This month’s writing advice is a little different. Ava Homa’s brilliant, insightful and disturbing novel “Daughters of Smoke and Fire” is a must-read. I found it unbearably moving and thought-provoking. I read it in small snatches, breathing and pacing in between my readings, drawn back, compulsively to the next chapter and the next and theContinue reading “Ava Homa Speaks to Sue Burge about The Why of Writing”
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WordCity Book Reviews
Two Reviews by Tina S. Beier This novel is wonderful. It has the perfect blend of historical detail, emotional depth, and action/intrigue. The novel is set in the mid-1500s, on the island of Malta, during military aggression between the Ottoman Empire and the Knights of St John. The story features some battle scenes but mainlyContinue reading “WordCity Book Reviews”
Leonard Cohen and Robert Fulford. An Essay by Gordon Phinn
Leonard Cohen and Robert Fulford Leonard Cohen, Untold Stories: The Early Years by Michael Posner (Simon&Shuster, 2020) Matters Of Vital Interest: A Forty-Year Friendship with Leonard Cohen by Eric Lerner (DaCapo Press 2018) Leonard Cohen: A Woodcut Biography by George A. Walker (Firefly Books 2020) A Life In Paragraphs: Essays by Robert Fulford (Optimum PublishingContinue reading “Leonard Cohen and Robert Fulford. An Essay by Gordon Phinn”
Everywhere is Now. A graphic story by Rachel J Fenton
Return to Journal Rachel J Fenton is an award-winning writer living in the South Island of New Zealand. Her fiction has won the University of Plymouth Short Fiction Prize, the Auckland University of Technology Creative Writing Prize, she came second in the Dundee International Book Prize, was longlisted for the Inaugural Michael Gifkins Unpublished NovelContinue reading “Everywhere is Now. A graphic story by Rachel J Fenton”
Why the Scotiabank Giller Prize Keeps Getting Better (and What Literary Theorists Can Learn from the Sociology of Sport). An essay by Olga Stein
ESSAY: Why the Scotiabank Giller Prize Keeps Getting Better (and What Literary Theorists Can Learn from the Sociology of Sport) I suspect that my sense of time has been distorted somewhat by the current pandemic, because when an email arrived from the Scotiabank Giller Prize last week, announcing the five members of its 2021 jury,Continue reading “Why the Scotiabank Giller Prize Keeps Getting Better (and What Literary Theorists Can Learn from the Sociology of Sport). An essay by Olga Stein”
Pushelat, Lithuania. Non-fiction by Dawn Promislow
Pushelat, Lithuania I was in Lithuania. I thought I would try to see the village of Pušalotas. My friend’s father came from there; it was a shtetl with two hundred Jewish inhabitants on the eve of the Second World War. The town was known, in Yiddish, as Pushelat. So I hired a man to driveContinue reading “Pushelat, Lithuania. Non-fiction by Dawn Promislow”
BE WATER, MY FRIEND. Fiction by Edvin Subašić
BE WATER, MY FRIEND Damir stood first in the line that wrapped around Kino Kozara like a serpent. The master, the immortal Bruce Lee, was in town. It was the opening night, Dragon night—the spirit of the impossible. At last, Enter the Dragon was about to play in our tiny theater with yellow walls coveredContinue reading “BE WATER, MY FRIEND. Fiction by Edvin Subašić”
My mother, my father, myself. Fiction by Josie Di Sciascio-Andrews.
“Walking, I am listening to a deeper way. Suddenly all my ancestors are behind me. Be still, they say. Watch and listen. You are the result of the love of thousands.” Linda Hoga, 1947. (Native American Writer) My mother, my father, myself My father met my mother in 1954, in the decade after the endContinue reading “My mother, my father, myself. Fiction by Josie Di Sciascio-Andrews.”
Walking Upside Down. Fiction by John Ravenscroft
Walking Upside-down In my dreams, the good ones, Mary Iris McCormack – Mim for short – is forever doing handstands, her knees bent, her feet planted flat against the redbrick playground wall. The skirt of her school uniform hangs like a soft green bell about the half-hidden clapper of her head, and when she turnsContinue reading “Walking Upside Down. Fiction by John Ravenscroft”
The True Story of Leopold and Professor Whiskers. Fiction by Jacob D. Stein
The True Tale of Leopold and Professor Whiskers Scientists have long been placing bets on when ‘the singularity’ would emerge out of digital nothingness, and catapult an artificial consciousness into the physical world. However, the birth of an entirely new intelligence was not what they expected. The feline character of this consciousness took society completelyContinue reading “The True Story of Leopold and Professor Whiskers. Fiction by Jacob D. Stein”
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