It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

—Albert Camus

'The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.' — Tom Waits

Things that this year’s Canada Reads will leave me thinking about for awhile: what readers expect from endings, (Hollywood?) influenced myths about editing & the role of the editor, and how short story collections will always be underdogs if we use novel criteria to judge them.

The Capilano Review seeks a Managing Editor beginning April 1, 2024.

Application Deadline: Sunday, March 10, 2024.

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'We are less because of ideologies of universalism, not more'.

We can now officially name Jagmeet Singh the father of pharmacare in Canada.

Books for Black History Month: Toward an Anti-Racist Poetics The Quad ualberta.ca/the-quad/2024/…

New by Wayde Compton: Toward an Anti-Racist Poetics. Based on his 2023 CLC UAlberta Kreisel Lecture. Congratulations on a wonderful and enriching book! Cover art by Denyse Thomasos.

7 books the Vancouver Black Library says you should read this month vancouverisawesome.com/local-news/boo… via @viawesome

Job Opportunity via the Hogan's Alley Society:

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Excerpt of the forthcoming CLC UAlberta UAlberta Press Kreisel Lecture Series book by Wayde Compton Toward an Anti-Racist Poetics:
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New in SCL/ÉLC Vol. 47 No. 2: “Three Riots: A Biotext for Watts, Rodney King, and George Floyd” by Wayde Compton. Read it online at journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/SCL/…

'this monster, the body, this miracle, its pain'

— Virginia Woolf, 'On Being Ill'

Submissions are now open for the 2024 RBC #BronwenWallace Award for Emerging Writers! Submit your poetry and short fiction by January 15 for a chance to win a top prize of $10K. For full award details visit writerstrust.com/BronwenWallace