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Story up at Esacpe Pod!
http://escapepod.org/2012/03/08/ep335...
My Aurora nominated short story "The Water Man," reprinted in the US and the UK, is now up at Escape Pod, the awesome science fiction podcast site. The release date was March 8, 2012.
I've attached a link to 1993's Air Fish, a wonderful California anthology in which The Water Man was reprinted. Also represented are Cory Doctorow, Misha, Bruce Boston and Bruce Holland Rogers.
Air Fish: An Anthology of Speculative Writing
My Aurora nominated short story "The Water Man," reprinted in the US and the UK, is now up at Escape Pod, the awesome science fiction podcast site. The release date was March 8, 2012.
I've attached a link to 1993's Air Fish, a wonderful California anthology in which The Water Man was reprinted. Also represented are Cory Doctorow, Misha, Bruce Boston and Bruce Holland Rogers.
Air Fish: An Anthology of Speculative Writing
Waterfront -- book trailer for After the Fires posted!
Repost! I took down my old Google account as advised, for privacy reasons and then recently started a new one for gmail, since the webmail that comes with Persona sucks. Way easier to start a YouTube channel from my gmail account than the way I did it last time, which, of course, is exactly how the big G wants it. As Rosemary Sullivan recently pointed out, we need to remember Google and Facebook are not public services. Anyway, I'm glad this beautiful little movie is available again, and will piss away even more time taalking about it other places. Did anyone warn us how much time we would spend on this sh*t, convivial as we may often find it?
Yes, of course, Bradbury did, in Fahrenheit 451. Let's all move to the forest and read books again. Can we? Can we? Oh, I already did that.
Karen Lee Hall's reading of the story gave me shivers listening to it this time, it's so good. Of course the film isn't really a book trailer as it was made more than two decades before Waterfront was reprinted in After the Fires, but it was digitized the same year ATF came out, which seemed more than coincidence and allowed me to do a little cross promotion. Check it out, it's a gorgeous little abstract film version of my first ever published short story, which appeared in the anthology New Bodies. Lorne Gould, the editor/publisher at Emanation Press, has posted the press's output online.
http://www.emanation.org/0920540104.htm
Yes, of course, Bradbury did, in Fahrenheit 451. Let's all move to the forest and read books again. Can we? Can we? Oh, I already did that.
Karen Lee Hall's reading of the story gave me shivers listening to it this time, it's so good. Of course the film isn't really a book trailer as it was made more than two decades before Waterfront was reprinted in After the Fires, but it was digitized the same year ATF came out, which seemed more than coincidence and allowed me to do a little cross promotion. Check it out, it's a gorgeous little abstract film version of my first ever published short story, which appeared in the anthology New Bodies. Lorne Gould, the editor/publisher at Emanation Press, has posted the press's output online.
http://www.emanation.org/0920540104.htm
Appearance at The Word is Wild Literary Festival, June 2014
From the organizer, poet Kathy Figueroa: "I'm delighted to announce that well-known Canadian novelist, Ursula Pflug, will be featured at "The Word Is Wild Literary Festival," which will be held at The Arlington Hotel, in Maynooth, on June 6th and 7th! Along with reading from her work, writing workshops with Ursula will be arranged. Ursula's appearance here will be facilitated by the financial assistance of the Canada Council through The Writers' Union of Canada.
Additional information will be posted soon!
The Arlington Hotel boasts the HI hostel due to its proximity to Algonquin Park. I anticipate hiking adventures interspersed among the more literary adventures.
Additional information will be posted soon!
The Arlington Hotel boasts the HI hostel due to its proximity to Algonquin Park. I anticipate hiking adventures interspersed among the more literary adventures.
The Word is Wild, Maynooth, On. June 6-7
The Word Is Wild Literary Festival happens in Maynooth on June 6th and 7th. Maynooth is on the edge of Alqonquin Park and the festival takes place at The Arlington Hotel which is also the hostel for tourists, many from northern Europe, who have come to explore the park. I'll be facilitating a couple of writing workshops and reading on Saturday at 4 pm from The Alphabet Stones, sponsored by The National Public Readings Program of The Writers' Union of Canada.
Speaking of The Alphabet Stones there is a nice new review up at Amazing Stories online, by Canadian author/editor Steve Fahnestalk.
Among other things, Steve says: It has been a long while since a writer has kept me on this kind of knife edge: are there really two worlds? Even though we can see all kinds of things clearly through Jody’s eyes—and the book is a voyage of self-discovery as well as a sort of travelogue of mostly one place—we’re as uncertain as Jody is whether any of this is “real” in the usual sense. A lot of it deals with alienation—Jody’s as well as Ethan’s—which, in a very real sense, is a big problem for youth; often we don’t feel like we belong anywhere when we’re growing up. Like Jody, we sometimes don’t feel as if we’re part of our own family; they can appear to be strangers and we the halfling; as if we have been stolen away by fairies and replaced by some sort of golem. Are we the golem or the halfling? These questions are a part of the confusion Jody often feels, exacerbated by her feelings for Ethan, and the realization that Ethan feels for her sister what Jody feels for him. (It sounds more soap-opera-ish than it is.)
Anyway, I don’t want to quote large chunks of the book; I liked the writing so much I’d rather let the reader discover it for him/herself.
Speaking of The Alphabet Stones there is a nice new review up at Amazing Stories online, by Canadian author/editor Steve Fahnestalk.
Among other things, Steve says: It has been a long while since a writer has kept me on this kind of knife edge: are there really two worlds? Even though we can see all kinds of things clearly through Jody’s eyes—and the book is a voyage of self-discovery as well as a sort of travelogue of mostly one place—we’re as uncertain as Jody is whether any of this is “real” in the usual sense. A lot of it deals with alienation—Jody’s as well as Ethan’s—which, in a very real sense, is a big problem for youth; often we don’t feel like we belong anywhere when we’re growing up. Like Jody, we sometimes don’t feel as if we’re part of our own family; they can appear to be strangers and we the halfling; as if we have been stolen away by fairies and replaced by some sort of golem. Are we the golem or the halfling? These questions are a part of the confusion Jody often feels, exacerbated by her feelings for Ethan, and the realization that Ethan feels for her sister what Jody feels for him. (It sounds more soap-opera-ish than it is.)
Anyway, I don’t want to quote large chunks of the book; I liked the writing so much I’d rather let the reader discover it for him/herself.
The Word Was Wild
ridiculously fun weekend at the The Word is Wild festival in Maynooth, including swimming in the river; getting lost on the trails; listening to amazing readings/performances by mirka sweetgrass, bob mackenzie, martin durkin, and dallas in the shot and bottle lounge; avoiding the legendary maynooth blackflies; reading from The Alphabet Stones in a place that mirrors the book possibly more than the town that figures in it; reading from Kismet Dyment’s Steel Animals; dancing to the fabulous tiff ginn and fred eaglesmith; workshopping attendees’ short stories; talking about writing, life, the universe and everything with great friends old and new. thank you to Kathy Figueroa and Arlington Bernie for possibly my favourite literary festival yet. there is potential for a residency program but in the meantime i can see how a self-directed writers’ residency could work really well as the rooms at the arlington are hostel (read artists’) rates.
Sam Miguel Conference Appearance
San Miguel Writers' Conference
I'll be running a short fiction workshop on Thursday morning (it's oversubscribed) and reading in Tent A on Sunday at 12:45 pm.
If you're in San Miguel for the conference, stop by my reading and say hi. The keynotes are Gloria Steinem and Alice Walker, among others. It's going to be amazing.
I'll be running a short fiction workshop on Thursday morning (it's oversubscribed) and reading in Tent A on Sunday at 12:45 pm.
If you're in San Miguel for the conference, stop by my reading and say hi. The keynotes are Gloria Steinem and Alice Walker, among others. It's going to be amazing.
