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Like a good workout, there are perks to writing, but like a good workout, it’s exhausting once you really get into it. I’m not the first writer to occasionally ponder…
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Five Writers on One Reason They Write …
Posted on January 27, 2012 | 4 CommentsLike a good workout, there are perks to writing, but like a good workout, it’s exhausting once you really get into it. I’m not the first writer to occasionally ponder... -
Randy Drover Wins the Inaugral Cox Palmer Award: Here’s a poem and short story by Randy
Posted on January 25, 2012 | No CommentsRandy Drover is, in my opinion, one of the best emerging writers in the country. And I’ve been a fan for years. In 2008, to grow as a writer, I... -
Year-end Roundup: A Chat with Nicole Lundrigan and an overview of GLASS BOYS
Posted on January 23, 2012 | 2 CommentsGlass Boys is the fourth novel by Newfoundland novelist Nicole Lundrigan, an author dubbed as “a serious contender for the next great Canadian novelist” by critic Sarah Weinman. It received... -
Salty Links: Fightin’ Words Break Out at NL Reads, Côté Takes over Thomas Allen, The latest Book Blog Trend, and more …
Posted on January 20, 2012 | No CommentsAs the first ever NL Reads competition nears an end, Joel Thomas Hynes takes a kick and Chad and the Tortoise’s carapace: See the NL Reads Competition here. The esteemed... -
Year-end Roundup: A Chat with Valerie Compton and an Overview of TIDE ROAD
Posted on January 16, 2012 | No CommentsIt might be a debut novel, but it seems strange to call it that, given how seasoned and stellar a writer Compton is. She’s been doing this for twenty years,... -
Year-end Roundup: An Interview with Lynn Coady and an Overview of THE ANTAGONIST
Posted on January 13, 2012 | No CommentsLynn Coady’s The Antagonist was shortlisted for the Giller Prize this year, the country’s most illustrious literary award. Over the course of her career, she’s written a body of work... -
N.A.C.L: Two Poems from Jacob McArthur Mooney’s FOLK
Posted on January 11, 2012 | No CommentsMooney’s work has appeared in many literary journals (won Prairie Fire‘s poetry contest last year), received the Banff Centre Bliss Carman Poetry Award, and was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas... -
Year-end Review: A Chat with Jacob McArthur Mooney and an Overview of Folk
Posted on January 10, 2012 | 4 CommentsThere are a lot of people in the world. Billions. To make a national or even regional award’s shortlist is quite a feat, but to land on one for an... -
Year-end Round Up: A Chat with Patrick Warner and an Overview of Double Talk
Posted on January 9, 2012 | 1 CommentWarner on Double Talk, winner of the Percy Janes First Novel Award … Ireland’s poet and novelist, Patrick Warner, moved to Newfoundland in 1980 “in search of better weather and... -
GUEST POST: Jeff Bursey on Ratcheting Up Your Readings
Posted on January 8, 2012 | 3 CommentsJeff Bursey on Ratcheting Up Your Readings … Background Note: Jeff Bursey’s Verbatim: A Novel (Enfield & Wizenty) is an unusual and highly political book to say the least. Jeff,... -
The First Ever NL Reads Contest Happening over at The Book Fridge.
Posted on January 6, 2012 | No CommentsJanuary needn’t be a bore, in the wake of December’s holidays. Kerri Cull, book blogger with a poetry book out very soon (Soak) is having 5 Newfoundland Artists answer... -
Year-end Summary: A Chat with Gerard Collins and an Overview of Moonlight Sketches
Posted on January 5, 2012 | No CommentsGerard’s been winning awards for a decade, and finally gave us a published collection last spring. In Moonlight Sketches, Collins excels in hooking his reader with a well-paced sense of... -
Survey Says: Salty Ink’s “Bestsellers” and Survey Finds …
Posted on January 3, 2012 | 4 CommentsSalty Ink posted a survey last week… relevant feedback from the answers are below … Salty Ink Bestsellers! One of the survey questions was which specific books have you bought... -
Please Fill Out This Survey to Make Salty Ink a Better Place! And We’ll See you in the New Year.
Posted on December 23, 2011 | No CommentsHappy Holidays, dear readers. So, 2011 was a great year for books, and strange year for Salty Ink. There was the disappearance in the spring, and the occasional lull as... -
Salty Ink’s Top 10 Canadian Books of 2011 Short Fiction #CanadianAffair
Posted on December 22, 2011 | 1 CommentHey! Read more short fiction. Novels are like a nice intimate chat over a pint, but shorts are like a wild, unexpected night out. You want more of those, right?... -
Is This Self-publishing? Here’s a Story I wrote …
Posted on December 20, 2011 | 5 CommentsLast Month they revealed the winners of the 2011 Cuffer Prize. Because the stories have a max word count of 1,200, they let you submit two. I submitted two. One,... -
The Ultimate Christmas Gift: All 23 Volumes of The Journal Prize Anthologies
Posted on December 19, 2011 | No CommentsTwice a month, Salty Ink Takes a Look at What’s Going on up in Canada, Profiling Some of Our Notable Canadian Counterparts and/or Books I’ve Deemed Worth Cheating on Salty... -
The End of Ed Riche Week: Audio-Visual Odds and Ends
Posted on December 16, 2011 | No CommentsEd On Bookends, Episode 11: Cultural Satire: And an interview on CBC’s Weekend Arts Magazine: http://www.cbc.ca/wam/episodes/2011/09/11/wam-sept-10-11-new-book—easy-to-like/ -
Tanya Davis Takes Salty Ink’s 2011 Judge a Book by Its Cover Contest! Read All About her and Her Book Here!
Posted on December 15, 2011 | 5 CommentsTanya Davis Takes Salty Ink’s 2011 Judge a Book by Its Cover Contest! Massive congrats to designer Matt Reid After 757 votes, Tanya Davis’s long awaited-for debut, At First, Lonely,... -
Ed Riche Week: Talking Wine with Ed Riche
Posted on December 14, 2011 | No CommentsThe main character in Ed Riche’s new novel, Easy to Like, is a screenwriter turned winemaker … Ed knows his stuff, so read up and learn what to serve with... -
Ed Riche Week: Shedding Some Ink on … Ed Riche
Posted on December 13, 2011 | 2 CommentsEd Riche, recently crowned Atlantic Canada’s King of Satire by Salty Ink, writes for the page, stage, screen, and radio. Well. A Chemistry student turned film school graduate, he co-created... -
Ed Riche Week: The New Novel, Easy to Like
Posted on December 12, 2011 | 1 CommentA good bottle of wine reflects the characteristics of where it comes from. It captures the quality of a time and place, be it Côtes du Rhône, circa 1999, or... -
Check Out Ken Harvey’s New Short Film in Its Entirety …
Posted on December 9, 2011 | No CommentsIt is also a cinematic interpratation of his new novel, Reinventing the Rose. This video will be disabled shortly … This is his second film to star his daughter, Emma.... -
The 2011 Judge a Book by its Cover Competition …
Posted on December 8, 2011 | 15 CommentsEach year, as a fun, interactive way to get people talking about books, and to praise good book design, Salty Ink hosts an interactive a Judge-a-book-by-its-cover competition for titles released that year,... -
You Could Believe in Nothing Wins Fitzpatrick Rookie of the Year Status
Posted on December 6, 2011 | 1 CommentCBC’s Jamie Fitzpatrick stepped onto the ice in fine form with his debut novel, You Could Believe in Nothing. Before being drafted by Nimbus’s Vagrant Press, he’d already won the... -
Just for Fun on a Friday … Return of The Advent Book Blog + Something Perfectly Funny.
Posted on December 2, 2011 | No CommentsThe Advent Book Blog is Back! This seasonal, Christmas-only barrel of fun is pretty much what it sounds like. Every day, Sean Cranbury and Julie Wilson ask a few authors... -
Grant Loveys, Pelley & Crocker, Take Home the 2011 Cuffer Prize
Posted on December 1, 2011 | 1 CommentLast night in St. John’s, Grant Loveys took home the Fourth Annual Cuffer Prize for short fiction. The Cuffer Prize has quickly become one of the most exciting and well-thought-out short fiction... -
On Inspiration: A Musical Journey Through the Seeds That Sprung Michelle Butler Hallett’s Fourth Book
Posted on November 30, 2011 | 2 CommentsMichelle Butler Hallett is a Newfoundland-based writer known for doing what every writer wants to do: Write books that no one else would have conceived and written.The one thing you’ll...
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