I wrote this collection of poetry on my smartphone. It fed my judgmental, five second attention span for almost a year. Now as I look back, the body of work is very much a product of its environment. The poems were inspired by run of the mill, everyday situations in which I sampled my over… Read more »
blare coughlin is six feet tall and lives in montreal. they go to school, eat, sleep, and write poetry sometimes. they have written a lot of ebooks and have been given the honour of being named beach sloth’s pick for the most promising new writer in alt lit. blare coughlin is not sure what alt… Read more »
Craig Dodman (b. 05/05/89) is a writer, an editor, and curator of the Grey Borders Reading series, living out of Niagara Falls. A graduate of Brock University, he has had creative work released in Steel Bananas, and dead (g)end(er). His leaflet Trinitite was published through Irregular Artifact Press, and his manuscript Proteus Looks into the… Read more »
Victoria Braun is a Calgary-based emerging artist and writer. Braun’s work is concerned with gender performance and how gender identity is constructed and portrayed, especially online. Social media is used to both construct gender and affect how gender is viewed. Braun’s work uses social media as a catalogue of our time that is indicative of… Read more »
The book contains three line poems have been generated from Twitter using tweets that have #girlproblems in them. I used Processing 2.0 to randomly select three tweets from the most recent 100 tweets and display them in the processing window every twelve seconds. I catalogued each display and chose the most interesting selections for this… Read more »
Graeme Dearden is a Calgarian fine artist and writer working primarily in printmaking, cold glass sculpting, drawing, and visual poetry. Generally his work is concerned with the creative process itself and how people, including himself, go about making artwork. His work often becomes the result of observing conversations that occur between people and their processes… Read more »
Graeme Dearden’s book, Shop Talk, is collected scraps of information all in response to the colloquial pictographic writing used as a shorthand amongst glassblowers. : : Also included for download is the Shop Talk font. The author asks that if you would like to put anything you’ve made with it out publicly that I be… Read more »
My name is Stephanie Pauline Orr and I attend art school at the Alberta College of Art and Design. My passions include poetry, dancing, painting and community building. My art practice comes at the intersection of all of these forms.
Let Me Introduce Myself is a book of poetry made of words using only the letter from my full name.
Nicole Raziya Fong is a poet from Western Canada, with roots in the Caribbean island-nation of Trinidad and the country of Suriname. Her writing has appeared in Carousel Magazine, Poetry is Dead, ditch, and Cordite.