News & Extras
Update: 50 over 50 Issue News
Feb 20, 2024
When we set out to do this issue, we had no idea of the response it would receive. We are pleased (and a little overwhelmed) to say we received OVER ELEVEN HUNDRED submissions to this issue. With this huge amount of writers, we have had to change the way we originally wanted to handle things. […]
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UPDATE: Writers Contacted for Burning Up/ Burning Down
Jan 29, 2024
We have now contacted everyone we can accept for Burning Up/ Burning Down. If we have not contacted you, we would like to thank you for submitting and encourage you to try us again in the future.
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2023 Contest Winners Announced!
Jan 15, 2024
Congratulations to our 2023 contest winners and a big ‘Thank You’ to our judges, Bertrand Bickersteth, Jeanette Lynes & Conor Kerr! You can check out a preview of the winning pieces by clicking here.
Read MoreAnnual Donor Campaign Prize Package Winner Selected!
Jan 10, 2024
Thank you to everyone who donated to our annual donor campaign! The winner of this year’s prize package has been contacted. We truly appreciate all of your donations, big or small, or even just kind words. You all are the best.
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Double Review! Straggle: Adventures in Walking While Female by Tanis MacDonald & Field Notes on Listening by Kit Dobson
Dec 8, 2023
Walking is one of the most appropriate ways to appreciate one’s community, environment, and place in the world. And to walk with intention is to listen. As Rebecca Solnit writes: “Walking, ideally, is a state in which the mind, the body, and the world are aligned, as though they were three characters in conversation together, […]
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Burning Up/ Burning Down Update
Dec 6, 2023
Hi everyone! We just wanted to let you know, we’re running a little behind and acceptances will be sent out early to mid-January instead of mid-December. Also, introducing our guest editor: Sue Goyette! Sue Goyette lives in K’jipuktuk (Halifax) and has published nine books of poems and a novel. Her new collections are Monoculture (Gaspereau Press, 2022) and A […]
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