Here are this year's Man Booker nominees. It makes a fabulous reading list. But! Alas! No Canadians on the list this year. I have only read one of the books nominated, Colm Toibin's Brooklyn which I enjoyed very much.
I like Anita Byatt as well. Byatt's The Children's Book, which she launched in North America at Montreal's Blue Metropolis Festival, is vying for the prize. And you never can go wrong with William Trevor.
The other nominees are:
Adam Foulds, The Quickening Maze
Sarah Hall, How to Paint a Dead Man
Samantha Harvey, The Wilderness
James Lever, Me Cheeta
Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall
Simon Mawer, The Glass Room
Ed O'Loughlin, Not Untrue & Not Unkind
James Scudamore, Heliopolis
Colm Toibin, Brooklyn
William Trevor, Love and Summer
Sarah Waters, The Little Stranger
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Monday, July 27, 2009
Submission wanted - Gender Outlaws.
*GENDER OUTLAWS: THE NEXT GENERATION wants to collect work that represents a quantum leap forward in thinking and talking about gender and the gender binary, in the same way Gender Outlaw did almost twenty years ago.
So blow us away.
Bring the smart, bring the sexy, blind us with science, break the gender barrier, shine a bright light (or a disco ball) on the whole gender situation. Tell us about your future, what you imagine, how you want things to go and what you (and your friends) intend to do about it. Think big.We’ll look at whatever you have for us – essays, graphic art, interviews/conversations, haiku, rants – as long as you’re thinking smart and fresh about sex and gender (and being an outlaw, of course).
People of any identity are encouraged to submit work. This means you – yes, you!
The Details*
Deadline: Sept 1 (early submissions are encouraged).
Submissions should be unpublished; query if you have a reprint that you think we’ll swoon for. Please query first for pieces over 4,000 words.
Submit as a Word document or black/white JPEG (no files over 2MB).
Please include a cover letter with a brief bio and full contact information (mailing address, phone number, pseudonym if appropriate) when you submit. Submissions without complete contact information will be deleted unread. Payment will be $50 and 2 copies of the book upon publication in Fall 2010. Contributors retain the rights to their pieces. Send your submission as an attachment to genderoutlawsnextgeneration@gmail.com.~please forward/repost lots and lots, as appropriate~
Read more: http://sexgenderbody.com/content/gender-outlaws-next-generation#ixzz0LcvreZ1I
Saturday, July 25, 2009
SELF ESTEEM
Taking care of myself
feels like a waste of time.
Better to warm touch feed
another but as I drink water
stretch exercise eatmy vegges
get massage i wondeer
If self esteem can grow
simply slowly inexorably
from self-care?
by Barbara Bennett
feels like a waste of time.
Better to warm touch feed
another but as I drink water
stretch exercise eatmy vegges
get massage i wondeer
If self esteem can grow
simply slowly inexorably
from self-care?
by Barbara Bennett
Saturday, July 18, 2009
Haiku Contest
The Thunder Bay International Fine Arts Association together with the Lakehead Japanese Cultural Association takes great pride in presenting a poetry competition.
There will be $1,000 in prizes and the chance to be published.Anyone other than people involved in the administration of the contestor judging may enter. Entries must be your work in English.Contestants must be the sole copyright owner.
For contest rules and entry forms go to:http://sites.google.com/site/tbifaa/Home/natsu-haiku-summer
There will be $1,000 in prizes and the chance to be published.Anyone other than people involved in the administration of the contestor judging may enter. Entries must be your work in English.Contestants must be the sole copyright owner.
For contest rules and entry forms go to:http://sites.google.com/site/tbifaa/Home/natsu-haiku-summer
Summer Haiku Contest
Thunder Bay International Arts Association
97 Algoma Street South
Thunder Bay, Ontario
Canada, P7B 3B7For further information, email vinorosso26@hotmail.com or dew.the@gmail.com or phone 807 344-3831Entries must be received by 5.00 pm. July 29, 2009.
Judging will becompleted and prizes awarded by Aug 3rd, 2009.Thunder Bay International Fine Arts Association is a non profitorganization that promotes the arts and artists in NorthwesternOntario.
Charitable no.1756782
Saturday, July 11, 2009
IT's Here and It's Great!!
807 -A Northwestern Ontraio Literary Review. What a professional looking mag. And the content. I am working through it slowly. I loved Mary Frost's poems ( I always do), Sue Blott's surreal short short story, and Heather McLeod's searing memoir. Speaking of surreal, check out Duncan Weller's graphic story.
Do we have talent in Thunder Bay or what?
Copies of 807 are available by calling Deborah at 807 345-0353 or at the following Thunder Bay retailers: Northern Woman’s Bookstore, the Finnish Bookstore, the International House of Tea, Kelly’s Nutrition, Villedge Art, and Chapters.
You may also order copies below. The price is $8 to pick up a copy in Thunder Bay or $11 to have it mailed to you.
Do we have talent in Thunder Bay or what?
Copies of 807 are available by calling Deborah at 807 345-0353 or at the following Thunder Bay retailers: Northern Woman’s Bookstore, the Finnish Bookstore, the International House of Tea, Kelly’s Nutrition, Villedge Art, and Chapters.
You may also order copies below. The price is $8 to pick up a copy in Thunder Bay or $11 to have it mailed to you.
Wanted: Writer in Residence,Saskatoon
Attention Writers, Poets, Illustrators,
Applications are invited from creative writers for the term position of Saskatoon Public Library/Canada Council for the Arts Writer in Residence from September 1, 2010 to May 31, 2011. Remuneration: up to $30,000 for a nine-month term. Criteria are based on Canada Council guidelines; position subject to Canada Council funding.
Applications must be received by 5 p.m., November 2, 2009.
For more details visit http://www.saskatoonlibrary.ca/UserFiles/File/Services/WriterInResidence/WiR_2010-11.pdf
Applications are invited from creative writers for the term position of Saskatoon Public Library/Canada Council for the Arts Writer in Residence from September 1, 2010 to May 31, 2011. Remuneration: up to $30,000 for a nine-month term. Criteria are based on Canada Council guidelines; position subject to Canada Council funding.
Applications must be received by 5 p.m., November 2, 2009.
For more details visit http://www.saskatoonlibrary.ca/UserFiles/File/Services/WriterInResidence/WiR_2010-11.pdf
Summer Fiction news 2009
Some suggestions from the Northern Women's Bookshop
The long-awaited second novel by Anne Michaels (author of Fugitive Pieces) is finally here. THE WINTER VAULT “is a stunningly, richly layered, and timeless novel that is everything we could hope for. Set in Canada and Egypt, and with flashbacks to England and Poland, THE WINTER VAULT is a spellbinding love story that juxtaposes momentous historical events with the most intimate moments of individual lives..... Breathtaking, vivid in its exploration of both the physical and emotional worlds of its characters, intensely moving and lyrical, THE WINTER VAULT is a radiant work of fiction and contains all the elements for which Anne Michaels is celebrated.”
Mavis Gallant is one of the greatest short story writers of our time, but I am afraid that younger Canadians know little of her work. Gallant grew up in Montreal and was a leading journalist, but moved to Paris in 1950 to write short stories, which she has done ever since. Still writing at 86 years of age, her latest published book is GOING ASHORE, which reveals a treasure-trove of little known stories, many never before published, and some from books now out of print. Including conventional stories, satirical pieces, long short stories and short-short stories, “[the stories] and their settings, are delineated here with dramatic flair, dazzlingly precise language, dialogue that sounds in the reader’s ear, and above all, a vivid understanding of the human condition.” Fans of Mavis Gallant will love GOING ASHORE. If you haven’t read Gallant before please do so.
Two books of particular interest to Northwestern Ontario readers are: JACKFISH: The Vanishing Village, by Sarah Burns, a thought-provoking and emotionally moving story.
Jackfish may have disappeared from the map, but Burns makes it, and the narrator Clemence, unforgettable. Fort William in the 1940s is the setting for THE FACTORY VOICE, by Jeannette Lynes, and the military aircraft factory, the “lady” engineer, the Red Finns, and the geography are certainly recognizable to all interested in our community’s past. Lynes, a well-respected poet, was a Lakehead University English department faculty member for a number of years. Her most recent poetry collection is The New Blue Distance.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, a Nigerian writer, burst onto the literacy scene with her remarkable debut novel Purple Hibicus, followed by Half of a Yellow Sun, which is now considered a classic. In her most recent book THE THING AROUND YOUR NECK, “her most intimate and seamlessly crafted work to date, Adichie turns her penetrating eye on not only Nigeria but America, in twelve dazzling stories that explore the ties that bind men and women, parents and children, Africa and the United States.
Searing and profound, suffused with beauty, sorrow, and longing, these stories map, with Adichie’s signature emotional wisdom, the collision of two cultures and the deeply human struggle to reconcile them.”
Leona Gom, a British Columbia writer, is author of thirteen books of fiction and poetry. Her latest is THE EXCLUSION PRINCIPLE. Set in Canada and Hawaii, “Gom gives us a privileged window onto the world of astronomy. Sharp and witty, filled with perceptive observance of human nature, THE EXCLUSION PRINCIPLE evokes a singular impression of layered worlds that lingers long after the final page is turned.”
THE TOSS OF A LEMON, by Padma Viswanathan tells the story of Sivakami, a captivating Brahmin girl-child married at ten and a widowed mother of two by eighteen. Drawing inspiration from her own extraordinary family history, Padma Viswanathan takes the reader to the center of a world that was always little known beyond its borders- and is rapidly vanishing. THE TOSS OF A LEMON is heartbreaking and exhilarating, profoundly exotic and yet utterly recognizable in evoking the tensions that change brings to every family’s doorstep. January magazine says “Astonishing. Brilliant. Beautiful... Like the very best novels, at its core, THE TOSS OF A LEMON teaches us about ourselves.” Padma Viswanathan is a fiction writer, playwright and journalist from Edmonton.
Art connoisseurs and readers who were fascinated with Girl in Hyacinth Blue will be interested in Susan Vreeland’s LUNCHEON OF THE BOATING PARTY. Can Renoir’s famous painting be successfully turned into a novel? Yes, say many critics.
“In LUNCHEON OF THE BOATING PARTY, Susan Vreeland, an exquisite and passionate chronicler of art throughout history, takes the reader through the process of painting by way of Renoir, the many models in the painting, and the relationships he had with them—a complex mix of paint, color, and texture as well as personalities of the myriad men and women in his life. The progress is always the main issue, revealing the artist’s difficulty and ultimately his triumph, but the models lives display such French cultural issues as the residual trauma of the Franco-Prussian war and the Commune, changes in marriage traditions, the rise of feminism, the decline of old institutions, the yearning for personal expression, and the explosion of creativity in the arts: journalism, music and literature.”
Lauded as a very entertaining and funny book is GODS BEHAVING BADLY, by Marie Phillips. Critics say: “A joyful frolic... Phillips covers all her unlikely bases with a deftly-woven toga of plausibility, making suspension of disbelief both easy and pleasurable”; “Marie Phillips’s first novel places Aphrodite, Artemis, and Apollo in the unique category of gods-who’ve-fallen-on-hard-times, with charming results”...
GODS BEHAVING BADLY is that rare thing: a charming, funny, utterly original novel that satisfies both the head and the heart.”
The long-awaited second novel by Anne Michaels (author of Fugitive Pieces) is finally here. THE WINTER VAULT “is a stunningly, richly layered, and timeless novel that is everything we could hope for. Set in Canada and Egypt, and with flashbacks to England and Poland, THE WINTER VAULT is a spellbinding love story that juxtaposes momentous historical events with the most intimate moments of individual lives..... Breathtaking, vivid in its exploration of both the physical and emotional worlds of its characters, intensely moving and lyrical, THE WINTER VAULT is a radiant work of fiction and contains all the elements for which Anne Michaels is celebrated.”
Mavis Gallant is one of the greatest short story writers of our time, but I am afraid that younger Canadians know little of her work. Gallant grew up in Montreal and was a leading journalist, but moved to Paris in 1950 to write short stories, which she has done ever since. Still writing at 86 years of age, her latest published book is GOING ASHORE, which reveals a treasure-trove of little known stories, many never before published, and some from books now out of print. Including conventional stories, satirical pieces, long short stories and short-short stories, “[the stories] and their settings, are delineated here with dramatic flair, dazzlingly precise language, dialogue that sounds in the reader’s ear, and above all, a vivid understanding of the human condition.” Fans of Mavis Gallant will love GOING ASHORE. If you haven’t read Gallant before please do so.
Two books of particular interest to Northwestern Ontario readers are: JACKFISH: The Vanishing Village, by Sarah Burns, a thought-provoking and emotionally moving story.
Jackfish may have disappeared from the map, but Burns makes it, and the narrator Clemence, unforgettable. Fort William in the 1940s is the setting for THE FACTORY VOICE, by Jeannette Lynes, and the military aircraft factory, the “lady” engineer, the Red Finns, and the geography are certainly recognizable to all interested in our community’s past. Lynes, a well-respected poet, was a Lakehead University English department faculty member for a number of years. Her most recent poetry collection is The New Blue Distance.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, a Nigerian writer, burst onto the literacy scene with her remarkable debut novel Purple Hibicus, followed by Half of a Yellow Sun, which is now considered a classic. In her most recent book THE THING AROUND YOUR NECK, “her most intimate and seamlessly crafted work to date, Adichie turns her penetrating eye on not only Nigeria but America, in twelve dazzling stories that explore the ties that bind men and women, parents and children, Africa and the United States.
Searing and profound, suffused with beauty, sorrow, and longing, these stories map, with Adichie’s signature emotional wisdom, the collision of two cultures and the deeply human struggle to reconcile them.”
Leona Gom, a British Columbia writer, is author of thirteen books of fiction and poetry. Her latest is THE EXCLUSION PRINCIPLE. Set in Canada and Hawaii, “Gom gives us a privileged window onto the world of astronomy. Sharp and witty, filled with perceptive observance of human nature, THE EXCLUSION PRINCIPLE evokes a singular impression of layered worlds that lingers long after the final page is turned.”
THE TOSS OF A LEMON, by Padma Viswanathan tells the story of Sivakami, a captivating Brahmin girl-child married at ten and a widowed mother of two by eighteen. Drawing inspiration from her own extraordinary family history, Padma Viswanathan takes the reader to the center of a world that was always little known beyond its borders- and is rapidly vanishing. THE TOSS OF A LEMON is heartbreaking and exhilarating, profoundly exotic and yet utterly recognizable in evoking the tensions that change brings to every family’s doorstep. January magazine says “Astonishing. Brilliant. Beautiful... Like the very best novels, at its core, THE TOSS OF A LEMON teaches us about ourselves.” Padma Viswanathan is a fiction writer, playwright and journalist from Edmonton.
Art connoisseurs and readers who were fascinated with Girl in Hyacinth Blue will be interested in Susan Vreeland’s LUNCHEON OF THE BOATING PARTY. Can Renoir’s famous painting be successfully turned into a novel? Yes, say many critics.
“In LUNCHEON OF THE BOATING PARTY, Susan Vreeland, an exquisite and passionate chronicler of art throughout history, takes the reader through the process of painting by way of Renoir, the many models in the painting, and the relationships he had with them—a complex mix of paint, color, and texture as well as personalities of the myriad men and women in his life. The progress is always the main issue, revealing the artist’s difficulty and ultimately his triumph, but the models lives display such French cultural issues as the residual trauma of the Franco-Prussian war and the Commune, changes in marriage traditions, the rise of feminism, the decline of old institutions, the yearning for personal expression, and the explosion of creativity in the arts: journalism, music and literature.”
Lauded as a very entertaining and funny book is GODS BEHAVING BADLY, by Marie Phillips. Critics say: “A joyful frolic... Phillips covers all her unlikely bases with a deftly-woven toga of plausibility, making suspension of disbelief both easy and pleasurable”; “Marie Phillips’s first novel places Aphrodite, Artemis, and Apollo in the unique category of gods-who’ve-fallen-on-hard-times, with charming results”...
GODS BEHAVING BADLY is that rare thing: a charming, funny, utterly original novel that satisfies both the head and the heart.”
SUMMER FICTION SALE
NORTHERN WOMAN'S BOOKSTORE
SALE - JULY 11TH TO 18TH
20% OFF ALL FICTION
50% OFF SELECTED TITLES
65 South Court St.
(across from Lot 66)
(807)344-7979
northernwoman@tbaytel.net
Hours: Wed-Sat, 11am-6pm
20% OFF ALL FICTION
50% OFF SELECTED TITLES
65 South Court St.
(across from Lot 66)
(807)344-7979
northernwoman@tbaytel.net
Hours: Wed-Sat, 11am-6pm
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