tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-104206082024-03-06T23:12:26.813-08:00Den Page of Casey June Wolf“Wolf uses different genres, different voices, different cultures—in short whatever she needs to make the story work. What ties it all together is her sure-handed prose and a depth she brings to her writing, that indefinable element that rises up from between the lines and gives a good story its resonance…
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—To buy Finding Creatures & Other Stories: www.redtuquebooks.ca/pages/F-9780981065809.htmCasey Wolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06395893286138513369noreply@blogger.comBlogger226125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10420608.post-32100433672397418602020-09-08T18:42:00.007-07:002020-09-08T18:51:06.058-07:00“Eating Our Young” Rises Again!<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ30KQ1enFhWTwqeSMtcW4IwvyTcD2cmNyKIXtqF4HOkg73cjpNxpT9unhgb-aWpGFBVjc0uWKNXf_UCKdp4PuabEZErJV9WeehRACwPYS-VAU9by_U8gqgyJKAFwYdfuQy0k/s700/Exile+43.2+%2528Eating+Our+Young+-+Aug+2020%2529.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="560" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ30KQ1enFhWTwqeSMtcW4IwvyTcD2cmNyKIXtqF4HOkg73cjpNxpT9unhgb-aWpGFBVjc0uWKNXf_UCKdp4PuabEZErJV9WeehRACwPYS-VAU9by_U8gqgyJKAFwYdfuQy0k/s320/Exile+43.2+%2528Eating+Our+Young+-+Aug+2020%2529.png" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>“Eating Our Young” is a grim allegory about the way families can unthinkingly consume their members, told from the perspective of the youngest members of one family. First published in <i>The Speed of Dark</i>, edited by Clayton Bye (2013), it has been published in the current edition of Exile magazine in a selection of works by four authors from the upcoming speculative fiction anthology, <i>The Food of My People</i>. I'm happy to have this story see the light of day again.</p><p>You can find <i>Exile </i>magazine wherever Canadian literary journals are sold, or it can be ordered directly from the publisher <i><a href="http://www.exilequarterly.com/product/43-2/" target="_blank">here</a></i>.</p><p><br /></p><p> </p>Casey Wolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06395893286138513369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10420608.post-10518485192337623162020-09-08T17:03:00.006-07:002020-09-08T17:10:20.404-07:00“Mrs. Zaberewsky” Rises Again<p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeDXJjG9Bu6HS8xN_D4BMW1Hq4A5VwUJEAIUyX1GkVM8wtrAXlVqctnAQQWDV8dPAqe71oE9VL3qQB-R-imk8hZo4PLb1z4AEBLA4IgwQFhNl8VnTRbNMkg8XAEdZwKLnRCj4/s1000/aurora_borealis_northern_lights.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="288" data-original-width="1000" height="115" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeDXJjG9Bu6HS8xN_D4BMW1Hq4A5VwUJEAIUyX1GkVM8wtrAXlVqctnAQQWDV8dPAqe71oE9VL3qQB-R-imk8hZo4PLb1z4AEBLA4IgwQFhNl8VnTRbNMkg8XAEdZwKLnRCj4/w400-h115/aurora_borealis_northern_lights.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p>If you have ever longed to follow your artistic dream, only to have it squelched again and again, you will cheer on Witka, the protagonist of “Mrs. Zaberewsky.”</p><p>I was pleased to learn a week or so ago that the story “Mrs. Zaberewsky” was going to be published again, this time in a “Best Of” anthology from the free online speculative fiction magazine, <i>Polar Borealis</i>. Edited by Rhea Rose, it features short stories and poetry, and a fair whack of both; due to the tight word limit fr <i>PB</i>, there was room for more than the usual number of stories for a given anthology.</p><p>It features work by Y. M. Pang, Mary Choo, Taral Wayne and Walt Wentz, Lisa Timpf, Michael Donoghue, and many more.</p><p><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: arial;"><b><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Click </span><a href="http://polarborealis.ca/" style="background-color: black;" target="_blank">HERE </a><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">to reach Polar Borealis Magazine: A Free Online Magazine Devoted to Canadian Speculative Fiction</span></b></span></p><p>created by <a href="https://amazingstories.com/author/r-graeme-cameron/" target="_blank">R. Graeme Cameron</a>.</p><p><i>Pssst! Hey, you! Yes, </i>YOU--<i>the one who can't wait till the anthology comes out to find out about Witka in “Mrs. Zaberewsky.” Check out issue number one, <a href="http://polarborealis.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/POLAR-BOREALIS-1-Jan-Feb-2016.pdf" target="_blank">here</a>. </i></p>Casey Wolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06395893286138513369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10420608.post-84309692828726570622020-03-08T00:03:00.000-08:002020-03-08T00:03:20.335-08:00Casey Interviews Eileen Kernaghan (in Bruce Gillespie's SF Commentary 101)<br />
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It's pretty much all in the title, folks. Follow this <a href="https://efanzines.com/SFC/SFC101L.pdf" target="_blank">link</a> to read the pdf of Australian SF fan Bruce Gillespie's latest fanzine, including an interview with the wonderful Eileen Kernaghan, long-time Canadian writer of scrumptious fantasy.<br />
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The launch for the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/NewBeginningsBook/" target="_blank">New Beginnings</a> anthology is right around the corner, and I'm looking forward to it. A portion of the proceeds from sales of this extremely varied collection are going to support <a href="https://sharesociety.ca/" target="_blank">Share Family and Community Services</a>. <i>New Beginnings </i>and it's support of Share are the brain children of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TimbercrestPublishing/" target="_blank">Erik D'Souza</a>, author and now publisher in the Lower Mainland's Tri-Cities area. </div>
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Actors use only vocal expression to help the audience understand the story …
This style of performance of literature was initially lauded because it
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #b6d7a8;">The Pallahaxi Players
is a group of fans and authors who like to perform (scripts in hand) short
plays for the audiences of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/VCON.canada/?ref=br_rs">VCon</a>—Vancouver’s
premier science fiction, fantasy, and gaming convention. We are following in
the tradition of Lonely Cry Theatre, founded by Michael G. Coney, who with
fellow writers and hangers on entertained VCon audiences for years. Our name is
an homage to the world found in his novels <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hello,
Summer, Goodbye </i>(alternately published as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rax </i>and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pallahaxi Tide</i>)
and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I Remember Pallahaxi</i>.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #b6d7a8;">Recipient of the British
Science Fiction Association Award, one Nebula, and five Aurora Awards, Michael G.
Coney was a well loved man and an influential writer in the 1970s British
Invasion, writing a variety of works that often lulled the reader into thinking
she was reading fantasy only to discover it was finely wrought science fiction.
Humour, character, place, and plot all played a large part in Mike’s works. He is
greatly missed by those who knew him.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #b6d7a8;">This year at VCon, as
part of our celebration of the British Invasion, the Pallahaxi Players will be
performing Mike’s first Lonely Cry offering, “Sex and Perversion in Gnomedom.”</span></span></div>
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42/Canvention 38: Science Fiction, Fantasy and Games: 5-7 October 2018</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">. Hosted by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/WCSFA.Canada/"><span style="text-decoration: none;">WCSFA - West Coast Science Fiction
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think that [writing] has taught me always to be completely honest with the
reader and never allow myself to take the easy way out for the sake of glib
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #b6d7a8;">Casey June Wolf’s first
contact with Mike Coney’s books (“though I’d known Mike and his Lonely Cry Readers
Theatre for some years”): “<a href="https://cjunewolfden.blogspot.ca/2005/09/pallahaxi-mike.html">Pallahaxi
Mike</a>,” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="https://cjunewolfden.blogspot.ca/2005/09/pallahaxi-mike.html">Den Page of
Casey June Wolf</a></i>, Friday, September 16, 2005.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Coney: <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Science-fiction writer whose
readability hid inner depths</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">”
by <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/profile/christopher-priest">Christopher
Priest</a></span>. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Guardian</i>, Thu
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Spyglass: an Interview with Mike Coney</a> by <a href="http://strangehorizons.com/author/c-june-wolf/">C. June Wolf</a>. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://strangehorizons.com/">Strange
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Summer, Goodbye and I Remember Pallahaxi by Michael G. Coney</a>” by <a href="http://strangehorizons.com/author/colin-harvey/">Colin Harvey</a>. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://strangehorizons.com/">Strange
Horizons</a></i>, Issue: <a href="http://strangehorizons.com/issue/28-july-2008/">28 July 2008</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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June Wolf. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4XiaQqU09wOlXCVomd2JcA">FintanSparky</a>,
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<span style="background-color: #38761d; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Enjoy "Delta Marsh" and all the other offerings of writing and art that DeLuca has pulled together for you.</span><br />
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I am very happy to note that two of my stories, one new and the other a reprint, have been accepted for the anthology, <i><a href="http://www.ursulapflug.ca/food-people-call-subs/" target="_blank">The Food of My People</a></i>, edited by Ursula Pflug and Candas Jane Dorsey.<br />
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"The One That Gets Away", set on the west coast of Vancouver Island, tells the story of a man obsessed with fishing for dogfish from a pier.<br />
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"<a href="http://cjunewolfden.blogspot.ca/2012/12/story-sale-eating-our-young.html" target="_blank">Eating Our Young</a>", which was first published in the small press anthology, <i><a href="http://shop.claytonbye.com/index.php?route=product/product&manufacturer_id=11&product_id=76" target="_blank">The Speed of Dark</a></i>, looks at the plight of two young children who are regularly eaten by their family and left to recover.<br />
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I suppose they sound equally grim, in a way, but the one is an exploration, an awakening, and the other is a painful close-up of unwitting cruelty and its effects.<br />
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One of the requirements of the book is a recipe to go with each story. Both of these were a challenge for me, considering I don't actually eat sharks or children. But in the end I was able to find recipes that made sense with the stories, and now I am eagerly awaiting the publication of the book, so that I can discover all the other stories presented in the book.Casey Wolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06395893286138513369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10420608.post-4450449391613981122018-01-04T21:29:00.002-08:002018-01-05T11:21:25.849-08:00"Delta Marsh" published in Reckoning 2<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #ffd966;">I'm happy to report that my story "Delta Marsh" is included in this year's <a href="http://reckoning.press/" target="_blank">Reckoning</a> magazine (Reckoning 2). The story burbled up one day many years ago when I made a visit to the marsh and the research station there. I left it for ages and then came across it again, rewrote it, and discovered Michael J. deLuca's wonderful magazine. It felt like a great fit for the story and how lovely that the editor agreed. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #ffd966;">I've also recorded a podcast of the story (at the Vancouver Public Library's wonderful and free <a href="https://www.vpl.ca/inspirationlab" target="_blank">Inspiration Lab</a>)--Michael will likely post it when my story is made available on the website. The way this works is, over the next few months the stories listed in the table of contents below will be put up on the website. So if you want to have a read of the stories very very gradually, you can get them this way. (Though they won't be a lovely epub download like the full anthology). "Delta Marsh" will probably come out at the end of March. I'll keep you posted.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #ffd966;">Here's a little idea of what you will find in the journal, and links to where you can buy it ($7 US). Michael is also going to be releasing the stories one at a time online, though I'm not sure exactly where. Check </span><a href="http://reckoning.press/" target="_blank">here </a><span style="color: #ffd966;">to see what's up.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #ffd966;">Cover: Rebirth – Archan Nair</span><br />
<span style="color: #ffd966;">Disintigreetings – Pepe Rojo</span><br />
<span style="color: #ffd966;">Once It Was a Tree – Oneslutriot</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffd966;">Earthspun – Krista Hoeppner Leahy</span><br />
<span style="color: #ffd966;">The Bull Who Bars the Gate to Heaven – Zella Christensen</span><br />
<span style="color: #ffd966;">I’m the Villain, Ok? – Mary Alexandra Agner</span><br />
<span style="color: #ffd966;">A Hundred Years From Now – Mohammad Shafiqul Islam</span><br />
<span style="color: #ffd966;">Development – F.J. Bergmann</span><br />
<span style="color: #ffd966;">Will We Be Good and Kind At The End – Kelly Madden</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffd966;">A Wispy Chastening – D.A. Xaolin Spires</span><br />
<span style="color: #ffd966;">Rumpelstiltskin – Jane Elliott</span><br />
<span style="color: #ffd966;">To the Place of Skulls – Innocent Ilo</span><br />
<span style="color: #ffd966;">Girl Singing with Farm – Kathrin Köhler</span><br />
<span style="color: #ffd966;">The Complaint of All Living Things – Joanne Rixon</span><br />
<span style="color: #ffd966;">Fourth-Dimensional Tessellations of the American College Graduate – Marie Vibbert</span><br />
<span style="color: #ffd966;">Delta Marsh – Casey June Wolf</span><br />
<span style="color: #ffd966;">The Shale Giants – Marissa Lingen</span><br />
<span style="color: #ffd966;">An Oasis of Amends – Floris M. Kleijne</span><br />
<span style="color: #ffd966;">The Alice Grey – Santiago Belluco</span><br />
<span style="color: #ffd966;">Lanny Boykin Rises Up Singing – Jess Barber</span><br />
<span style="color: #ffd966;">Night of No Return – Grace Seybold</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffd966;">Editor’s Note: On Having a Kid in the Climate Apocalypse – Michael J. DeLuca</span><br />
<span style="color: #ffd966;">A Ghost Can Only Take – Justin Howe</span><br />
<span style="color: #ffd966;">From Paris, With Rage – George F.</span><br />
<span style="color: #ffd966;">‘You are from the U.S.’ – Yukyan Lam</span><br />
<span style="color: #ffd966;">A Kinder And More Caring Future? – Brian Francis Slattery</span><br />
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I was happy to read today that two of the poems from my soon-to-be-finished collection <i>Sun Among Stars: </i><i>Poems </i><i>& </i><i>Prayers </i><i>to Brigit of Ireland</i>, will be published in the upcoming anthology <i><a href="https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/harp-club-and-cauldron-a-harvest-of-knowledge#/" target="_blank">Harp, Club, and Cauldron: A Harvest of Knowledge</a>.</i> The subject is the Irish god An Dagda, The Good God, so named because he was good at everything. The book will feature essays, poetry, and whatever else editors Lora O’Brien and Morpheus Ravenna find worthy of their collection. The poems will be published under my Brigidine name, Mael Brigde. (Bet you didn't know I had such a thing, did you?)<br />
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I am happy about the poems, but I am also excited about the book. I trust these editors to select well thought out works, and the Dagda is a personage I am drawn to in many ways, due only in part to his being the father of the goddess Brigit, who is of special interest to me. I look forward to reading what people have to say about him.<br />
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He is a king, a druid, a war chieftain, a lover, and a worker of the land. He nourishes and he kills, he loves and he fights, in equal measure. He knows the sorcerous arts of druidry and the secrets of time. He is the Dagda - the mightiest of all the Irish Gods, and yet he is often overlooked in popular approaches to the Irish Gods. We’re here to tell his story, and we need you to help make that possible.</div>
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Eel and Otter Press is proud to bring you <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">Harp, Club and Cauldron</strong></i>: a curated anthology of scholarship, lore, practice and creative writings on the Dagda. This project is spearheaded and edited by <a href="http://www.loraobrien.com/" rel="noopener nofollow" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #eb1478; text-decoration-line: none;">Lora O’Brien</a> and <a href="http://bansheearts.com/" rel="noopener nofollow" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #eb1478; text-decoration-line: none;">Morpheus Ravenna</a>, respected authors and long-term practitioners of Irish spirituality. We’re teaming up with a stellar lineup of authors, artists, and spiritual practitioners to produce a volume as rich with knowledge and spiritual sustenance as the Dagda’s inexhaustible cauldron. We’re gathering in a harvest of original, in-depth scholarship on the lore, history, and cultural context of the Dagda, insightful reflections on his place in living Irish culture and religion, beautiful devotional rites and tools for the practitioner, and gorgeous devotional artwork.</div>
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Of course, there are costs to getting this book published and that’s why we’re launching this campaign. We believe authors and artists should be paid well for quality work, and there are publishing costs to cover. So we need you to join this campaign and help us welcome the Dagda.</div>
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Our vision for this book distills the scholarship, experience, and creative vision of the Irish and Celtic spirituality communities to bring you a harvest of knowledge. The book will feature:</div>
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Casey Wolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06395893286138513369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10420608.post-48376636837395984962017-10-18T19:32:00.000-07:002017-10-18T19:32:10.577-07:00“In Days and Nights the World is Spent”<br />
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I was delighted this week to receive a small package of books from<a href="http://www.redtuquebooks.ca/" target="_blank"> Red Tuque</a>. This is the seventh and final anthology in their Canadian Tales series: <i><b><span style="color: white;">Canadian Tales of the Fantastic Volume VII</span></b></i>. My story “Posture of the Infinite” appeared in number four, in 2014. In this volume my Scottish ghost story, “In Days and Nights the World is Spent”, has found a home.<br />
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Unfortunately for the masses, the print run sold out immediately and there won't be a reprinting. I suppose that is a bit disappointing for me, too. But c'est la vie.<br />
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If you are looking for a copy, let me know. I don't have many so it's first come, first served.<br />
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<i>Cheers!</i><br />
<br />Casey Wolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06395893286138513369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10420608.post-62033508698055902702017-02-26T16:20:00.001-08:002017-02-26T16:22:02.476-08:00Your Death Full of Flowers<br />
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At last I am able to reveal that I have several poems coming out in a breathtaking new anthology edited by Slippery Elm (who also translated the poems into Spanish, or from Spanish into English). Let me quote from the website:<br />
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<span class="m_6487960326073619431gmail-s1"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://vimaambi.blogspot.ca/2017/02/your-death-full-of-flowers.html" target="_blank"><span class="il">Your</span> <span class="il">Death</span> <span class="il">Full</span> of <span class="il">Flowers</span></a></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="m_6487960326073619431gmail-s1"><i>A bouquet of poems arranged and translated by Slippery Elm</i></span></div>
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<span class="m_6487960326073619431gmail-s1">The thread that ties this bouquet together is that of the story of Blodeuwedd from the Mabinogion. A woman composed of <span class="il">flowers</span>, who sought to kill her husband, and was thereby transformed into an owl. Blodeuwedd meaning <span class="il">flower</span>-face, and the owl said to have been called blodeuwedd in the Welsh of yore. </span></div>
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<span class="m_6487960326073619431gmail-s1">Just as the wizard Gwydion gathered blossoms of broom, meadowsweet, and trefoil, the editor gathers the poems to conjure something greater, a something that then goes on to wing the poetry out into the world. A deadly and nefarious agenda in the eyes of the princes of our age, or of those who are their followers and find no love or meaning but in their expendable busts. </span></div>
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<span class="m_6487960326073619431gmail-s1">In the garden of these pages we encounter the whimsy and abandon of the eccentric who goes through life, toothless and in colourful rags, giving out <span class="il">flowers</span> just because. Who heard the patter of <span class="il">Death</span>’s slippers by their nightstand and received him with a bouquet. Who throws <span class="il">flowers</span> at grooms and graves, and awoke suddenly as the rose’s final petal fell. We encounter the lyric and litany, the poison, the perfume, the lament, the laughter, and the eschatological love poem. The <span class="il">flowers</span> that open above us. </span></div>
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<span class="m_6487960326073619431gmail-s1"><span class="il">Flowers</span> have been plucked from a well pick’d troop of poets, poets of the other breath, of the diverse brushstroke and the obscure melody. Major figures in English, Spanish, Arabic, American, and Welsh literatures, as well as newly emerging voices. Poets both young and old, and poets dead as much as living. Poets who have proven themselves worthy of the appellation, not just through prizes, accolades or infamy but through a certain generosity of the spirit and a marked commitment to the Poetry. This almost spiritual pedigree, of wise innocence, of beatific inspiration, might be boiled down into two words, which in some ways, are each a reflection of the other. For the old: trust. For the young: bravery. </span></div>
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<span class="m_6487960326073619431gmail-s1">All poems appear in English and Spanish, and one in Arabic. The two languages form a dialectic in which meaning is generated in the space between them. It is in this hermeneutic tension between the Yes and the No, at the interstice between the two different tongues, between the dead nettle and white archangel, right in the centre of the book, that the beginning of an answer is given to the riddle of all riddles. </span></div>
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<span class="m_6487960326073619431gmail-s1">This book is a fairy dart tipped with a draught to re-enchant a chantless world. That the lector remember his or her mortality and live all the more fully for it. Our aim is true. We swear by all <span class="il">flowers</span>.</span></div>
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<span class="m_6487960326073619431gmail-s1">440 pages. 65 poems by 21 poets.</span></div>
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<span class="m_6487960326073619431gmail-s1"><span class="il">Flowers</span> of Flight</span></div>
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<span class="m_6487960326073619431gmail-s1"><span class="il">Flowers</span> of God Making</span></div>
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<span class="m_6487960326073619431gmail-s1">‘Where the Bee Sucks there Suck I’</span></div>
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<span class="m_6487960326073619431gmail-s1">Women of Gardens and Gore</span></div>
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<span class="m_6487960326073619431gmail-s1"><span class="il">Your</span> Final Roses</span></div>
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<span class="m_6487960326073619431gmail-s1">Adler Frischauer</span></div>
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<span class="m_6487960326073619431gmail-s1">Antler</span></div>
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<span class="m_6487960326073619431gmail-s1">Casey June Wolf </span></div>
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<span class="m_6487960326073619431gmail-s1">David ap Gwilym</span></div>
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<span class="m_6487960326073619431gmail-s1">Elena Botica</span></div>
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<span class="m_6487960326073619431gmail-s1">Emilio Montaño</span></div>
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<span class="m_6487960326073619431gmail-s1">Erynn Rowan Laurie</span></div>
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<span class="m_6487960326073619431gmail-s1">Giles Watson</span></div>
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<span class="m_6487960326073619431gmail-s1">Ian Kappos</span></div>
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<span class="m_6487960326073619431gmail-s1">Lawrence Ferlinghetti</span></div>
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<span class="m_6487960326073619431gmail-s1">MAAM (Maria de los Angeles Argote Molina)</span></div>
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<span class="m_6487960326073619431gmail-s1">Mahmoud Darwish</span></div>
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<span class="m_6487960326073619431gmail-s1">Mike Mahoney</span></div>
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<span class="m_6487960326073619431gmail-s1">Nicolas Ramajo Chiacchio</span></div>
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<span class="m_6487960326073619431gmail-s1">P. Sufenas Virius Lupus</span></div>
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<span class="m_6487960326073619431gmail-s1">Robert Graves</span></div>
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Casey Wolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06395893286138513369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10420608.post-31459599910768999152016-10-13T20:40:00.000-07:002016-10-13T20:41:27.127-07:00A Song for the Stars (& Trekkers)<br />
Greetings, Earthlings.<br />
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I am recovering from the whirl of <a href="http://vcon.ca/" target="_blank">VCon 41</a>, at which the Pallahaxi Players read <a href="https://www.facebook.com/carlos.lozanogilabert" target="_blank">Carlos Lozano Gilabert</a>'s play <i>Deep North</i>, and at which I participated in a writers workshop, attended and participated in panels, contributed my usual <i>joie de prose pourpre</i> (or "joy of purple prose": apologies to actual French speakers), ran around after The Kids, AND SO ON.<br />
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But for the moment I want to bring to your attention something that had nothing to do with me at all, except that I was lucky enough to be at the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMp4VfkVuX8" target="_blank">Opening Ceremony</a> and perfectly seated to film <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/KarlJohanson42" target="_blank">Karl Johanson</a>, editor of<a href="http://www.neo-opsis.ca/about.htm" target="_blank"> <i>Neo-Opsis Magazine</i></a>, sing his stirring anthem in honour of Star Trek's Fiftieth Anniversary.<br />
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Attend:<br />
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It's that time again, folks--the time when you look at my blog and think, oh! She's <i>not</i> dead!<br />
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No, she's not. And this year I will be as active as ever at VCon. I am gathering my forces (two nieces, a nephew, a friend, and an honorary nephew) and storming the Sheraton Vancouver Guildford Hotel in Surrey for the weekend.<br />
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I've agitated until a panel I want to see (not be in) was organized:<br />
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This is special to my heart as I was once a reader of, and occasional producer of, fanzines (I still read faithfully a couple of zines, such as Bruce Gillespie's Science Fiction Commentary.) For years I had a beautiful Gestetner machine in my kitchen--indeed, as a young pup my main job at my place of employ was tending to the Gestetner room. Now I get to sit back and listen to tales of yore from them that was there. Yippee!<br />
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The following morning we are staging another Pallahaxi Players event:<br />
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I'm excited about this one. Carlos Lozano Gilabert has been widely published in Mexico and Spain, but this is his first performance in Canada. His play involves the crash of a rescue plane in the far north of Canada, and things that go <i>AAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!</i> in the night.<br />
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I love reading with Eileen. We have been reading together, critiquing each other's works, and generally getting buzzed on writing for many years now. I will be reading from my latest publication, "Fog". Eileen is being coy about what she will read, but as one of my all time favourite authors (and I really do mean that, I am not just out-gassing because she's my friend) I know I will enjoy whatever it is.<br />
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On Saturday morning I get to enjoy the usual In Camera Writers Workshop, which critiques I am almost finished doing now. This is followed by:<br />
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Always a favourite for me, when we in the front of the room get to go over the top in reading aloud from, shall we say <i>purple?</i> science fiction novels of past glory, while audience members act them out, and others pay good money to make them stop. And start. And stop... A fund raiser for the Canadian Unity Fan Fund. A good last hurrah for me before I get to flake up to the hospitality suite for a cuppa joe.<br />
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See you there?<br />
<br />Casey Wolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06395893286138513369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10420608.post-3401237370366443372016-07-05T11:59:00.001-07:002016-07-05T12:00:38.414-07:00"Fog"<br />
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Strangely Different Stories ... The Nettle Tree, edited by Kenneth Weene and Clayton Bye, is a collection of genre stretching and busting stories by some of the most talented writers we have. Their challenge was to write strangely different western stories in a format of 3,000 words or less and to take you to places traditional westerns have never taken you. We think they have succeeded admirably. And with powerhouse writers, some known and others whom readers will find delightful discoveries, you will not be disappointed.</div>
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I have been sawing away at a tremendously huge poetry collection for the last couple of years, sending out the odd one but mostly just writing and writing and editing some more. All very different from the story writing that used to be my focus. However, I did pop out one story recently in response to a call for submissions, and had "Fog" accepted for the upcoming anthology <i>The Nettle Tree</i>, a collection of strangely different westerns. I have also had several poems accepted for the upcoming <i>Your Death Full of Flowers</i>, and yes, flowers are pretty much the main focus, but in myth and spirit settings. Both of these are poised to be published in the fall.<br />
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Also in the fall, <a href="http://vcon.ca/" target="_blank">VCon 41</a>. Looking forward as usual to the fun and frolic.<br />
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Theme: Muppets, Puppets and Marionettes Friday, September 30 – Sunday October 2, 2016.<br />
At the Sheraton Vancouver Guildford Hotel.<br />
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Here's a <a href="http://vcon%20and%20science%20fiction%20on%20soapbox%20radio/" target="_blank">wee spot from Co-Op Radio about VCon 41</a>.<br />
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See you there!<br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><u style="font-style: italic;">Image:</u> <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blue_mountains_and_forest.jpg" target="_blank">By Steve Hillebrand, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.</a></span>Casey Wolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06395893286138513369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10420608.post-64501287936102677622016-02-04T16:32:00.002-08:002016-02-04T16:32:51.394-08:00"This is for Mrs Zaberewsky" in Issue #1 of Polar Borealis<br />
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<a href="http://amazingstoriesmag.com/authors/r-graeme-cameron/" target="_blank">R. Graeme Cameron</a>, known and loved by SF fen the world over (especially on the Wet Coast), has launched a new semi-prozine called <a href="http://amazingstoriesmag.com/2016/01/the-clubhouse-fanzine-reviews-the-madness-of-magazine-editing/" target="_blank">Polar Borealis</a>, in which he hopes to feature beginning writers, with a few oldtimers like myself to help out.<br />
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To my delight, my niece Flora Jo Zenthoefer has the lead story in the zine--"Paperwork for Mazes". My own silly story, "This is for Mrs Zaberewsky", falls somewhere around page 38.<br />
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Thanks to Graeme for his energy and encouragement for young writers--Graeme has been running the VCon Writers Workshops for some years now, among his many other fannish offerings.<br />
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Download a <a href="http://www.obirmagazine.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/POLAR-BOREALIS-1-Jan-Feb-2016.pdf" target="_blank">free copy</a> of Polar Borealis and get reading!<br />
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<span style="color: white; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: background1;">and stealth yoga in the back yard every night.<br />
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Casey Wolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06395893286138513369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10420608.post-777750633177975482015-09-19T20:57:00.001-07:002015-09-19T20:57:31.968-07:00VCon Rollin' On In One More TimeyWhimey<br />
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Nearly there! The yearly con approaches.<br />
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As for <a href="http://www.vcon.ca/" target="_blank">VCon</a>! Time Travel is the theme. I'll have niblings Flora and Jules in tow, as well as their pa, and will be up to the usual at the Writers Workshops (which Flora is attending for the second year), Turkey Readings, and some more serious readings, as well.<br />
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See you there!<br />
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<a href="http://www.vcon.ca/attend/guests-honour/joe-haldeman" style="color: #2782de; font-weight: inherit; text-decoration: none;"><strong>JOE HALDEMAN</strong></a><br /><span class="text-primary">Author GoH<br />(The Forever War, The Accidental Time Machine)</span></h3>
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<a href="http://www.vcon.ca/attend/guests-honour/ed-greenwood" style="color: #2782de; font-weight: inherit; text-decoration: none;"><strong>ED GREENWOOD</strong></a><br /><span class="text-primary">Game Design GoH<br />(The Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting and Novels)</span></h3>
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<a href="http://www.vcon.ca/attend/guests-honour/rick-sternbach" style="color: #2782de; font-weight: inherit; text-decoration: none;"><strong>RICK STERNBACH</strong></a><br /><span class="text-primary">Artist GoH<br />(Illustrator - Star Trek & others)</span></h3>
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<a href="http://www.vcon.ca/attend/guests-honour/eric-choi" style="color: #2782de; font-weight: inherit; text-decoration: none;"><strong>ERIC CHOI</strong></a><br /><span class="text-primary">Editor GoH<br />(</span>The Dragon and the Stars, Carbide Tipped Pens<span class="text-primary">)</span></h3>
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<a href="http://www.vcon.ca/attend/guests-honour/steve-forty" style="color: #2782de; font-weight: inherit; text-decoration: none;"><strong>STEVE FORTY</strong></a><br /><span class="text-primary">Fan GoH</span></h3>
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<strong style="line-height: 1.42857;">Come join us for three days of fannish fun and multi-track programming including:</strong></div>
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<span class="text-muted">Art Show & Auction • Vendors Hall • Author Readings • 24-Hour Games Rooms<br />Multi-Author Book Launch • Writers Workshops • Demos • Academie Duello<br />Artists Alley • Frankenstuffies • Fan Groups • Costume Contest • Panels<br />Hospitality Suite • Dance • Elrons • Turkey Readings • Workshops</span></div>
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Casey Wolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06395893286138513369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10420608.post-56740189668636161492014-10-31T16:31:00.000-07:002014-10-31T16:31:18.120-07:00Hey Val<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Casey Wolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06395893286138513369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10420608.post-25045043537152485692014-10-21T12:30:00.001-07:002014-10-21T12:30:59.773-07:00Alteration to Schedule, Surrey Muse: Val's Poems Read Early<br />
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Doesn't sound like much of a news flash but if you were thinking of not going on Friday because you are not able to stay up (or out) late in the evening, this could make the difference in whether you go.<br />
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It's been decided to read Val's poems at the beginning of the evening rather than reserving them for the end, when the Open Mic usually occurs. So the info again is:<br />
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<span style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.9149990081787px;">There will be a </span><a href="http://surreymuse.wordpress.com/2014/10/06/october-24-gathering-of-surrey-muse-tribute-to-valerie-b-taylor/" style="background-color: #446666; color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.9149990081787px;" target="_blank">Tribute Gathering</a><span style="background-color: #446666; color: #cceedd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.9149990081787px;"> for Valerie with various performers at City Centre Library in Surrey, room 418, behind the Surrey Central SkyTrain station, on Friday, 24 October from 5:30-8:30 PM.</span><br />
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Thanks, Surrey Muse!<br />
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<br />Casey Wolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06395893286138513369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10420608.post-68339408077553395062014-10-17T10:23:00.002-07:002014-10-20T10:36:18.660-07:00Valerie B-Taylor's Celebration of Life<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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on Saturday, 8 November 2014</div>
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from 2 PM till 8 PM<br />
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Casey Wolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06395893286138513369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10420608.post-39555203782015623432014-10-09T16:02:00.001-07:002014-10-09T18:02:19.376-07:00Goodbye to a Friend<br />
Dear friend and writer Valerie B-Taylor died while we were having fun at VCon, unaware that, far from getting better during her stay at hospital, she was letting go of her life. It is a very sad parting, and I so wish I had had the chance to say goodbye.<br />
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Valerie was filled with humour and compassion. She was audacious and bold in her writing and her life; we called her seat in our writers group The Naughty Seat because of what she brought to it so many times. Yet she also brought encouragement, joy, deep sorrow, fierce protectiveness, and a wild intelligence that I will miss for years to come.<br />
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Goodbye, dear one. Thank you for your love and wisdom. Many blessings on your journey.<br />
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Valerie was, among other supportive roles in the writing community, the president of New West Writers. This is something she posted on their <a href="http://newwestwriters.wordpress.com/#comment-2565" target="_blank">site</a>:<br />
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The video above shows Valerie as she receives a
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There will be a <a href="http://surreymuse.wordpress.com/2014/10/06/october-24-gathering-of-surrey-muse-tribute-to-valerie-b-taylor/" target="_blank">Tribute Gathering</a> for Valerie with various performers at City Centre Library in Surrey, room 418, behind the Surrey Central SkyTrain station, on Friday, 24 October from 5:30-8:30 PM.<br />
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Thanks to Eileen Kernagahn, our leader at the Kyle Center Writers Workshop, for making space for us to grieve and celebrate Valerie today, and to Eileen Mackenzie for bringing in her written memoir of Val, which opened the gates for all of us to speak who needed to.</div>
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Casey Wolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06395893286138513369noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10420608.post-38753968445542101942014-10-09T15:30:00.000-07:002014-10-09T16:16:23.843-07:00Sitting In For SF Canada<span style="color: #ffd966;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #ffd966;">Well, this is fun. <a href="http://www.warpworld.ca/" target="_blank">Kristene Perron</a> of SF Canada sent in this photo of me staffing the SFC table at VCon 39.</span><br />
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<a href="http://northbynotwest.com/SFCanada-WP/?page_id=21" style="line-height: 1.3em;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">About SF Canada</span></a><br />
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<span style="color: #ffd966;">SF Canada was founded in 1989 as Canada’s National Association for Speculative Fiction Professionals, and was Incorporated as SF Canada in 1992.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffd966;">SF Canada exists to foster a sense of community among Canadian writers of speculative fiction, to improve communication, to foster the growth of quality writing, to lobby on behalf of Canadian writers, and to encourage the translation of Canadian speculative fiction. SF Canada supports positive social action.</span></div>
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Casey Wolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06395893286138513369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10420608.post-48908737011702477252014-10-08T09:42:00.002-07:002014-10-08T10:22:41.142-07:00VCon 39<br />
Survived the con, and a good time was had by all. Somehow I was always in a whirl--I still see tracks when I turn my head.<br />
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I especially hanging out with the kids--Frank, Jules, and Flora--and brother-in-law Nick, doing the Writers Workshop on Sunday, and the Turkey Readings shortly thereafter. Also enjoyable was reading with Eileen Kernaghan, she from her new novel <i>Sophie, In Shadow</i>, and me from "Posture of the Infinite", published in Red Tuque Books' <i>Canadian Tales of the Fantastic Vol. IV</i>.<br />
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Eileen won her third Prix Aurora Award on the weekend, to my (and I gather her) delight. From <a href="http://wattleanddaubbooks.blogspot.in/2014/10/2014-prix-aurora-award-for-best.html" target="_blank">Wattle and Daub Books</a>, who published her book of poetry:<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">Congratulations to Wattle and Daub Books author Eileen Kernaghan who this weekend won the</span><a href="http://www.prixaurorawards.ca/" style="background-color: white; color: #774c00; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.7900009155273px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"> 2014 Prix Aurora Award</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;"> for Best Poem or Song in English for “Night Journey: West Coast”, published in</span><a href="http://www.edgewebsite.com/books/tess17/t17-catalog.html" style="background-color: white; color: #774c00; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.7900009155273px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"> <i>Tesseracts Seventeen: Speculating Canada from Coast to Coast to Coast</i></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">, EDGE (2013).</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">For more of her excellent speculative poetry, her collection </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">Tales of the Holograph Woods: Speculative Poetry </i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">can be ordered </span><a href="http://www.redtuquebooks.ca/pages/P-9780981065823.htm" style="background-color: white; color: #774c00; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.7900009155273px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Best In Show! (And Man, Did She Deserve It.)</td></tr>
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<br />Casey Wolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06395893286138513369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10420608.post-72754323140877128592014-09-22T18:34:00.000-07:002014-09-22T18:34:20.115-07:00The Selfy Challenge<br />
One thing I am not pulling my weight on is getting good recent photos of me out there for the roaring fan-crowd to dream over. That, my friends, is about to change. I have taken<br />
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First, something serious and arty:<br />
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Next, something gay and quirky:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">(Confession: Not Actually a Selfy)</td></tr>
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One showing my deep appreciation of nature:<br />
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And finally, an image that truly defines my personality:<br />
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My work here is done.<div>
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