By Laura Marshall The countdown begins. The ball drops. And everyone starts singing. Yes, the New Year has officially been rung in. And with the New Year comes the annual tradition of your New Year’s...
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Clarion West Write-a-Thon
In the summer of 2012, I attended Clarion West in Seattle where I had one of the single best experiences of my writerly life, and this year I’m going to participate in their Write-a-Thon program to raise money....
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Two Sisters. One Apartment.
As many of you know, in January Helen will be leaving the land of ice and snow to start her post-doc at Oxford University. And what’s more, today she turns the big 3-0! Helen and...
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World Fantasy Awards Announced
Congratulations to all the nominees for the World Fantasy Award! The World Fantasy Convention 2013 will be held in Brighton, United Kingdom. The fill list of nominees are: Life Achievement Winners Susan Cooper Tanith Lee Novel The...
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Crowd-sourcing sites such as indiegogo and Kickstarter have become popular places for authors, editors, and publishers to go to help fund projects they wouldn’t otherwise be able to make. And with your help we can get a Year’s Best Weird Fiction. The re-print anthology will be published by Undertow Publications (run by fellow Canadian Michael...
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The nominees for the British Fantasy Awards 2013 have been announced. We’re pleased to see some Canadian nominees including Brett Savory and Sandra Kasturi for Best Small Press for ChiZine Publications, Michael Kelly’s Shadows and Tall Trees for Best Magazine/Periodical, and of course our very own Helen Marshall for Best Newcomer (the Sydney J. Bounds Award) for her collection Hair Side, Flesh Side. Here...
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By Helen Marshall 2012 has come and gone bringing with it many exciting developments. When I look back on the past year, it feels as if it could have been an entire decade! A new book published, my first professional sale, Clarion West, an unspeakably high number of conventions (at least one of which...
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By Laura Marshall and Helen Marshall As we come to the end of another year it’s traditional to look back and reflect on the major events that happened in the past year. Well, in case you’ve been hiding under a rock[1] or hiding out in an exotic country[2] for the last year—you know, because of...
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Written by Helen I’m very pleased to announce that on Saturday at When Words Collide in Calgary my poetry chapbook Skeleton Leaves won the 2012 Aurora Award for Best Poem! Unfortunately I wasn’t able to be at the event, but from the influx of tweets, texts, and Facebook posts, I’m tremendous gratified at the response! I’ve been calling...
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