Thunder Bay Lit News

Submissions wanted. A note from Taslim Alani about the zine The Nexus.
Hey Joan! The Nexus is up and running! We're looking for submissions for our first edition, which will be about Take Back the Night.

Tell us what this event means to you, what you think about it, or anything else! You can submit your work in any form you would like--art, poetry, short stories, prose, or anything else! We're asking for submissions to be in by November 21st...this gives you an opportunity to attend the event and reflect on it. If you have any questions, feel free to message me here or email me at taslim.alani@gmail.com
We look forward to hearing from you!

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Just in time for Christmas.  Thunder Bay's Jackie D'Acre's latest novel Foreclosure is now available at Chapters.  Head for the back wall of local authors.  A fine mystery set in New Orleans.  Please note: The title of the novel "Foreclosure" was changed to "Hot Blooded Mystery" in 2018.

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A note from Amy Jones the admin assistant at NOWW.  Dear Joan, Just to let you  know, our e-Writer in Residence Elizabeth Ruth's novel, Ten Good Seconds of Silence, is now available for purchase at Northern Woman's Bookstore.   South Court Street. Definitely another Christmas idea.

Elizabeth providing critiques to local writers. 

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A call from Martin Hicks.  His delightful book of poetry In the Realm of Fantasy: Poems, Mainly Narrative is in a second printing.  Cost 20$ at The Book Shelf on May Street and Books, Sportscards, & Collectibles at 191 Wolseley St.   He also tells us a second book, The Good Bartender and Other Concoctions, also fully illustrated, will soon be available.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Looking for your True Winter Tales

Can you smell it in the air? Before long, winter will be here… As delighted – or dejected – as you may be by that statement, you must admit that Canadians feel passionately about the season. You either love it, or you hate it. And whether you were born in the snowy depths of a Manitoba blizzard, or immigrated to Toronto and saw your first snowfall only as an adult, everyone in this country has a personal story to share about winter.

And we want yours!

This November, Canada Writes is hosting a Winter Tales Writing Challenge (in association with the Canada Council for the Arts and The Massey Lectures). And we’ve got $1,000 to give away!

Read on!

Wonderful so to see so many people attending the readings around town. NOWW had a good crowd at the Brodie Library to hear Sharon Irvine read a poem as well as a hilarious short story. Great stories and book excerpts followed including an excerpt from Foreclosure by Jackie D'Acre.  (the title of the book Foreclosure was changed to Hot Blooded Murder in 2018)

Several people said Ivan Coyote is one of Canada's premier teller of tales. She was at the Northern Woman's Bookstore on Court St. November 28. On December 2, Erin Stewart and others presented poetry to an appreciative audience at the same bookshop. Erin took first prize in NOWW's 2008 poetry contest. Below a poem by Erin.

Tracks
You left the same way
you came, across a pathway
in my backyard.

Combatting insomnia
I'd rotate my bed to
face the window, set
my feet in the daylight
to distract my mourn

But waking now I see
a world ahead without you.

Owning more energy, I might
Leap out the window into
the bird-marked snow
where your last ones have disappeared

(Poem, Tracks, previously published in 807: A Northwestern Ontario Literary Review.)