Gatherings | Issue 29

My debut story collection Anecdotes is officially out in the world!

I had a wonderful launch in Victoria with my dear friend Michael V. Smith and heading on a multi-city book tour starting in October!

This was my first public event since Covid, and I was nervous, but it turned out well. I’m always so surprised and touched when people show up to readings! Thanks to everyone who came out!

Anecdotes makes on the Toronto Star’s fall reading list and is a September Book of the Month over at Vol. 1 Brooklyn

UVic Writing Professors (myself included) are reading on Thursday September 28, 2023

Recommended Readings, Podcasts, Events, and Music

Any Angled Light’s self-titled album is now out!

Tracks from Any Angled Light on Future Ecologies

Here are some Victoria Festival of Authors events I’m looking forward to:

Susan Sanford Blades, Joseph Kakwinokanasum, Sonnet L’Abbé, Tim Lilburn - October 11

Alicia Elliott, Tyler Pennock, and Drew Hayden Taylor - October 15

Jenn Ashton, Susan Mockler, and Nikki Reimer - October 15

I am currently reading two story collections which I love Tell Me Pleasant Things About Immortality by Lindsay Wong, I Hear You’re Rich by Diane Williams, and On Community by Casey Plett

Beth Nguyen on Taylor Swift, Edith Wharton, and Creating a Double Perspective, Lit Hub

On the rise of literary friendships, Esquire

12 Literary Podcasts for Writers and Readers, Electric Literature

Let it Go by Chelene Knight is available for pre-order.

Seven types of rest, Guardian

Madeleine Thien Reads Yoko Ogawa, The New Yorker Fiction Podcast

The Work: Straight Talk on Method and Craft with writer and Feldenkrais practitioner, Maria Meindl (online and in person)

Fawn Parker Interviews Claudia Dey, Hazlitt

What does it mean to belong? Casey Plett in conversation with Conversation with Madeleine Thien and Avi Cummings, Lit Hub

OVER/EXPOSED is accepting submissions

If you are in Victoria, check out the Wild Prose Reading Series on Monday September 25, 2023 with Ali Bryan, Stephanie Harrington, and Chelsea Wakelyn.

Octavia Butler’s Advice on Writing

An exciting new anthology edited by Nancy Lee and Marita Dachsel comes out in October: Sharp Notions: Essays from the Stitching Life

Independent journalism saved the Greenbelt from development, The Narwhal

Tobias Carroll’s playlist for his novel “Ex-Members”, Largehearted Boy

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