Black and White and Read All Over

[shanmonster]

I did not win the Aurora award, but I'm totally fine with that. Y.M. Pang's poem Cthulhu on the Shores of Osaka won, and deservedly so. Go give it a read. It's brilliant and fun.

My shortlisted poem "Angakkuq" might not have won, but it will be published in a best-of anthology. I can't say which one yet, but will share when that information is available!

I found out my personal essay "The Friday Plane," about drugs and my near miss with Pablo Escobar's cartel in the wilds of New Brunswick, has been longlisted for the Edna Staebler Personal Essay Contest. Neat!

ALOCASIA has nominated my personal essay The Ghosts of Forests Past for the Best of the Net awards. I didn't make it to the final rounds, but it was nice to be nominated.

My story Sibyl Has a Heart of Gold has been nominated by The Temz Review for the Journey Prize for dark fiction.


Time to add some other fun stuff to this blog of mine, like what I'm reading and finding interesting.

I'm currently taking a course at Writing the Other with Henry Lien, author of Spring, Summer, Asteroid, Bird. It's a really interesting book on Eastern storytelling. I'm enjoying the readings for the course.

I just finished reading an essay for it called Shakespeare in the Bush wherein the author learns the true meaning of Hamlet from the Tiv of West Africa.

Unrelated to the course, but super-related to writing, here's the most useful craft essay I've ever read. It deals with the shape of story openings: The Wrong Shape for Your Opening by Vera Kurian.

Comments

Hi there

[samijoe_13]

We do not know each other, I'm new here and found this post under the latest things poetry tab. Anyway sorry to hear that you didn't win but with your advice I did read Y.M. Pang's poem and you were right it was wonderful. I do hope you get some good news with your other writings soon. Good luck!

Re: Hi there

[shanmonster]

Thank you! Glad to have shared her work with you.