• FEBRUARY 23, 2011 – AN EVENING OF POETRY, PROSE & MUSIC Visual Arts Centre School of Art / McClure Gallerywww.visualartscentre.ca350 Victoria Avenue, Montreal, QCProducer/host Ilona Martonfi Wednesday, February 23, 2011Doors 7:00 pm Reading 7:30 pm At the door $5MORE INFORMATION HERE. Read Gillian…

  • – Priyadarshi Patnaik’s poem “Voices – House at Puri” [pdf] and O Thiam Chin’s short fiction “The Cleaner’s Daughter” [pdf] are now published in the December 2010 issue of Asiatic.  Priyadarshi Patnaik’s photograph “Flight of the Toads” is the cover image of…

  • Bob Bradshaw has a new poem, “Building A Plane”, in the new issue of Eclectica Magazine. “Clouds like surf stretched towards Japan. // I started work on the plane’s belly, / and lived inside it for months.” — read the rest of…

  • On Saturday, we went to Highgate Cemetery where we took a guided tour of the West side. Highgate Cemetery is divided into two sections: the West and East sides. Most visitors go to the East side to see the graves…

  • Laura Roberts of Black Heart Magazine interviews pax americana poetry editor Greg Santos. Read the article here. – Greg Santos’s poetry was published in issue #10 of Cha. –

  • There is an article on Xu Xi titled “Wonder Women”  in The Straits Times and it can be read on Haven Books website here [PDF]. – Xu Xi’s creative non-fiction was published in issue #6 of Cha. –

  • – Rumjhum Biswas’s “Cleavage” and W.F. Lantry’s “Talavera” were named finalists of Aesthetica Magazine‘s Creative Works Competition 2010. The magazine is currently accepting submissions for its 2011 competition. Check out the information here. – Rumjhum Biswas’s poem “Bones” was published in issue…

  • – Royston Tester’s short story “Dotty”, set in England and Canada, is now published in “The Unruly Issue” of Canada’s Grain Magazine. – Read Royston Tester’s Cha profile. –

  • Image by Mark Bulwinkle Jee Leong Koh’s poem “Let This Year” is now published in the twelve issue of The Flea. Read it here. – Jee Leong Koh’s poetry was published in issue #6 of Cha. –

  • Department of English, City University of Hong Kong WHY DO YOU NEED A CREATIVE WRITING MFA? You can’t learn writing in school, right? If you have a good story you just write it, right? Well maybe, but if so, why are…