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March 25, 2015
Bestfriendforever's New Merzing!
Here's a nicely informativeness on the BookThug blog about Jake Kennedy's poetry artifact!
MERZ STRUCTURE PLAY CHILDREN BURNT
And on the Goodreads for quick want!
Merz Structure No. 2 Burnt by Children at Play
MERZ STRUCTURE PLAY CHILDREN BURNT
And on the Goodreads for quick want!
Merz Structure No. 2 Burnt by Children at Play
February 3, 2015
Broken Pencil's LIFEmatch!
Hey there. Ya, you. Mwah! Have you seen this little shindig over at Broken Pencil? It's been revving, but needs some more calories thrown at its engine. Consider skimming RB's beautifully terrific poem & my goof of a story... then vote for your worst favourite! Vote semi-often, even. Hourly! you have until Sunday, February the 8th. And know that you are unsuperficially adored by the both of us! I mean, really, we love you beyond your readerness!
Broken Pencil's LIFEmatch!
Broken Pencil's LIFEmatch!
September 1, 2014
Honoured to've been Honoured!
The Rusty Toque put together two nice words about my first attempts towards inventing short fiction stories!
You can read about the contest sults and results on their real website:
THE RUSTY TOQUE!
Thunk you, Lee Henderson!
You can read about the contest sults and results on their real website:
THE RUSTY TOQUE!
Thunk you, Lee Henderson!
June 23, 2014
WRITE MY DEATH! their biography, version 1.2
Marrow-thrilled to say the latest edition of THEIR BIOGRAPHY = published here:
usable hippos
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This version also includes two new sets of instructions for contributing to the eternal manuscript, one of which is a request for my deaths.
Thanks to the hippopotamidae!
This version also includes two new sets of instructions for contributing to the eternal manuscript, one of which is a request for my deaths.
Thanks to the hippopotamidae!
April 18, 2014
March 26, 2014
Call for Entries to the 2014 John Lent Poetry Prose Award
Kalamalka Press seeks chapbook-length collections of poetry, short fiction or hybrids thereof for its second annual John Lent Poetry Prose Award! Entrants should be residents of Canada and in the early stages of their writing careers, having not published more than two full-length books. The winning work will be published in a limited fine-press edition by Kalamalka Press.
guidelines
• Manuscripts should be double-spaced in a legible 12-point font and span no more than 15 single-sided pages.
• Please include your name, mailing address and email on a separate cover page, and place only the title and page numbers on every page.
• Excerpts from the manuscript may be previously published in periodicals, but should not yet have appeared in a trade collection.
• The competition is open to poetry, short prose narratives or any combination of the two.
Please do not send work in translation.
• Manuscripts should be submitted on plain 8.5” × 11” paper, fastened either with a staple or clip, and will be recycled unless accompanied by a return self-addressed stamped envelope.
entry fee
• $10 for each manuscript. Writers may enter as many times as they wish. Please make cheques out to Okanagan College Foundation.
prizes
• The winner receives $500.00 and ten percent of the book’s print-run.
deadline
• All entries must be postmarked between March 15 and May 15, 2014.
• Submissions received outside of this time frame will not be considered.
• The winner will be announced by July 1, 2014, and published during the subsequent
academic year.
contact
Send submissions to
The John Lent Poetry Prose Award
c/o Okanagan College
7000 College Way
Vernon, BC V1B 2n5
Direct queries to the contest coordinator, Kevin McPherson: kmcpherson@okanagan.bc.ca
guidelines
• Manuscripts should be double-spaced in a legible 12-point font and span no more than 15 single-sided pages.
• Please include your name, mailing address and email on a separate cover page, and place only the title and page numbers on every page.
• Excerpts from the manuscript may be previously published in periodicals, but should not yet have appeared in a trade collection.
• The competition is open to poetry, short prose narratives or any combination of the two.
Please do not send work in translation.
• Manuscripts should be submitted on plain 8.5” × 11” paper, fastened either with a staple or clip, and will be recycled unless accompanied by a return self-addressed stamped envelope.
entry fee
• $10 for each manuscript. Writers may enter as many times as they wish. Please make cheques out to Okanagan College Foundation.
prizes
• The winner receives $500.00 and ten percent of the book’s print-run.
deadline
• All entries must be postmarked between March 15 and May 15, 2014.
• Submissions received outside of this time frame will not be considered.
• The winner will be announced by July 1, 2014, and published during the subsequent
academic year.
contact
Send submissions to
The John Lent Poetry Prose Award
c/o Okanagan College
7000 College Way
Vernon, BC V1B 2n5
Direct queries to the contest coordinator, Kevin McPherson: kmcpherson@okanagan.bc.ca
January 29, 2014
seventh supra-goodreads blogging posting: Chris Alexander (Troll Thread, 2012)
I'm lovin' it!
This collection is a single serving spread from February 6th to March 4th in reverse gastro-chronology of the tweetle-dumb! Amassing = amazing. Mass produced fast-food-for-thought.
Published by the inimical Troll Thread collective, which offers such titles as Nicolas Mugavero's Instructions for Killing Your Wife and Sarah Dowling's Birds and Bees, Chris Alexander's McNugget offers readers a farmload of domestic lay-writers. This book features several recognizable characters from pop culture myths, such as Chef Boyargee, Justin Bieber, Asia McDonald, Conana OBrien, and George Washington as Chicken McNugget for sale by some Kentucky woman on Ebay.
If you like to have your drumsticks licked clean, this book is for you. Its infinitely nested hashtags and RTs will put dimethylpolysiloxane right inside your digestive track. Nutritional Data: over 1 billion served.
The long winter season has you feeling cooped up? Just dip this collection into a vat of honey mustard sauce and beak away!
This collection is a single serving spread from February 6th to March 4th in reverse gastro-chronology of the tweetle-dumb! Amassing = amazing. Mass produced fast-food-for-thought.
Published by the inimical Troll Thread collective, which offers such titles as Nicolas Mugavero's Instructions for Killing Your Wife and Sarah Dowling's Birds and Bees, Chris Alexander's McNugget offers readers a farmload of domestic lay-writers. This book features several recognizable characters from pop culture myths, such as Chef Boyargee, Justin Bieber, Asia McDonald, Conana OBrien, and George Washington as Chicken McNugget for sale by some Kentucky woman on Ebay.
If you like to have your drumsticks licked clean, this book is for you. Its infinitely nested hashtags and RTs will put dimethylpolysiloxane right inside your digestive track. Nutritional Data: over 1 billion served.
The long winter season has you feeling cooped up? Just dip this collection into a vat of honey mustard sauce and beak away!
July 31, 2013
Calgary Poet Destroys Kalamalka Press’s Second Annual Chapbook Award!
Kalamalka Press is heart-thrilled to announce that the second annual John Lent Poetry-Prose Award goes to Calgary writer Nikki Sheppy.
Her work, Grrrlhood: a ludic suite, was selected from nearly forty manuscripts.
“It was a wonderful and challenging process this time ’round,” says Kevin McPherson, one of the judges and editors of Kalamalka Press. “We had so many muscly entrees that the shortlist ended up being quite long.”
Honorable mentions go to Natalie Simpson for her work, Surge, and Ben Ladouceur for Telegram from the Seventeenth Arrondissement.
“Reading Sheppy’s poems ionized our molecules. They marble lived experiences within raw, fearless and playful linguistic calisthenics,” note the judges, three local writers and teachers, Laisha Rosnau, Jake Kennedy and Kevin McPherson.
Grrrlhood was written in a “spirit of derring-do” and by having “a really great time trying out different literary games and styles, allowing myself to go astray as much as possible,” says Sheppy. This will be her first published collection of poetry, which she finished while attending the Banff Centre Writing Studio.
The honourarium for the winner has increased this year from $100 to $500. The chapbook will be designed by English professor and award-winning bookmaker, Jason Dewinetz, and letterpress printed by students in Okanagan College’s Writing and Publishing Diploma program. Sheppy is familiar with Dewinetz’s work as a bookmaker through Greenboathouse Press and confesses, “I love the tactility and attentive design of letterpress books, which continue to seduce readers into an engagement with the materiality of literature.”
Last year’s winner, Ariel Gordon’s How to Make a Collage, sold out within two weeks.
Her work, Grrrlhood: a ludic suite, was selected from nearly forty manuscripts.
“It was a wonderful and challenging process this time ’round,” says Kevin McPherson, one of the judges and editors of Kalamalka Press. “We had so many muscly entrees that the shortlist ended up being quite long.”
Honorable mentions go to Natalie Simpson for her work, Surge, and Ben Ladouceur for Telegram from the Seventeenth Arrondissement.
“Reading Sheppy’s poems ionized our molecules. They marble lived experiences within raw, fearless and playful linguistic calisthenics,” note the judges, three local writers and teachers, Laisha Rosnau, Jake Kennedy and Kevin McPherson.
Grrrlhood was written in a “spirit of derring-do” and by having “a really great time trying out different literary games and styles, allowing myself to go astray as much as possible,” says Sheppy. This will be her first published collection of poetry, which she finished while attending the Banff Centre Writing Studio.
The honourarium for the winner has increased this year from $100 to $500. The chapbook will be designed by English professor and award-winning bookmaker, Jason Dewinetz, and letterpress printed by students in Okanagan College’s Writing and Publishing Diploma program. Sheppy is familiar with Dewinetz’s work as a bookmaker through Greenboathouse Press and confesses, “I love the tactility and attentive design of letterpress books, which continue to seduce readers into an engagement with the materiality of literature.”
Last year’s winner, Ariel Gordon’s How to Make a Collage, sold out within two weeks.
July 19, 2013
sixth supragoodreads blogging posting: American Psycho by Mimi Cabell and Jason Huff (Traumawien, 2012)
Please to enjoy this book of poetry and electronic advertisement correspondence. What a killer rebranding of a classic slapstick American humour genre!
The premise is surprise and language relocated from the novel to the email to the capitalism to the footnote to the eye of the reader! Can you follow the trace? The urgent blood? The dripping irony? Here's a forensic from page 165:
"420. Crest(r) Whitestrips Coupon, Save $10 Now on Crest(r) Whitestrips. Get Whiter Teeth for the Holidays!, Coupons.3DWhite.com/Whitestrips"
A riot of weaponized language to the skull! Red rum! Here's another doozy:
"583. Private Label Water, Private Label Bottled Water As Low As .33 per bottle., www.BottledWaterStore.com 584. Cutstom Label Water , Easy and effective advertising Cases as low as $5.99 ea, www.whitewaternow.com 585. LIFE Water Ionizers(tm), New 600 watts - 11 Large Plates. Optional 4 Internal Filters., www.LifeIonziers.com/Water-Ionizers"
If nationalism is an manufacturer of honesty and sincerity equals a blind wanting, then why not let this newfangled, hyper-visible Patrick Batemen guide you through this mega-mall of opportunity! Make a noo and improved you through the smiles of buying low and selling even lower! Believe me, this book object has purchase!
I, for one and truly, am psyched for Cabell and Huff's really own American Psycho!
Own it today!
The premise is surprise and language relocated from the novel to the email to the capitalism to the footnote to the eye of the reader! Can you follow the trace? The urgent blood? The dripping irony? Here's a forensic from page 165:
"420. Crest(r) Whitestrips Coupon, Save $10 Now on Crest(r) Whitestrips. Get Whiter Teeth for the Holidays!, Coupons.3DWhite.com/Whitestrips"
A riot of weaponized language to the skull! Red rum! Here's another doozy:
"583. Private Label Water, Private Label Bottled Water As Low As .33 per bottle., www.BottledWaterStore.com 584. Cutstom Label Water , Easy and effective advertising Cases as low as $5.99 ea, www.whitewaternow.com 585. LIFE Water Ionizers(tm), New 600 watts - 11 Large Plates. Optional 4 Internal Filters., www.LifeIonziers.com/Water-Ionizers"
If nationalism is an manufacturer of honesty and sincerity equals a blind wanting, then why not let this newfangled, hyper-visible Patrick Batemen guide you through this mega-mall of opportunity! Make a noo and improved you through the smiles of buying low and selling even lower! Believe me, this book object has purchase!
I, for one and truly, am psyched for Cabell and Huff's really own American Psycho!
Own it today!
July 7, 2013
Cooking the Books Version Episode 3 feat. the Post-human Jason Christie
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... click your mouse device on this link here for watching the video spoofs & glories:
making the corny pop! with his nukey sidekick, the B&D meekrowave!
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produced for & originally aired @ E-Poetry fest 2013, Kingston upon Thames, yo!
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... click your mouse device on this link here for watching the video spoofs & glories:
making the corny pop! with his nukey sidekick, the B&D meekrowave!
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produced for & originally aired @ E-Poetry fest 2013, Kingston upon Thames, yo!
