La Leña Residency

So grateful to La Leña Residency on Galiano Island for the amazing week of work. Thank you to Dayna for your tireless dedication to artists and for this beautiful place.

First Place: CRAFT First Chapters Contest

Thank you to CRAFT and judge Maisy Card for awarding VEGABOY first place in the First Chapters Contest. This excerpt will be published in December in CRAFT; thank you to that editorial team for your beautiful work.

See the announcement here: https://www.craftliterary.com/craft-first-chapters-contest-2022/

MacDowell Fellowship

Thank you to the amazing community at MacDowell for awarding me a fellowship for 2022. In residence I completed a manuscript that has been in the works for four years. Thank you, too, to the amazing artists there for your guidance and brilliance and friendship.

Open Text Visiting Writers 2022

Thank you to the Canada Council for a Public Outreach grant, bringing these amazing writers to our students and university.

Visiting Writers Fall 2021

Delighted to announce the Visiting Writers I have booked for Capilano Creative Writing this fall. Thanks to a grant from the Canada Council, they will visit with students to guide craft talks and read from their work. This series is a great joy of my job as Creative Writing Convenor at Capilano University. Thanks to these authors for their generous work. xo

Spring Visiting Writers

Our spring lineup for the Open Text Visiting Writers series at Capilano University. It has been such a joy to book these authors as visitors for our students.

Open Text Visiting Writers

At Capilano University, where I am Creative Writing Convenor, I am booking authors for our virtual visiting writers series. I can’t tell you how grateful I am to these authors. What an amazing 2020-21 season.

Craft Class

The Futurists: 

Writing for the Network Society with Leah Bailly

Location: Thoren, University Club, Arizona State University
Type(s): Presentation, Seminar
Genre and Form(s): Experimental, Fiction, Hybrid, Interdisciplinary, Mixed Genre, Science Fiction
Tags: Narration, Media, Technology, The Future, Sound, Video, Image

About the Session

How does the global village tell stories? How does the digital age change our thinking and our writing? Thanks to the internet, we are now used to events being broadcast instantly and simultaneously. Plural voices report on every issue, and text is always accompanied by video, sound and image. As we delve further into the digital age, we are increasingly comfortable with hyperlinks and hybrid forms and multiple narrators infiltrating our narration. But do we forsake a certain intimacy in our literature? Are we growing accustomed to the isolation of constant connectivity? This seminar examines what we gain and lose by writing in a networked society, and how these new forms appear on the page and screen.

Beverly Hills Literary Escape

So grateful to Literary Affairs in Los Angeles for inviting me to moderate a panel at the Beverly Hills Literary Escape. Best quote, Joan Silber: “Raise your hand if you’ve never done something stupid for love.” None of us did. 💗

Paradise, NV

My story Paradise, NV is here in Cosmonaut's Avenue, a journal run and edited by women! These editors are rad, I love their taste. I feel honoured to be in their pages again. 

Cosmonauts Ave

My story “Paradise, NV” has just made it to the short list at the Cosmonaut’s Avenue Fiction Prize.  I love these guys/girls!!!!!!!

River Styx 96

Delighted to have my story "The Doors" in River Styx Guide to Money and Power. The editorial board here is is a force-- very happy to see this bit of Nevada in your pages. 

wetheurban:

MIXED MEDIA COLLAGES, JULIEN PACAUD

Julien Pacaud is a french illustrator, currently living in Le Mans, France. Before becoming an illustrator, he was, by turns : an astrophysicist, an international snooker player, a hypnotist and an Esperanto teacher.

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Lori Nix’s dioramas in “Post Human Utopia.”

Lately I have been concerned with utopia, and the ways in which we create dystopia out of our utopian spaces, and how every dystopia also contains glimpses of utopia, and how to write a fucking utopian novel with a baby strapped to one’s chest. 

This is where my man Colin and I spent our baby moon– north of San Francisco, in a town called Point Arena, and all the parks around that zone. So gorgeous. All of these shots are Colin’s. xx