Author Archives: Pearl

Aug 10th was the annual authors’ market at the Wakefield Farmer’s Market. A few people asked, as usual, wow, is this every week? Sadly know, but gladly no, because sometimes it’s a feature of glassworks, or woodworking, ceramics, or community services, such as death duelas, or forest replanting, or kids crafts. It was perfectly sunny […]

The local universe was smiling, heralding the event with a rainbow pointed at the Red Bird. Often a concert venue, the space was well-shaped for a reading, which isn’t as common as one might think for poetry readings. Apparently there were a/g t-shirts on offer but my paper-magnet brain saw only chapbooks. rob opened the night […]

Saturday the 10th is forecast to be a miserable soaking mess of a day for an author’s market at Wakefield so it may be pushed back to the 17th from 9am to 1pm. Watch this space for confirmation. Authors at market include fiction, non-fiction, kid’s lit and poetry: Brian Doyle, Catherine Joyce, Gatineau Valley Historical […]

If you want an array of chapbooks mailed to your house, and why would you not, the above/ground press thirty-first anniversary sale ends in a couple weeks! $35 (plus shipping) for any eight 2023/2024 titles! Or, if you are feeling particularly brave, $40 for any ten 2023/2024 titles! (until August 31, 2024)! braver still? $80 […]

6 poetry submissions sent out in a month, and got an acceptance at bywords.ca Poetry is like stealth level cultural change. Haiku calls. To dog your steps is to follow. It follows that “to cat your steps” is to trip. Forget stone. The mosquito keeps trying to get blood out of a phone. Minute 1: […]