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Update on my Hidden Brook Press Anthology, They Have To Take You In
They Have To Take You In, our Indiegogo campaign for the anthology fundraiser is now closed. The book's aim is to benefit women and families in transition. We are grateful to Richard Grove at Hidden Brook Press, who is donating all royalties from sales to our beneficiary. Thanks to Gord Langill, who suggested and wrote about CMHA’s The Dana Fund, a no overhead fund applicants may use to meet any pressing needs; Tapanga Koe, for helping me put together the Indiegogo website, and the amazing authors who have contributed signed books, as well as poetry and fiction to the campaign! Our heroes include Leanne Simpson, Linda Rogers, Tim Becket, Jan Thornhill, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, and many more! I'll be posting about more of our amazing authors when I get caught up on the selection process.
This book will go ahead; HBP will cover production costs, and royalties will go to the CMHA’s Dana Fund.
We were fundraising for authors. We netted over five hundred dollars, which may not seem like much, as it was just 10% of our goal, but as we were on the flexible funding model we received our monies regardless.
I wanted to be able to pay honorariums to new authors in particular, and there is an important reason for this. Please hear me out.
As Canadian writers we are competing not just with Canadian best sellers but with US best sellers, published in far greater numbers due to the US’s higher population. Many beautiful, original and fascinating books are published in Canada each year that receive little or no attention and aren’t stocked in Chapters for a variety of reasons—a sad fact which makes it hard to reach an audience. As authors we are struggling to play a numbers game in which we often make only a dollar or two per book sold. Hence the Canadian government has created funding programs designed to help level the playing field–programs administered by the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts, among others.
When we were living on an isolated bush farm with small children, the funding I received from the CC and the OAC helped us to pay our hyrdro bills (exorbitant in a drafty, under-insulated farm house) and enabled us to eat. Eat something other than what I grew, anyway.
But there’s more.
To access funding programs, emerging writers must have three paid publications under their belts. These can be difficult to acquire–particularly in fiction.
That’s one of my aims with this anthology. I dream that somewhere, a talented, hard working writer will have work appear in They Have To Take You In. He or she will acquire that all important final paid writing credit and be eligible, for the first time, to apply for a grant. Receiving the grant, she’ll be able to spend the time to finish her first book, one that may change people’s lives.
And hers for sure.
This writer was me; she could be you or someone you know. I may never meet him or her, but that’s one of my dreams with this anthology; I want to give the gift to someone else that was given to me. I’m not sure anymore what my first three paid fiction credits even were—I could probably sort it out if I went through my archives, but I won’t be doing that today.
The Indiegogo campaign is closed but we are still accepting donations at my Gmail address via PayPal.Silvia Moreno-Garcia
This book will go ahead; HBP will cover production costs, and royalties will go to the CMHA’s Dana Fund.
We were fundraising for authors. We netted over five hundred dollars, which may not seem like much, as it was just 10% of our goal, but as we were on the flexible funding model we received our monies regardless.
I wanted to be able to pay honorariums to new authors in particular, and there is an important reason for this. Please hear me out.
As Canadian writers we are competing not just with Canadian best sellers but with US best sellers, published in far greater numbers due to the US’s higher population. Many beautiful, original and fascinating books are published in Canada each year that receive little or no attention and aren’t stocked in Chapters for a variety of reasons—a sad fact which makes it hard to reach an audience. As authors we are struggling to play a numbers game in which we often make only a dollar or two per book sold. Hence the Canadian government has created funding programs designed to help level the playing field–programs administered by the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts, among others.
When we were living on an isolated bush farm with small children, the funding I received from the CC and the OAC helped us to pay our hyrdro bills (exorbitant in a drafty, under-insulated farm house) and enabled us to eat. Eat something other than what I grew, anyway.
But there’s more.
To access funding programs, emerging writers must have three paid publications under their belts. These can be difficult to acquire–particularly in fiction.
That’s one of my aims with this anthology. I dream that somewhere, a talented, hard working writer will have work appear in They Have To Take You In. He or she will acquire that all important final paid writing credit and be eligible, for the first time, to apply for a grant. Receiving the grant, she’ll be able to spend the time to finish her first book, one that may change people’s lives.
And hers for sure.
This writer was me; she could be you or someone you know. I may never meet him or her, but that’s one of my dreams with this anthology; I want to give the gift to someone else that was given to me. I’m not sure anymore what my first three paid fiction credits even were—I could probably sort it out if I went through my archives, but I won’t be doing that today.
The Indiegogo campaign is closed but we are still accepting donations at my Gmail address via PayPal.Silvia Moreno-Garcia
TOC for They Have To Take You In
Great news!
Hidden Brook Press
publisher/editor Richard "Tai" Grove is home from his annual Canada Cuba Literary Alliance trip to Cuba. As we speak, he is working on production for the fundraiser anthology, They Have To Take You In.
Gord Langill of the CMHA has promised us an introduction--with his background in mental health as well as literature I think we can look forward to something special.
I'm excited!
We'll do an event in Peterborough, probably at The Barbeside, as well as possible launches in Toronto at Zoinks and at Cat Sass Norwood, if it's still extant by the time we go to press.
Not sure of the dates yet as they depend entirely on Tai's schedule--so please don't ask me!
Happy spring! I think we can believe it now. Except there's snow in Norwood. New snow...falling on the lake our little Ouse River has lately become...
They Have To Take You In
Fiction and Memoir
Life Skills by Jan Thornhill
The Doppelgängers by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Orange and Amber by Tapanga Koe
Murky Pinks by Georgia Fisher
Winterstorm by Barbara Ponomareff
Just Like Rain by Michelle Berry
Giiwedinong by Leanne Simpson
Foxford by Sandra Kasturi
The Missing Elephant by Robert Runté
Up, Away, Here, Gone by Andrew McDonald
A Better Closet by Mela Brown
Zhezhi by Michael Matheson
Witness by Ruth Clarke
Arnold Pepper Doesn’t Care by Joe Davies
The Corner of Crack and Ho' by P.J. Thomas
Belvedere by Margaret Slavin Dyment
Leadfoot Sally: An Excerpt from Uranium City Return by Tim Becket
Anna’s Story by Dana Tkachenko
Poetry:
About The Creation of Life On Earth by Robert Priest
McLoneliness by Ron Chase
Paper Stairs by Linda Rogers
100 Percent Acrylic by Debbie Oakun Hill
Family Tree by Colleen Anderson
Metro West by Ariel David Skelly Langen
On the Road by Daryl Salach
ode'min giizis (heart berry moon) at Couchiching First Nation by Gord Bruyere
Lethe by Donna Langevin
Hidden Brook Press
publisher/editor Richard "Tai" Grove is home from his annual Canada Cuba Literary Alliance trip to Cuba. As we speak, he is working on production for the fundraiser anthology, They Have To Take You In.
Gord Langill of the CMHA has promised us an introduction--with his background in mental health as well as literature I think we can look forward to something special.
I'm excited!
We'll do an event in Peterborough, probably at The Barbeside, as well as possible launches in Toronto at Zoinks and at Cat Sass Norwood, if it's still extant by the time we go to press.
Not sure of the dates yet as they depend entirely on Tai's schedule--so please don't ask me!
Happy spring! I think we can believe it now. Except there's snow in Norwood. New snow...falling on the lake our little Ouse River has lately become...
They Have To Take You In
Fiction and Memoir
Life Skills by Jan Thornhill
The Doppelgängers by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Orange and Amber by Tapanga Koe
Murky Pinks by Georgia Fisher
Winterstorm by Barbara Ponomareff
Just Like Rain by Michelle Berry
Giiwedinong by Leanne Simpson
Foxford by Sandra Kasturi
The Missing Elephant by Robert Runté
Up, Away, Here, Gone by Andrew McDonald
A Better Closet by Mela Brown
Zhezhi by Michael Matheson
Witness by Ruth Clarke
Arnold Pepper Doesn’t Care by Joe Davies
The Corner of Crack and Ho' by P.J. Thomas
Belvedere by Margaret Slavin Dyment
Leadfoot Sally: An Excerpt from Uranium City Return by Tim Becket
Anna’s Story by Dana Tkachenko
Poetry:
About The Creation of Life On Earth by Robert Priest
McLoneliness by Ron Chase
Paper Stairs by Linda Rogers
100 Percent Acrylic by Debbie Oakun Hill
Family Tree by Colleen Anderson
Metro West by Ariel David Skelly Langen
On the Road by Daryl Salach
ode'min giizis (heart berry moon) at Couchiching First Nation by Gord Bruyere
Lethe by Donna Langevin
They Have To Take You In: Peterborough Launch: September 11, 2014
Here it is!
Order Link for They Have To Take You In.
Book Launch, September 11, 2014
A fundraiser anthology on the theme of family, edited by Ursula Pflug and published by Hidden Brook Press.
The Theatre on King
159 King Street, Suite 120 (in the parking lot behind CRUZ/Wolf)
Peterborough, Ontario K9J 2R8
Phone (705) 930-6194
Email contact@ttok.ca
$15.00 cover charge. Contributors plus one guest each are exempt.
Audience members will receive a copy of the book, listed at $19.95.
About beneficiary the Dana Fund:
Our beneficiary, the CMHA administered Dana Fund, is a no-overhead fund benefiting women and families in transition. It was created in 2010 in honour of Dana Tkachenko, whose remarkable contribution closes the prose section of the anthology. The fund’s purpose is to help women and families in transition.
"The Dana Fund was created in July of 2010 at the Canadian Mental Health Agency (CMHA HKPR) in Peterborough Ontario, at the suggestion of friends and family who wished to make donations in her memory. Dana Tkachenko inspired many people through her own experiences of struggling against tremendous obstacles and succeeding in creating a stable and fulfilling life for herself and her family. Dana’s memory is honoured through the Dana Fund, by dedicating donations to the cause of supporting young women and families in transition, experiencing similar challenges, who could benefit from some help along the way." - Gord Langill
This is a cross-genre anthology, including mainstream, slipstream and magic realist work. Writers who have contributed fiction and poetry include both internationally published award winners and those who appear here in print for the first time. They include Michelle Berry, Silvia Moreno Garcia, Linda Rogers, Leanne Simpson, P.J. Thomas, Jan Thornhill and more. Look forward to short readings from some of our amazing contributors!
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.
"We are reading our way out of sadness." So writes Linda Rogers in her fine poem, "Paper Stairs." And as our relationship with home and family is a complicated and varied one, Ursula Pflug's Hidden Brook Press anthology They Have to Take You In, provides the reader with ample evidence of the profound complexity of blood and clan. The Welsh word "hiraeth" translates roughly as "longing for home," and yet there are those for whom home is not so positive and the fine line between being homesick and being sick of home is just as often not so fine. "I remember being put out on the street/ at the age of nine or ten/ by my father for reasons that still remain a mystery/ even to me," writes Darryl Salach in his poem, "On the Road". None of the mushy sentimentality, false memory and treacly greeting-card nostalgia for these writers-no, these writers are interested in the healing truths we tell when writers are writing their way out of sadness for the sake of love. Herein they tell the entire grumble of the story, sometimes in memoir, sometimes in fiction, sometimes in a poem, but never in the candy-coated dithyrambs that populate the pages of those 'chicken soup for the soul' books. This anthology is filled with serious truth, the kind that goes deep and heals from well within the wound. John B. Lee Poet Laureate of Brantford, Poet Laureate of Norfolk County
The book’s aim is to benefit women and families in transition. We are grateful to Richard Grove at Hidden Brook Press, who is donating a percentage of royalties from sales to our beneficiary. Thanks to Gordon Langill, who suggested and wrote about CMHA’s The Dana Fund, a no overhead fund applicants may use to meet any pressing needs; Tapanga Koe, for helping put together the Indiegogo website, and the amazing authors who have contributed signed books to the campaign, and/or poetry and fiction to the book! Our heroes include Leanne Simpson, Linda Rogers, Tim Becket, Jan Thornhill, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, and many more!
Order Link for They Have To Take You In.
Book Launch, September 11, 2014
A fundraiser anthology on the theme of family, edited by Ursula Pflug and published by Hidden Brook Press.
The Theatre on King
159 King Street, Suite 120 (in the parking lot behind CRUZ/Wolf)
Peterborough, Ontario K9J 2R8
Phone (705) 930-6194
Email contact@ttok.ca
$15.00 cover charge. Contributors plus one guest each are exempt.
Audience members will receive a copy of the book, listed at $19.95.
About beneficiary the Dana Fund:
Our beneficiary, the CMHA administered Dana Fund, is a no-overhead fund benefiting women and families in transition. It was created in 2010 in honour of Dana Tkachenko, whose remarkable contribution closes the prose section of the anthology. The fund’s purpose is to help women and families in transition.
"The Dana Fund was created in July of 2010 at the Canadian Mental Health Agency (CMHA HKPR) in Peterborough Ontario, at the suggestion of friends and family who wished to make donations in her memory. Dana Tkachenko inspired many people through her own experiences of struggling against tremendous obstacles and succeeding in creating a stable and fulfilling life for herself and her family. Dana’s memory is honoured through the Dana Fund, by dedicating donations to the cause of supporting young women and families in transition, experiencing similar challenges, who could benefit from some help along the way." - Gord Langill
This is a cross-genre anthology, including mainstream, slipstream and magic realist work. Writers who have contributed fiction and poetry include both internationally published award winners and those who appear here in print for the first time. They include Michelle Berry, Silvia Moreno Garcia, Linda Rogers, Leanne Simpson, P.J. Thomas, Jan Thornhill and more. Look forward to short readings from some of our amazing contributors!
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.
"We are reading our way out of sadness." So writes Linda Rogers in her fine poem, "Paper Stairs." And as our relationship with home and family is a complicated and varied one, Ursula Pflug's Hidden Brook Press anthology They Have to Take You In, provides the reader with ample evidence of the profound complexity of blood and clan. The Welsh word "hiraeth" translates roughly as "longing for home," and yet there are those for whom home is not so positive and the fine line between being homesick and being sick of home is just as often not so fine. "I remember being put out on the street/ at the age of nine or ten/ by my father for reasons that still remain a mystery/ even to me," writes Darryl Salach in his poem, "On the Road". None of the mushy sentimentality, false memory and treacly greeting-card nostalgia for these writers-no, these writers are interested in the healing truths we tell when writers are writing their way out of sadness for the sake of love. Herein they tell the entire grumble of the story, sometimes in memoir, sometimes in fiction, sometimes in a poem, but never in the candy-coated dithyrambs that populate the pages of those 'chicken soup for the soul' books. This anthology is filled with serious truth, the kind that goes deep and heals from well within the wound. John B. Lee Poet Laureate of Brantford, Poet Laureate of Norfolk County
The book’s aim is to benefit women and families in transition. We are grateful to Richard Grove at Hidden Brook Press, who is donating a percentage of royalties from sales to our beneficiary. Thanks to Gordon Langill, who suggested and wrote about CMHA’s The Dana Fund, a no overhead fund applicants may use to meet any pressing needs; Tapanga Koe, for helping put together the Indiegogo website, and the amazing authors who have contributed signed books to the campaign, and/or poetry and fiction to the book! Our heroes include Leanne Simpson, Linda Rogers, Tim Becket, Jan Thornhill, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, and many more!
New anthology: Food of My People
Food of My People: The Exile Book Of Anthology Series Number Nineteen is available for preorder. Co-edited by Candas Jane Dorsey and I, it borrows its title from her story, previously published in Playground of Lost Toys, which I co-edited with Colleen Anderson.
Eating is a symbolic and magical act--a transformation, a covenant, a ritual, a comfort, a necessity--but all through history, food-themed stories have also had their dark sides. Food can be integral to the magic, the meetings, and the processes of fantastical fiction: from myth and legend to high fantasy, from hard-science speculative fiction to post-modern magic realism, from Hansel and Gretel to Soylent Green, from Persephone to 2001, from Alice in Wonderland to Alien. In this anthology, Ursula Pflug and Candas Jane Dorsey, two award-winning senior writers of literary speculation, have gathered a range of speculative writing that recognizes both our attraction to the candy coating and our fascination with the poisoned apple. Paired with each story is a recipe, real or fantastical, for food mentioned in the story: consume at your own risk!
Our amazing authors include established luminaries and newcomers including Richard Van Camp, Melissa Yuan-Innes, Geoffrey W. Cole, Chris Kuriata, Sheung-King, Kathy Nguyen, Kate Story, Sang Kim, Casey June Wolf, Nathan Adler and many more!
Eating is a symbolic and magical act--a transformation, a covenant, a ritual, a comfort, a necessity--but all through history, food-themed stories have also had their dark sides. Food can be integral to the magic, the meetings, and the processes of fantastical fiction: from myth and legend to high fantasy, from hard-science speculative fiction to post-modern magic realism, from Hansel and Gretel to Soylent Green, from Persephone to 2001, from Alice in Wonderland to Alien. In this anthology, Ursula Pflug and Candas Jane Dorsey, two award-winning senior writers of literary speculation, have gathered a range of speculative writing that recognizes both our attraction to the candy coating and our fascination with the poisoned apple. Paired with each story is a recipe, real or fantastical, for food mentioned in the story: consume at your own risk!
Our amazing authors include established luminaries and newcomers including Richard Van Camp, Melissa Yuan-Innes, Geoffrey W. Cole, Chris Kuriata, Sheung-King, Kathy Nguyen, Kate Story, Sang Kim, Casey June Wolf, Nathan Adler and many more!
