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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... -
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.... -
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 | 3 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... -
Several Atlantic Canadians, Of Course, Were Among Canadian Bookshelf’s “New Generation of CanLit” List … Have You Heard of Canadian Bookshelf Yet?
Posted on November 29, 2011 | No CommentsHave you heard of this great resource yet? Canadian Bookshelf’s goal is to “make it easier for readers to discover Canadian books.” Their motto is simple, “If it’s Canadian, it’s... -
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... -
Listen Up! The 2011 Atlantis Music Prize Top 10
Posted on November 25, 2011 | No CommentsThe only thing better than books is music. I was asked to be one of the 30 judges who helped craft the top 30, then the top 10 longlist of... -
Coady Cleans Up On Year End Best of Lists …
Posted on November 23, 2011 | No CommentsThey are only getting started, and already, Giller Prize Finalist Lynn Coady has been popping up on year end best of lists. Which, of course, is no surprise if you’ve... -
Give Michael’s Moustache Some Money …
Posted on November 21, 2011 | 3 CommentsAs the image indicates, Michael Winter would be a lot happier if you’d kindly sponsor his Movember moustache. In fact, if you make any sized donation, Michael will post a... -
15 Fun Facts about The GG Award for Fiction, Since the Winner Will be Announced Today
Posted on November 15, 2011 | No CommentsSince there are no Atlantic Canadians on this year’s English fiction shortlist, I recommend The Sisters Brothers. And here’s 15 fun facts about The GGs, for your reading pleasure … UPDATE:... -
Cuffer Prize Shortlist is Out … Chad Pelley Set to Set Two Records before Walking Away …
Posted on November 12, 2011 | 8 CommentsNewfoundland’s Cuffer Prize, now in its fourth year, has quickly become one of the most exciting and well-thought-out short fiction contests in Canada, awarding not one but three prizes at $2,000, $1,000, and... -
A Fun Chat with Kate Story on her New Novel, How Life Will “Kick the Shit out of You,” and the Universal Plight to Keep “Loving, Working, Opening, and Learning Anyway.”
Posted on November 11, 2011 | No CommentsWrecked Upon This Shore is the the second novel from Kate Story, whose story “Runaway” was shortlisted for the 2008 CBC Literary Award, and whose story “Flame Retarded” made Broken... -
Great Video Chat on Short Fiction, Including Input from Michael Winter and Leslie Vryenhoek, As promo for Giller-winner Johanna Skibsrud’s new Collection
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Last Year’s Giller Shortlist on This Year’s Giller shortlist = A lot of Love for Lynn Coady
Posted on November 8, 2011 | No CommentsNote: I interviewed these guys on October 1st … for that other blog I’d been neglecting Salty Ink for (and have since folded), so their answers are temporally challenged Tonight’s... -
Kathleen Winter and Beth Powning Make the Impac Longlist …
Posted on November 7, 2011 | No CommentsThe International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award is “the world’s largest prize for single work of fiction in the English language,” at €100,000, and “the most international prize of its kind.”... -
The Latest from Last Year’s Giller Winner, Johanna Skibsrud
Posted on November 7, 2011 | No CommentsIt’s not just that we were born in the same year that makes Johanna Skibsrud special. She also happened to win a little something called the Giller Prize last year,... -
How Indigo/Kobo Has Put Publishers in Checkmate
Posted on November 4, 2011 | 14 Comments“In the book industry, when you are in a situation where you know that 40 per cent of your business is going to go digital – you need to change.”... -
Wayne Johnston, David Adams Richards, More High Honours.
Posted on November 2, 2011 | No CommentsAt last night’s Writers’ Trust Awards, where Patrick DeWitt won the Rogers Writers Trust Fiction Award for his highly fantastic read, The Sisters Brothers,and Miranda Hill won this year’s Journey... -
Kenneth J. Harvey: Jack of all Genres, Bucking Rules and Breaking Records
Posted on October 26, 2011 | 1 CommentYou can’t pin the man down, or deny the success he’s had by being unconventional. Whether he’s writing an innovative work of literary fiction like Inside, inventing his own “transcomposite... -
Behind the Book … with Riel Nason
Posted on October 24, 2011 | 5 CommentsI met Riel Nason this spring in New Brunswick, at WordsSpring, so I’ve had a personalized reason to be anticipating her fall debut. And while The Town that Drowned might... -
Craig Francis Power’s Debut Crowned the Best Indie Novel of 2010 …!
Posted on October 22, 2011 | 1 CommentCraig Francis Power’s debut novel, Blood Relatives, won the ReLit award last night at the Ottawa... -
Jacob McArtur Mooney Earns International Honours!
Posted on October 21, 2011 | No CommentsJacob McArthur Mooney’s made the 2011 Dylan Thomas Prize shortlist. It’s an international-scale prize of high honour that recognizes exceptional authors under 30, in all genres. Mooney is an award-wining... -
Russell Wangersky and Wayne Johnston Make This Year’s Canada Reads Top 40!
Posted on October 18, 2011 | No CommentsThis year’s Canada Reads has gone all non-fiction. The theme is “True Stories.” I highly recommend Russell Wangersky’s visceral scorcher, Burning Down the House, which made the top 40 just now.... -
Author Nicole Lundrigan on Tackling Dark Subject Matter
Posted on October 17, 2011 | No 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. Glass Boys... -
Fresh Fish Award Shortlist is Out, with Upcoming Readings …
Posted on October 13, 2011 | 1 CommentThe Fresh Fish Award is a fantastic award for an unpublished manuscript, in any genre, by a Newfoundlander, and it comes with not only a $5000 prize, and not only...
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