Tag Archive for the term: novel

The other day I bought a purple ukulele and Elran and I wandered through old Montreal and China town just strumming along. The ukulele is a special little thing, it makes a pluky joyful noise and the 4 nylon strings make it pretty easy to play and if you’re smallish like me it fits it [...]

A Kurdish publisher claims to have taken a major step towards a new degree of freedom of the press for Kurdistan in releasing Ghazalnus and the Gardens of Imagination and paying the author. Should give you pause if you’re out there trumpeting simplistic ideologies of indie like “never signing with any publisher or label” [...]

It’s true. Alanah stole my copy of Break On Through and is enjoying it thoroughly.
I’ve been waiting eagerly to get my hands on Jill Murray’s young adult b-girl novel. I finally got my very own copy this week only to have it snagged. As Alanah pointed out I was reading three other books already (including [...]

Hey guys — the Montrealler artist of Therefore Repent!, my graphic novel, is going to be giving a projected dramatic presentation of the book at the next Geek OUT! in Montreal on Sat. Feb 23.
Location: MUCS Dining Coop, 2000 Northcliffe, suite 218 (corner De Maisoneuve, near Vendome metro)
The Mirror did this nice article [...]

Well, I started a post about 2 different examples of “open source storytelling.” But this isn’t it. My post ran away with me and turned into a relatively nerdy diatribe on the subject of open source licenses applied to storytelling, and a critique of the Million Penguins project. I decided to post it on OpenJournalMontreal [...]

A Guest Contribution from Nathan Murray
Ireland is a bit of a curious nation in terms of its literary production. English profs love readings by Irish writers because of their themes of oppression and their outside perspective on Anglo-American culture,while the younger crowd go to readings by Irish writers for the sexy Irish accents (and maybe [...]

A unique voice in Canadian literature, Catherine Kidd is best known for her touring one-woman stage performances.
Joy of joys, her much-anticipated, long-awaited first novel, Missing the Ark hits shelves… now!
Fans, old and new, can join in the celebration of the new arrival at the Montreal launch Friday April 27th at the Blue Metropolis Literary Festival [...]

Matrix Magazine and the Quebec Writers Federation have teamed up to present this monthly showcase of talent from the Concordia Creative Writing program. I attended a few of the Pilot readings at Blizzarts (3956-A St Laurent Blvd) in the fall, and I found each to be an evening of engaging poetry and prose by promising [...]