This week, everyone is talking about Canadian short stories--about writing them, reading them, liking and hating and utterly ignoring them, anthologizing and mythologizing them. If only it could be this way always!
If you've not already been reading Steven W. Beattie's amazing month of short stories for the past ten days, this week you can tune into 7 Canadian stories, with a bonus essay by me (though, it's mainly on an American author's [Donald Barthelme] story, sorry). Today you can read Alex Good take on the stories in the Toronto Star, you can pick up the new issues of Canadian Notes and Queries and The New Quarterly for some of the best of the story writers in the country, and you can hear an assortment of all these people Wednesday night at the Gladstone to talk about it all.
It's fun to be immersed in the hot topic for once!
It could be fantasy / or maybe it's because he needs me
RR
Rebecca Rosenblum...
is a writer and editor who likes a lot of stuff. This is a blog about that stuff, and also her writing. Rebecca is the writer-in-residence at Jean Vanier High School, and was a juror for The Journey Prize 21. Her work has been short-listed for the Journey Prize, the Danuta Gleed Award and the National Magazine Award. Her first book of short stories, Once, was published by Biblioasis and was one of Quill & Quire's 15 Books That Mattered in 2008. Rebecca's stories are occasionally seen in Canadian periodicals and her second collection, *The Big Dream,* is forthcoming from Biblioasis.
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ask this a lot, but where can one buy this stuff in Ottawa. Sometimes I feel like my local indie bokstore is a WHSmith in Wolf's clothing.
I'd give it another week--I can't even find these in all the TO shops yet. Then try the bigger newsstands and indies, and yes, the big Indigos should have'em. *Should*. If you are really impassioned, you can order copies through the websites linked here.
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