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N.A.C.L. Archive
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A Snapshot of, and Sample Poem from, George Murray’s Whiteout
Posted on April 17, 2012 | 1 CommentQuite a few big names have released collections this spring, but I’ll endorse Whiteout as the must-buy collection of spring 2012. I confess I’m biased, he might be my favourite... -
An Excerpt from the Opening Story of Russell Wangersky’s WHIRL AWAY
Posted on April 9, 2012 | No CommentsWhirl Away is the fourth book by multi-award-winning author and journalist Russell Wangersky. Click here to read Salty Ink’s review of Whirl Away. Click here to read Salty Ink’s interview... -
“The Meteorite Hunter,” a Short Story from Laura Boudreau’s Suitable Precautions
Posted on March 19, 2012 | 1 CommentAs a follow-up to that collection Salty Ink was raving about on Friday, here’s a sample from it. A story called “The Meteorite Hunter.” “The Meteorite Hunter” by Laura Boudreau... -
A Perfect Introduction to Kerri Cull’s Soak, from Kerri Herself:
Posted on March 14, 2012 | 2 CommentsKerri Cull is has been a bartender, bookseller, waitress, administrator, radio show host, columnist, instructor, and is the creator of The Book Fridge. This is her first book. it’s a... -
A Sampling of Gerard Beirne’s New Collection, Games of Chance
Posted on February 24, 2012 | 1 CommentOne of the most prominent Irish transplants now dwelling in Atlantic Canada, Gerard Beirne was quick to root himself here, and foster its writing community. He’s currently teaching at UNB,... -
Check Out This Fantastic Series of Poems by the Incomparable Mary Dalton, before Her PK Page Trust Fund Reading on Thursday Night …
Posted on January 31, 2012 | No CommentsThe Canadian League of Poets and the Canada Council for the Arts have launched a nationwide reading campaign, in the name of Canadian poet PK Page. The PK Page Trust... -
Randy Drover Wins the Inaugral Cox Palmer Award: Here’s a poem and short story by Randy
Posted on January 25, 2012 | 1 CommentRandy 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... -
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... -
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,... -
Shedding Some Ink on … Mark Callanan, Featuring 2 Poems
Posted on November 28, 2011 | 3 Comments“It’s not so much that ‘the unexamined life is not worth living,’ but that the unexamined life has not yet been lived.” – Mark Callanan I don’t hesitate at all... -
N.A.C.L. – a Poem, “Cardiogram” from Danielle Devereaux’s new Chapbook, CARDIOGRAM
Posted on November 17, 2011 | No CommentsWith lines like “I boils a mean kettle” and the image of a cartwheeling heart doing backflips “until she smacks into the corner of a coffee table,” I’ve yet to... -
N.A.C.L. – “Stories We Tell Ourselves” by Shannon Webb-Campbell
Posted on October 2, 2011 | No CommentsOver the winter, spring, and summer of 2011, I had the pleasure of working with Shannon through a mentorship program administered by the Writers’ Alliance of Newfoundland & Labrador.... -
N.A.C.L: Dana Evely’s Poem, “HollyHock” — Catch Her and 7 Others Launching Chapbooks Tonight!
Posted on September 12, 2011 | No CommentsDana Evely is among that pack of talented new Newfoundland authors who are ambidextrous in output, writing equal parts fiction and poetry. Dana’s had a particularly great 2011 with regards... -
N.A.C.L. – A Poem from Shoshanna Wingate’s new Chapbook, Homing Instinct
Posted on August 26, 2011 | No CommentsOriginally from South Carolina, and a graduate of New York’s The New School, with her MFA in poetry, She found her way to the Newfoundland writing scene, and settled right... -
N.A.C.L.– “Della Renfrew” by Jessica Grant, from her Collection, Making Light of Tragedy. ENTER TO WIN A COPY!
Posted on August 4, 2011 | 37 CommentsIf you’ve read Jessica Grant’s multi-award-winning novel, Come, Thou Tortoise, then you would not say no to reading more of her. Some people seem unaware she has collection of shorts... -
N.A.C.L. – “Thaw,” An Arts & Letters Winner by Aimee Wall [Short Fiction]
Posted on July 28, 2011 | No Comments“Thaw” is the first of two Arts & Letters Award winners by St. John’s's Aimee Wall. The Arts & Letters competition has been around long enough that’s it’s almost a... -
N.A.C.L. – “Shaver” from Samuel Martin’s Winterset-shortlisted Collection THIS RAMSHACKLE TABERNACLE
Posted on July 8, 2011 | No CommentsYou’ve probably noticed by now that I really like this guy’s writing. That’s because it’s really good. Click here to read more about this collection. “Sam Martin is an exceptional... -
N.A.C.L. – Recent WFNB’s Short Fiction Contest Winner, Jane Gillies’ “The Bedclothes Baby”
Posted on June 25, 2011 | 6 CommentsEvery year, the Writers’ Federation of New Brunswick has an annual writing competition with several categories encompassing all genres, as well as manuscript-length awards. This year’s standalone short story winner,... -
2 Great Motherhood Poems from the New Sue Goyette, OUTSKIRTS
Posted on June 15, 2011 | No CommentsSue’s last two collections, The True Names of Birds and Undone, were finalists for the GG award (among others), and I’ll bet this one will be too. It’s brilliant display... -
N.A.C.L. – 3 Poems from Vanessa Moeller’s Our Extraordinary Monsters
Posted on May 29, 2011 | No CommentsVanessa Moeller’s crisp poems and short stories have appeared in journals like The Fiddlehead, Prism International, The Antigonish Review, CV2, The Pottersfield Portfolio and Qwerty and have won several awards... -
N.A.C.L – “Break, Break, Break,” from Gerard Collins’ Brand New MOONLIGHT SKETCHES [short story]
Posted on May 26, 2011 | No CommentsMoonlight Sketches is Gerard’s debut collection, and stories from this collection have already won several awards and been anthologized in collections like Hard ol Spot, a Salty Ink favourite. (Hard ol Spot... -
N.A.C.L. – “Oranges” by Melissa Tucker Barbeau [short story]
Posted on March 13, 2011 | 1 CommentMelissa Tucker Barbeau’s “Oranges” I’ve read this story three times: as a fellow creative writing student, as a 1st-judge for a competition, and then as a course facilitator. I liked... -
N.A.C.L – “The Name That Floats on Black Water,” from Julia McCarthy’s Return from Erebus [Poem]
Posted on February 28, 2011 | 2 CommentsFrom the Backcover: Erebus, the dark and shadowy outer realm of the Underworld in Greek mythology, becomes a place of transition and becoming in Julia McCarthy’s Return from Erebus. The... -
N.A.C.L. – two Poems by Kerri Cull
Posted on February 13, 2011 | 1 Comment2 Poems by Kerri Cull From her manuscript Soak I’ve had the opportunity to read Kerri’s manuscript, and I really like the evocative, universal, and accessible nature of her work.... -
N.A.C.L – R.W. Gray’s “The Bends” from his stellar collection, Crisp [short story]
Posted on January 28, 2011 | 1 CommentN.A.C.L. – R.W. Gray’s “The Bends” From his collection Crisp (NeWest, 2010) From the publisher: “Ranging from the mystical to the eccentric, Gray masterfully uncovers human reactions to loneliness and unrest through... -
N.A.C.L: “Thoreau,” from Tom Dawe’s Where Genesis Begins [poem]
Posted on January 13, 2011 | No CommentsFrom the Backcover: Where Genesis Begins is a collaboration of two of Newfoundland’s foremost artists: Tom Dawe, a profoundly visual poet, and Gerald Squires, a profoundly poetic painter. The book... -
N.A.C.L – Steven Mayoff’s “Home, James” from his award-winning collection Fatted-calf Blues [short story]
Posted on December 20, 2010 | No CommentsN.A.C.L. – Steven Mayoff’s “Home, James” From his collection Fatted-calf Blues (Turnstone Press, 2009) Fatted-calf Blues is the recent winner of the PEI Book Award for fiction, and was shortlisted for... -
N.A.C.L. – Elaine McCluskey’s “The Watermelon Social” [short story]
Posted on December 9, 2010 | 1 CommentN.A.C.L. – Elaine McCluskey’s “The Watermelon Social” “The Watermelon Social” was shortlisted for the 2004 Journey Prize, and is the title story from her 2006 book of shorts, The Watermelon Social (Gaspereau...
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