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Mark Sampson interviews Jamie Popowich about his book Chrome Kisses. https://canadianwritersabroad.com//hot-rodding-jamie-popo/

Literary festivals proliferate Next weekend is the Words Literary Festival here in London. I love this festival and volunteer every year. We have dozens of writers coming in from across the country to read their work, sign books and discuss their craft. There are workshops for writing poetry and screenwriting. Some great writers are coming include Jane Urquhart, Nino Ricci, Emma Donahue, one of my favourite Canadian novelist Lisa Moore is coming. As well, some great poets li...ke Susan Musgrave and Bill Bissett along with Insomniac poets Penn Kemp and Tom Cull. And it is all free. It starts with a gala on Friday night, that is a ticketed event. And the action continues on Saturday and Sunday. It all takes place the London Museum. I’ll put the URL for the festival up on my announcement. http://wordsfest.ca/ It is interesting that as traditional publishing is under so much strain, publishers cutting down on their lists, bookstores closing, literary festivals are proliferating. The festivals offer panel discussions, contests, music, films, but at their heart is the book and the author. In a world of plastic experiences, bland consumerism and obsessive binge watching, I find the literary festival provides a wonderfully authenticate experience, especially for my inner book nerd. It gives you the chance to hear authors read from their work, talk about their work, buy a physical book and get it signed. This opportunity restores a uniqueness, a reality of connecting readers and writers that can’t be found in an ebook or even in the solitary pursuit of reading, no matter how joyful that might be. So, let your inner book nerd run free, come to the festival.

In recognition of Labour Day, a day to campaign for better pay and working conditions, we’ve extended our submission period by a week! Send us your full-length manuscripts by September 7th. We’ve got a new mandate (anti-oppressive writing), new editorial board (including Acting Aquisitions Editor Jacqueline Valencia), and renewed dedication to safe, supportive, & transparent publishing. Submission requirements at insomniacpress.com/submissions

Only ten days left to submit to the new Insomniac! We’ve got a new mandate (anti-oppressive writing), new editorial board (including Acting Aquisitions Editor Jacqueline Valencia), and renewed dedication to safe, supportive, & transparent publishing: insomniacpress.com/submissions

We're very happy to announce our first open submission period under Insomniac's new editorial board! From July 13 to August 31, we're accepting manuscripts of fiction (short fiction & novel), literary non-fiction (essay & long-form), and poetry by Canadian authors. We welcome manuscripts that exhibit justice-oriented politics (including intersectional feminism, Indigenous sovereignty, anti-fascism, and climate justice); that are written by authors with BIPOC, LGBTQ2SIAA+, di...sabled, and low & precarious income backgrounds and experiences; and/or that embrace aesthetic nonconformity and experimentation. We also welcome submissions from past Insomniac authors, whose manuscript reviews will be fast-tracked. Should your manuscript be selected for publication, we will prioritize your right to work with an editor who shares your experiences. Our new mandate to amplify voices that resist oppression will guide the review and evaluation of all submissions. Our acting acquisitions editor for this period is Jacqueline Valencia. Details at https://www.insomniacpress.com/submissions

: (2nd edition) Appearing in a new edition for the first time in nearly 20 years, is a book of phases and of overarching vision. These poems are about place & family, belonging & separation, memory & transformation and the long path from shame, where such pairs can feel desperately opposed, to celebration, where loss and love intertwine. With extraordinary precision and se...nsuality, Dumont traces the powerful ways that landscape and language shape our character, our perceptions, and our futures. (she) is the author of the widely anthologized A Really Good Brown Girl (winner of The League of Canadian Poets 1997 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award), green girl dreams Mountains (winner of the Writers' Guild of Alberta 2002 Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry), that tongued belonging (winner of two McNally Robinson Booksellers 2007 Book of the Year awards), and The Pemmican Eaters (winner of the 2016 Stephansson Award). She has been faculty and writer-in-residence at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity and at universities, colleges, and libraries across Canada. In 2018, she was named a Life Member of the League of Canadian Poets. In 2019, she received a Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Arts Awards Distinguished Artist Award for her work as a poet articulating the Metis experience, as a mentor and teacher, and for her pivotal role in the flowering of Indigenous literature in Alberta and Canada. Marilyn Dumont’s support for a new generation of writers is leading to profound, progressive changes to the writing landscape....

: & (2nd edition) A survival manifesto remixed, revised, and updated, the second edition of & again asks us to consider our bodies as pathways to extremities of grief & joy and as sites of resistance, lineage, & testimony. Through the lens of a queer racialized immigrant woman, these poems explore both the tremendous suffering and the radiant possibilities of embodiment.... watch me, Wee demands, swallow / the hardest thing / my body has made / & live. Natalie Wee (she) is a queer Peranakan community-builder. Her work has won the Blue Mesa Review Summer Contest, been a finalist for the Best of the Net Anthology, been nominated for Pushcart Prizes, and been published in The Rumpus, Asian American Writers' Workshop, Gulf Coast, PRISM international, The Adroit Journal, and elsewhere. Born in Singapore to Malaysian parents, she is currently a settler in Tkaronto (Toronto).