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Corinne Wasilewski: Interviewing an interviewer about interviews

Corinne Wasilewski is the author of Live from the Underground (Mansfield Press, 2015). Her short stories have appeared in Front & Centre, The Windsor Review, The Nashwaak Review, The Battered Suitcase and most recently the anthology Polish(ed): Poland Rooted in Canadian Fiction. Her interview with Alden Nowlan is in the [...]

By |2021-02-13T17:43:59-08:00February 27th, 2018|Media Whore Blog|0 Comments

Short bursts and tight groupings with Brent van Staalduinen

Credit: Sharon Porty Brent van Staalduinen is the author of the novel SAINTS, UNEXPECTED (Invisible Publishing). His short stories have won The Bristol Short Story Prize, the Lush Triumphant Literary Award, the Fiddlehead Best Short Story Award, and have appeared in Riddle Fence, The New Quarterly, EVENT, Prairie [...]

By |2021-02-13T17:44:48-08:00January 30th, 2018|Media Whore Blog|4 Comments

Beautiful lies

If you feel shut out and shut down because the oppressive and ever-present patriarchy that rules every editor's desk leads to the rejection of your gender and the subject matter of your stories, there's hope. If you feel that an ultra-progressive, politically correct agenda has seeped into every classroom, every [...]

By |2021-02-13T17:51:16-08:00October 2nd, 2017|Media Whore Blog|2 Comments

You’re so vain, you probably thought this award was about you

Recently I submitted an application to the National Magazine Awards at a cost of $107.35, even though that's not the way it works. Usually the journal that originally published your work thinks you're so great that they do the application for you, betting that your story will be selected from [...]

By |2021-02-13T17:58:53-08:00June 15th, 2017|Media Whore Blog|3 Comments
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