Flowers, Throw up
I had my first studio throw-up last week with a student. As a long-time bad-with-motion traveller, I’m pretty impervious to vomit; none got on the piano so it really wasn’t a problem. This week the student was excited to bring…
I had my first studio throw-up last week with a student. As a long-time bad-with-motion traveller, I’m pretty impervious to vomit; none got on the piano so it really wasn’t a problem. This week the student was excited to bring…
Being done classes has meant that I have a little more time again, and though I’m looking forward to returning to work on a MFA in the fall, it’s been nice to have the morning free before slogging it out…
I recently read “The Flame Alphabet” by Ben Marcus. The book looks great, the title is good, and the premise (the language of children has become toxic) got me on a bus in search of it. Additionally, it has Big…
A couple days ago Will Johnson emailed and asked if he/PRISM could interview me about my Malahat win and a few of my stories. Will is a UBA Writing MFA student, and went through UVic the same time as me,…
Excited to announce that my short story “Apiculture” won the fiction category of the Malahat Review’s 2012 Open Season Awards, and will be published in the Spring 2012 issue of the magazine. I wrote this piece in a UVic writing…
A great way to start the new year: Cuba (thanks prism international for the funds!) and a publication in Granta, and finishing off a BFA at UVic! Studio Recitals 3:30 on Sunday January 15th and 29th in Wood Hall, VCM.
Story “Suite in Dark Matter” to be published by Granta online, possibly even this week. Their latest issue is the Horror issue, and from what one of the editors said I wonder if that’s what gave my story an edge……
Monday May 30th, 7:00-8:00, Wood Hall in the Victoria Conservatory of Music. 30 awesome performers from the age of 3.5 through 17 have been working hard all year and get to show it. I’m excited, students, as I’m sure you…
Prism sent a few of John K Samson’s comments to John Threlfall and he passed them on to me: Judge John K. Samson felt Fisher’s story was “crafted as tightly as an enduring poem, and is full of fuse-like sentences…
PRISM says: This year we received over two-hundred and fifty short stories and over three-hundred and fifty poems! Needless to say, the decisions were difficult and the quality of the work was phenomenal. But after weeks and weeks of deliberation,…