was “enthusiastically” received. Unsurprisingly, it sold well, and Le Guin decided to update it 2015.
Her thoughts on group workshop really align with mine. “Group criticism is great training for self criticism,” she maintains. But at the end of the day, the writer needs to learn how to evaluate and judge their own work for themselves:
Ultimately you write alone. And ultimately you and you alone can judge your work.
Sometimes I fear the workshop model makes writers, especially new writers, too dependent on the opinion of others, so I was happy to see Le Guin’s take.
Le Guin also makes good arguments for writers understanding the conventions of the language they are using and considers it a vital part of craft; however, she also has no time for “grammar bullies”.
“If you don’t know the real rules, you may fall for the fake ones,” Le Guin writes and cites pronoun purity as an example of a fake rule:
My use of their is socially motivated and, if you like, politically correct: a deliberate response to the socially and politically significant banning of our genderless pronoun by language legislators enforcing the notion that the male sex is the only one that counts. I consistently break a rule I consider to be not only fake but pernicious. I know what I’m doing and why.
And that’s the important thing for a writer: to know what you’re doing with your language and why. This involves knowing usage and punctuation well enough to use them skillfully, not as rules that impede you but as tools that serve you.
In one of my favourite exercises in the book, Le Guin instructs us to write a paragraph to a page with no punctuation. She also offers suggested subjects with her exercises, which the writer can take or leave. For the punctuation exercise, the suggested subject is as brilliant as the exercise itself:
A group of people engaged in a hurried or hectic or confused activity, such as a revelation, or the scene of an accident, or the first few minutes of a one-day sale.
Although this book offers salient craft advice, what I appreciate most and differs from most writing advice is that Le Guin never leaves her politics at the door—illustrating how craft, storytelling, and revolution need not and should not be separated or compartmentalized.
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Myna Wallin | Issue 40
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The Suicide Tourist
by Myna WallinEkstasis Editions, 2024A significant challenge of bipolar illness is the difficulty in making coherent decisions; one becomes an unreliable narrator in one’s own life. In this mental health confessional, poems about depression, mania, suicidal ideation, and the challenge of living with these disabilities are tackled with naked honesty and deep humour. In The Suicide Tourist, Wallin supersedes the stigma surrounding mental illness and excavates the themes of anxiety, fear, instability, mortality, and ultimately, liberation.
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September 7, 2024
Gatherings | Issue 40
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My NewsThanks to Hollay Ghadery for including Anecdotes in her 49th Shelf list of short story collections that “delight” and “unsettle”.
My micro short film “Do You Know What’s Great” adapted from a short story of the same name from my story collection, Anecdotes, will be screening in the Austin Micro Short Film Festival on September 16, 2024.
It’s even a finalist in the documentary category!
So thrilled to be interviewed by Jon DiSavino for Short Story Today
Kirby NewsCome check out our next Brockton Writers Reading on Sept 11, 2024, at 6:30 p.m.! IRL at Glad Day Books or virtual on YouTube. Featuring readers Hannah Mary McKinnon, Jeffrey Douglas, Niloufar-Lily Soltani, Kevin Craig, and guest speaker Kirby.
GatheringsRecommended ReadingRead Canada’s racist system claims another dead Indigenous boy by Brandi Morin in Riochet MagazineTwo RCMP officers shot and killed a 15-year-old boy in the small prairie town of Wetaskiwin, AB early Friday morning. I was immediately sick to my stomach when I read the news online. No matter how many times this violence unfolds against our people, despite knowing the disproportionate statistics, it’s always gutting. Because between the headlines, nothing is ever done about it and the stats are getting worse.
Canisia Lubrin on !
Reframeables Podcast and NewsletterReframing The Art of the Interview with Canisia LubrinFor this episode of Reframeables, we had the opportunity to speak with award-winning poet and novelist Canisia Lubrin about her new book Code Noir. After the interview, she sent the Reframeables duo an email, calling us both badass and tender, which is probably the best compliment we’ve ever been given — so there’s that…Read more5 months ago · 4 likes · Rebecca Davey and Natalie Daveytin_house
A post shared by @tin_houseRead Why Did Canada’s Top Art Gallery Push Out a Visionary Curator? by Jason McBride in The WalrusFrom the beginning of her tenure at the museum, Nanibush’s public views on Palestinian justice, expressed on her social media and elsewhere, had irritated powerful members of the board of trustees. She’d been reprimanded before. Three years ago, the museum adopted a new social media policy that, while vague, effectively said anything staffers posted was an extension of the AGO. Nanibush felt the policy was directed expressly at her and was furious. No other staffers, she felt, were being policed as she was. But in the fractious, emotionally charged time after October 7, any advocacy for Palestine risked being interpreted as antisemitic. Those same influential trustees—just two or three out of a board of twenty-seven—could now use Nanibush’s posts as an excuse to remove her from the museum.
Marina Magloire explores the correspondence between June Jordan and Audre Lorde. Some jaw-dropping revelations and betrayal here.
Read Moving Towards Life: Exploring the correspondence of June Jordan and Audre Lorde, Marina Magloire assembles an archive of a Black feminist falling-out over Zionism by Marina Magloire in the LA Review of Books.Jordan was a deeply sophisticated internationalist thinker with a materialist understanding of solidarity. Like a searchlight, her poetry and essays swing from South Africa to Nicaragua to Cuba to Hawaii to Iraq, often in support of their movements for liberation and self-determination. Palestine fits naturally into the broad range of her anti-imperialist sympathies.
Read Featuring Palestinian Voices Part 5 in Room Magazine
I’m currently listening to Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma by Claire Dederer about how to think about and deal with art monsters.
On What Sells a Book? in Publishing Confidential
Publishing ConfidentialWhat Sells a Book?I was going to publish this on Wednesday, but that is my (52nd!) birthday, so you are receiving it early…Read morea month ago · 259 likes · 74 comments · Kathleen SchmidtGary Barwin on The Next Chapter reflecting on “identity, language, culture and home in his latest, Imagining Imagining.”
The VajendaSteps to Reduce Your Risk of Dementia In my last post I discussed the fact that menopause hormone therapy (MHT) is not recommended by any menopause society to prevent dementia. Sometimes, when people hear/read this they feel discouraged, because they’ve been led to believe that only estrogen will help, and so when the state of the medical evidence is revealed it can be a bit of …Read morea month ago · 450 likes · 29 comments · Dr. Jen GunterRead James Folta’s Roberto Bolaño’s bank heist plan involves five poets in Lit HubIf you were putting together a heist crew, how many poets would you include? If you’re Roberto Bolaño, it’s all poets; no getaway drivers, no safecrackers, no wisecracking tech experts. Just poets.
Read Microplastics are infiltrating brain tissue, studies show: ‘There’s nowhere left untouched’ by Douglas Main in the GuardianA growing body of scientific evidence shows that microplastics are accumulating in critical human organs, including the brain, leading researchers to call for more urgent actions to rein in plastic pollution.
Alexander Chee on what we make art for
Listen to ‘What Do We Make Art For?’: Alexander Chee on Storytelling, Motivation, and Money with on Reckon True Stories Episode 5“I’ve been thinking a lot about, how do we decide the terms under which we make art? What do we make art for? And are we making art to help ourselves survive? Does it help others survive? The novel that I am working on now, Other People’s Husbands, the one that I just sold, is something I wrote to make myself laugh, in part, during a very difficult time. And so it’s my hope that it will help other people do that too.”
Read The Hidden Racism of Book Cover Design: The publishing industry’s troubling reliance on visual stereotypes by in The WalrusWhen Lisa began brainstorming concepts for the cover of her forthcoming non-fiction book, she wanted to give the creative team a lot of space. The thoughts she sent her editor were mostly open ended—social media handles of artists she loved, examples of books where she liked the aesthetic, notes on mood and palette. As a debut author, she didn’t want to overstep. But she also included a few more specific things: She wanted the art to be gender neutral—no pinks or purples. No images of Black people or linked hands, no variegated splotches suggestive of DEI or unity. She’d seen it done to too many other books by Black women—think Maame by Jessica George, or Brit Bennett’s The Vanishing Half. By giving a clear sense of her limits, Lisa figured she’d avoid the problem. (Lisa is a pseudonym; her book is in production with a major press.)
Read Breaking Down the Ontario Arts Council’s Literary Creation Projects Grant by Manahil Bandukwala in Open Book
For writers in Ontario, this is your reminder that the deadline for Literary Creation Projects (Works for Publication) is just around the corner. This grant gives $12,000 to work on your novel, poetry collection, short stories, essays, comics, and more.
The grant application has changed slightly from previous years, so this column will walk through the changes, as well as what you need to know to prepare an application.
Check out “On the Move” by in Rewilding
RewildingOn the MoveI come from a family of walkers. Fast walkers with long legs and wide strides. I remember having to run by my mother’s side as a child, just to keep up with her…Read more13 days ago · 10 likes · 4 comments · Isabel Gomez-Morianaon Craft Books You Can (Mostly) Skip:
Writer TherapyExtras: Craft Books You Can (mostly) SkipEvery time I hit a new milestone, I write an Extras column as a thank you to all of you for subscribing and reading…Read morea month ago · 3 likes · 3 comments · Sonal ChampseeNew literary journal alert! Pitukena Renowned Lenape poet and writer, D.A Lockhart has started a new literary journal, Pitukena “to rebuild a local literary community based upon Indigenous and allies experiences and efforts to build a new inclusive, supportive, and decolonized approach to art and literary craft.”
Very excited about this new journal! Submit your work to Pitukena!
’s new poetry book is available for pre-order from ARP!
Ben Robinson’s As Is is a study in place, the town of Hamilton Ontario, considering what it means to be connected to or attempt a connection to place as a settler. Many of the poems function as counter-histories, reading the local history and extracting details that get glossed over elsewhere: the first public building being a prison, the public hangings, the botched first treaty. Other poems are situated in the present, the personal, and look at how these founding errors ring through into the present, for both the individual and the community.
As Is searches for alternative frames for defining a local identity: expanding the sense of time to include the prehistoric, the fossil record of mammoth and wapiti in the area, and expanding the sense of place to consider the treaty boundary as a possible framework for understanding the region. Unusually for a book of poetry, it attempts reckoning with actual historical record.
’s Ottawa book launch!
rob mclennan's clever substackOTTAWA BOOK LAUNCH: rob mclennan’s On Beauty: stories (University of Alberta Press)Wednesday, September 25, 2024 : 7pm (opens at 6pm if you want to have dinner first…Read morea month ago · 2 likes · rob mclennanSMLTA contributor Stephen Humphrey on three classic sword dramas from Japan in
Eyes That See In the DarkSamurai veritéSeven Samurai…Read more24 days ago · Stephen HumphreyWhat I’m Listening ToSamira Mohyeddin interviews Kagiso Lesego Molope:
Hollay Ghadery on Short Story Today!
Nathan Whitlock interviews SMLTA contributor Deborah Dundas for What Happened Next:
Read Who Knew What About Alice Munro in The WalrusWhat I’m WatchingA couple of weeks ago, Whitlock spoke to writer and journalist Deborah Dundas, formerly the books editor for the Toronto Star and now one of its opinion editors. The occasion for the interview was Dundas’s first book, On Class, published by Biblioasis in 2023. But the two began by talking about Andrea Robin Skinner’s memoir that exposed her stepfather’s sexual abuse and Alice Munro’s knowledge of it—a story Dundas edited for the Star.
Living In The Wake: Honoring The Work of Christina Sharpe
To tune out of life, I’ve been watching Hacks, and it’s fun.
What good shows are you watching these days.
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Gatherings | Issue 30
I’m doing an upcoming post on newsletters for writers. Let me know if you have any questions about starting or running a newsletter.
Send My Love to Anyone is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.
My NewsThanks to Hollay Ghadery for including Anecdotes in her 49th Shelf list of short story collections that “delight” and “unsettle”.
My micro short film “Do You Know What’s Great” adapted from a short story of the same name from my story collection, Anecdotes, will be screening in the Austin Micro Short Film Festival on September 16, 2024.
It’s even a finalist in the documentary category!
So thrilled to be interviewed by Jon DiSavino for Short Story Today
Kirby NewsCome check out our next Brockton Writers Reading on Sept 11, 2024, at 6:30 p.m.! IRL at Glad Day Books or virtual on YouTube. Featuring readers Hannah Mary McKinnon, Jeffrey Douglas, Niloufar-Lily Soltani, Kevin Craig, and guest speaker Kirby.
GatheringsRecommended ReadingRead Canada’s racist system claims another dead Indigenous boy by Brandi Morin in Riochet MagazineTwo RCMP officers shot and killed a 15-year-old boy in the small prairie town of Wetaskiwin, AB early Friday morning. I was immediately sick to my stomach when I read the news online. No matter how many times this violence unfolds against our people, despite knowing the disproportionate statistics, it’s always gutting. Because between the headlines, nothing is ever done about it and the stats are getting worse.
Canisia Lubrin on !
Reframeables Podcast and NewsletterReframing The Art of the Interview with Canisia LubrinFor this episode of Reframeables, we had the opportunity to speak with award-winning poet and novelist Canisia Lubrin about her new book Code Noir. After the interview, she sent the Reframeables duo an email, calling us both badass and tender, which is probably the best compliment we’ve ever been given — so there’s that…Read more5 months ago · 4 likes · Rebecca Davey and Natalie Daveytin_house
A post shared by @tin_houseRead Why Did Canada’s Top Art Gallery Push Out a Visionary Curator? by Jason McBride in The WalrusFrom the beginning of her tenure at the museum, Nanibush’s public views on Palestinian justice, expressed on her social media and elsewhere, had irritated powerful members of the board of trustees. She’d been reprimanded before. Three years ago, the museum adopted a new social media policy that, while vague, effectively said anything staffers posted was an extension of the AGO. Nanibush felt the policy was directed expressly at her and was furious. No other staffers, she felt, were being policed as she was. But in the fractious, emotionally charged time after October 7, any advocacy for Palestine risked being interpreted as antisemitic. Those same influential trustees—just two or three out of a board of twenty-seven—could now use Nanibush’s posts as an excuse to remove her from the museum.
Marina Magloire explores the correspondence between June Jordan and Audre Lorde. Some jaw-dropping revelations and betrayal here.
Read Moving Towards Life: Exploring the correspondence of June Jordan and Audre Lorde, Marina Magloire assembles an archive of a Black feminist falling-out over Zionism by Marina Magloire in the LA Review of Books.Jordan was a deeply sophisticated internationalist thinker with a materialist understanding of solidarity. Like a searchlight, her poetry and essays swing from South Africa to Nicaragua to Cuba to Hawaii to Iraq, often in support of their movements for liberation and self-determination. Palestine fits naturally into the broad range of her anti-imperialist sympathies.
Read Featuring Palestinian Voices Part 5 in Room Magazine
I’m currently listening to Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma by Claire Dederer about how to think about and deal with art monsters.
On What Sells a Book? in Publishing Confidential
Publishing ConfidentialWhat Sells a Book?I was going to publish this on Wednesday, but that is my (52nd!) birthday, so you are receiving it early…Read morea month ago · 259 likes · 74 comments · Kathleen SchmidtGary Barwin on The Next Chapter reflecting on “identity, language, culture and home in his latest, Imagining Imagining.”
The VajendaSteps to Reduce Your Risk of Dementia In my last post I discussed the fact that menopause hormone therapy (MHT) is not recommended by any menopause society to prevent dementia. Sometimes, when people hear/read this they feel discouraged, because they’ve been led to believe that only estrogen will help, and so when the state of the medical evidence is revealed it can be a bit of …Read morea month ago · 450 likes · 29 comments · Dr. Jen GunterRead James Folta’s Roberto Bolaño’s bank heist plan involves five poets in Lit HubIf you were putting together a heist crew, how many poets would you include? If you’re Roberto Bolaño, it’s all poets; no getaway drivers, no safecrackers, no wisecracking tech experts. Just poets.
Read Microplastics are infiltrating brain tissue, studies show: ‘There’s nowhere left untouched’ by Douglas Main in the GuardianA growing body of scientific evidence shows that microplastics are accumulating in critical human organs, including the brain, leading researchers to call for more urgent actions to rein in plastic pollution.
Alexander Chee on what we make art for
Listen to ‘What Do We Make Art For?’: Alexander Chee on Storytelling, Motivation, and Money with on Reckon True Stories Episode 5“I’ve been thinking a lot about, how do we decide the terms under which we make art? What do we make art for? And are we making art to help ourselves survive? Does it help others survive? The novel that I am working on now, Other People’s Husbands, the one that I just sold, is something I wrote to make myself laugh, in part, during a very difficult time. And so it’s my hope that it will help other people do that too.”
Read The Hidden Racism of Book Cover Design: The publishing industry’s troubling reliance on visual stereotypes by in The WalrusWhen Lisa began brainstorming concepts for the cover of her forthcoming non-fiction book, she wanted to give the creative team a lot of space. The thoughts she sent her editor were mostly open ended—social media handles of artists she loved, examples of books where she liked the aesthetic, notes on mood and palette. As a debut author, she didn’t want to overstep. But she also included a few more specific things: She wanted the art to be gender neutral—no pinks or purples. No images of Black people or linked hands, no variegated splotches suggestive of DEI or unity. She’d seen it done to too many other books by Black women—think Maame by Jessica George, or Brit Bennett’s The Vanishing Half. By giving a clear sense of her limits, Lisa figured she’d avoid the problem. (Lisa is a pseudonym; her book is in production with a major press.)
Read Breaking Down the Ontario Arts Council’s Literary Creation Projects Grant by Manahil Bandukwala in Open Book
For writers in Ontario, this is your reminder that the deadline for Literary Creation Projects (Works for Publication) is just around the corner. This grant gives $12,000 to work on your novel, poetry collection, short stories, essays, comics, and more.
The grant application has changed slightly from previous years, so this column will walk through the changes, as well as what you need to know to prepare an application.
Check out “On the Move” by in Rewilding
RewildingOn the MoveI come from a family of walkers. Fast walkers with long legs and wide strides. I remember having to run by my mother’s side as a child, just to keep up with her…Read more6 days ago · 10 likes · 4 comments · Isabel Gomez-Morianaon Craft Books You Can (Mostly) Skip:
Writer TherapyExtras: Craft Books You Can (mostly) SkipEvery time I hit a new milestone, I write an Extras column as a thank you to all of you for subscribing and reading…Read more24 days ago · 3 likes · 3 comments · Sonal ChampseeNew literary journal alert! Pitukena Renowned Lenape poet and writer, D.A Lockhart has started a new literary journal, Pitukena “to rebuild a local literary community based upon Indigenous and allies experiences and efforts to build a new inclusive, supportive, and decolonized approach to art and literary craft.”
Very excited about this new journal! Submit your work to Pitukena!
’s new poetry book is available for pre-order from ARP!
Ben Robinson’s As Is is a study in place, the town of Hamilton Ontario, considering what it means to be connected to or attempt a connection to place as a settler. Many of the poems function as counter-histories, reading the local history and extracting details that get glossed over elsewhere: the first public building being a prison, the public hangings, the botched first treaty. Other poems are situated in the present, the personal, and look at how these founding errors ring through into the present, for both the individual and the community.
As Is searches for alternative frames for defining a local identity: expanding the sense of time to include the prehistoric, the fossil record of mammoth and wapiti in the area, and expanding the sense of place to consider the treaty boundary as a possible framework for understanding the region. Unusually for a book of poetry, it attempts reckoning with actual historical record.
’s Ottawa book launch!
rob mclennan's clever substackOTTAWA BOOK LAUNCH: rob mclennan’s On Beauty: stories (University of Alberta Press)Wednesday, September 25, 2024 : 7pm (opens at 6pm if you want to have dinner first…Read morea month ago · 2 likes · rob mclennanSMLTA contributor Stephen Humphrey on three classic sword dramas from Japan in
Eyes That See In the DarkSamurai veritéSeven Samurai…Read more16 days ago · Stephen HumphreyWhat I’m Listening ToSamira Mohyeddin interviews Kagiso Lesego Molope:
Hollay Ghadery on Short Story Today!
Nathan Whitlock interviews SMLTA contributor Deborah Dundas for What Happened Next:
Read Who Knew What About Alice Munro in The WalrusWhat I’m WatchingA couple of weeks ago, Whitlock spoke to writer and journalist Deborah Dundas, formerly the books editor for the Toronto Star and now one of its opinion editors. The occasion for the interview was Dundas’s first book, On Class, published by Biblioasis in 2023. But the two began by talking about Andrea Robin Skinner’s memoir that exposed her stepfather’s sexual abuse and Alice Munro’s knowledge of it—a story Dundas edited for the Star.
Living In The Wake: Honoring The Work of Christina Sharpe
To tune out of life, I’ve been watching Hacks, and it’s fun.
What good shows are you watching these days.
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September 6, 2024
Smells Like 1985
This evening, I went outside my apartment to throw out some garbage, and for some reason in this one spot, it smelled exactly like 1985.
This was a very shocking occurrence. I couldn’t even believe it myself, so I went inside and came back out to see if was I mistaken, but I was not.
It did in fact smell like 1985 in this exact spot.
Make of that what you will.
Maybe I have just discovered some kind of time traveling or I’m losing my mind.
Has this happened to you before?
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September 1, 2024
Short Story Today Podcast
I was thrilled to be a guest on Jon DiSavino’s podcast Short Story Today to discuss my debut story collection, Anecdotes.
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From Short Story Today:
There's a lot on Canadian author Kathryn Mockler's mind when it comes to what sorts of things the future might hold. In her hybrid collection Anecdotes (Book*hug Press), she channels her anxiety about the planet into bold, original, and surprisingly humorous works that take aim at the indifference surrounding us in these perilous times. We read four stories from the section of the book titled My Dream House.
A new issue of Send My Love to Anyone will be coming soon. In the meantime, catch up on Issue 39.
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August 28, 2024
Laughing Crying
The other day, we were in the car laughing at something stupid. I laughed harder than I have in years, the kind of laughing where you can't breathe, have to pee a little with tears forming in your eyes.
In one moment the laughing subsided, in the next it ignited like a fire.
After a few rounds of this laughing, I suddenly began to sob so loudly and uncontrollably, we had to pull over until I calmed down.
Of course I Googled what diseases make you laugh and cry.
I found some, but also I could just be really sad or really really happy to be laughing.
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August 18, 2024
Horror Movie
To me these flowers look like they’re in a horror movie watching unspeakable things unfold, alarmed but mute.
