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May 9, 2019
NMA 2019
Last week, I found out that one of my articles for enRoute magazine was nominated for a National Magazine Award (I didn’t even know it had been submitted). I’m stoked. In November 2017, I got to travel to Austin, Texas […]
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May 1, 2019
Blue Met this week
Blue Metropolis started last night. I’ve been meaning to write about it for some time, but keep putting it off. The last few months have been a downhill toboggan ride with all eyes focused on the destination: reading, emails, scripts, […]
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March 17, 2019
Pluto on The Next Chapter
The book has been out for five years now, so it’s always nice when someone draws attention to it again. So you can imagine how thrilled I was to see Victor Dwyer compare my book to Andrew Sean Greer’s Pulitzer […]
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October 8, 2018
The Violet Letter mailing list
Like so many others, I’m getting sick of Facebook. I keep flirting with the idea of cancelling my account, but I can’t (at least not now). Facebook has also been making it difficult for me to reach Violet Hour members […]
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September 8, 2018
Violet Hour Book Club
So, I’m starting a book club. The Violet Hour Book Club will meet (hopefully) four times a year to discuss modern or classic works of LGBTQ literature. Ideally, the author will also join us (either in person, or by Skype). […]
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September 2, 2018
Outside the Margins: Community, Representation and Resilience
Another panel I curated for last year’s Violet Metropolis, the LGBTQ leg of the Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival, was this one where three Canadian writers spoke about their new books and the power and responsibility they feel in writing about […]
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August 11, 2018
Hard to Imagine: Tom Waugh on Teaching as Activism
Last April, I curated Violet Metropolis, an LGBTQ leg of Montreal’s Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival. It was a career highlight of mine: five events, 15 writers, working with partners like Never Apart, Air Canada, Arsenal Pulp Press, Concordia University […]
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June 13, 2018
Behind the seams at the Austin International Drag Festival
I never feel more like a journalist than when I am on assignment for enRoute magazine. I suppose it’s as close to what I hoped a career in journalism would be: Researching a story, pitching it to an editor, booking […]
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April 9, 2018
#Writeyoung: The first characters I remember creating
To raise awareness of the QWF’s new Literary Prize for Young Writers (ages 16-24), we’re asking people to share online the first characters they remember creating using #writeyoung. The first I remember creating were a ragtag bunch of space cowboys […]
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March 19, 2018
Violet Metropolis
Once again, I had the pleasure of programming an LGBTQ series at Blue Metropolis, Montreal’s International Literary Festival. The event takes place from April 26-29, 2018, and includes support from partners Air Canada and Never Apart. On the menu: on-stage […]
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