Lisa Moore Longlisted for the Booker
July 28th, 2010 § Leave a Comment
The title of this post pretty much says it all. If you travel the twitterail and care anything for writing you’ve no doubt heard the news. It’s great to see a Canadian listed, especially a Newfoundlander. If you follow this link you’ll find a cbc.ca article about Moore’s preliminary success complete with other members of the longlist. Congrats to Moore and good luck.
Lorca, IMPAC Longlist, Comics
November 2nd, 2009 § Leave a Comment
I think I’ll start sharing a couple interesting news items from around the web related to poetry and, to a lesser extent, writing in general. Cheers.
- Federico Garcia Lorca was buried in a mass grave in 1936 as merely one result of the Spanish Civil War. Seems the family has agreed to allow excavations of his presumed burial site. Can you say “Zombie Lorca”?
- The IMPAC longlist is now available. Some Canadian talent in here. I draw your attention to Patrick Lane here.
- xkcd is a brilliant web comic that posts a couple times a week on both random and currently significant topics. Here’s one for fans of LOTR, Star Wars, and a couple other big name movies.
