The trouble with modern writers
is not that they are too political - they are
not political enough
In a Paris courtroom, art has gone on trial.
Novelist Michel Houellebecq, who stands accused
by Muslim groups of inciting racial hatred, is
defending his right to call Islam a 'stupid'
religion. The rowdy hearing has so far been
disrupted by invasions of free-speech protesters
and far-Right activists. The intellectual and
political classes are divided. It is all very
French.
c/o Asociación Mexicana de Estudios sobre Canadá, A.C.
"This is a story about
storytelling. It is my way of telling the truth about a
story that may be interlaced with lies but they are lies
only in the way true lovers give each other the lie when
they say: “I’ll love you till the day I die.”
"But I am belittling the
fundamentalists who insist that a story must be literally true in its
factual details if its great truth is to be trusted.
Aristotle had their number.
Chronological detail, he said, is a low level of awareness. A telephone
book has chronology.
But the imagination gives shape to the experience that is inherent in
the form of the story."
The Canadian Authors
Association is Canada's national writing association. If you are looking for
the type of support only a large national association can give you combined
with the friendliness of
local branches then the CAA is for you. "Writers Helping Writers" is
more than a motto -- it expresses our commitment to beginning and
established writers alike.
The Community Arts Network (CAN) project promotes information exchange,
research and critical dialogue within the field of community-based arts,
that is, art made as a voice and a force within a specific community of
place, spirit or tradition. The CAN project is designed and managed by a
partnership of Art in the Public Interest, a national nonprofit
organization, and The Virginia Tech Department of Theatre Arts' Consortium
for the Study of Theatre and Community.
AuthorLink.com:
The award-winning marketplace for the
publishing industry, where editors and agents buy and sell unpublished
and published manuscripts and screenplays. Providing serious
writers with access and exposure to the broadest range of legitimate
publishing professionals. Plus industry news, information, and marketing
services. Also visit our new BOOK REVIEW section.
Places for Writers
covers
international competitions, inspiration and book resources, websites for
writers, locations of retreats, and resources for funding. In the future,
look for some articles and features.
trAce
connects writers and readers around the world in real and virtual space.
We promote an accessible and inclusive approach to the internet with the
focus on creativity, collaboration and training. This is where writers
meet to experiment, create new work, and expand the potential of the
global literary community. Membership is free.
Welcome
to writers.ca, the simple-to-use reference database of Canadian
freelance writers. Writers.ca contains over 500 professional writers,
all members of the Periodical Writer's Association of Canada.
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OXFORD: Oxford Dictionaries Passionate about Language
Celebrating
rare and beautiful words, famous quotes and crosswords
On
Style & Grammar
this
is subject is arguement especially in this global village of variations
on 'English' (or variations of Latin or Ancient Greek) and the
freedom to express those differences. I've tried to get a
well-rounded link list.
1)Cheapest way to insure your work is to mail it to yourself via registered
mail. This means your website pages; videos of your choreography;
CDs of your music; manuscripts, etc.
"... Hot Type
will continue to understand the world around us through books, all
filtered through the active mind, engaging manner and probing style of
our host, Evan Solomon. “In a world that is getting ever more
complex and faster moving, our show offers the much needed
perspective, ideas and context,” says Evan Solomon. “We speak with
the smartest, most thoughtful people in the world who bring us ways of
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January
Magazine
is
one of the most popular and respected book-related sites on the Web. This
surprises me, simply because it's not what we set out to do. Back in 1997
(in November, actually: not the beginning of the year as one might expect)
when January was launched, we simply wanted to take a lot of print
magazine experience and translate that elegantly to the Internet.
Daniel Richler Editor-in-Chief/Supervising Producer
BookTelevision: The Channel Host The Word Daniel Richler comes full-circle with BookTelevision: the channel, having begun his TV career with the CHUM group in 1983 on The New Music - first as co-host with Jeanne Beker and J.D. Roberts, and then as producer of the show.
Daniel has played many characters in the drama of television's development; he was host and creator of Canada's first enduring book television show, Imprint, in 1981. He executive-produced the original comix and Sci-Fi freak-out, Prisoners of Gravity, and the only true underground newsmagazine on mainstream television, Big Life. Daniel was Chief Arts Correspondent for CBC's The Journal and Creative Head of Arts for TVOntario, where he executive-produced Saturday Night at the Movies' Elwy Yost.
Daniel's been nominated for various Geminis, winning Best Host and Best Lifestyle Programming awards. His career has also covered radio (including CHOM-FM in Montreal, CFNY in Toronto, and Morningside on CBC), and he's a National Magazine Award winner for his print journalism. His novel, Kicking Tomorrow, was published internationally, was a bestseller in Canada and named one of New York Times Book Review's best books of 1992.
He has a fondness for snooker and Gothic horror, and was once interviewed by The National Enquirer on the subject of ghosts.
Brascoe
Publishing. We are a small indie press located in the Adelaide
Hills. We are young (under 30), excited (and excitable!) folk who are
passionate about providing great service. We are most passionate about
literature and developing writers, and about furthering editing and
independent publishing in Australia.
Seven Stories Press is an independent book publisher based in New York
City, with distribution throughout the United States, Canada, England,
Australia, and New Zealand. We publish works of the imagination by such
writers as Nelson Algren, Kate Braverman, Octavia Butler, Harriet Scott
Chessman, Assia Djebar, Ariel Dorfman, Martin Duberman, Alan Dugan,
Annie Ernaux, Barry Gifford, Stanley Moss, Peter Plate,Charley Rosen,
Ted Solotaroff, Lee Stringer, Martin Winckler and Kurt Vonnegut, among
many others, together with political titles by voices of conscience,
including Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Tom Athanasiou, the Boston Women's
Health Book Collective, The Center for Constitutional Rights, Fairness &
Accuracy in Reporting, Noam Chomsky, Angela Davis, Shere Hite,Robert
McChesney, Phil Jackson, Ralph Nader, Gary Null, Benjamin Pogrund,
Project Censored, Luis J. Rodriguez, Barbara Seaman, Vandana Shiva,
Leora Tanenbaum, Koigi wa Wamwere, Gary Webb and Howard Zinn. Our books
appear in hardcover and paperback, as Open Media books and pamphlets,
and in e-book formats,in English and, under our Siete Cuentos imprint,
in Spanish. Through sublicenses with our colleagues overseas, Seven
Stories books are translated into and published in virtually all
languages around the globe. We believe publishers have a special
responsibility to defend free speech and human rights wherever we can.
Rubicon Press
had its start in Norwich, England, when two friends
decided to create an independent press to publish a
collection of poetry featuring writers from around the
world. All the writers whose work was included in this
first collection were participants in the MA program in
Creative Writing: Poetry at the University of East
Anglia. A year later and an ocean away, Rubicon is
comfortably ensconced in its new home in Edmonton,
Alberta, and ready to roll once again.
Rubicon Press publishes chapbooks and broadsides of
extraordinary poetry from authors in Canada and around the world. We’re
looking for work that resonates; poetry that is more than just
excellence of technique and use of multiple forms. We seek poetry that
moves, inspires and affects.
UBC Press is the publishing branch of the University of British Columbia. It was established in 1971 and is among the largest university presses in Canada. We publish more than forty new books annually and have a backlist of 500
titles. UBC Press is widely acknowledged as one of the foremost publishers of political science, Native studies, and forestry books.
Other areas of particular strength are Asian studies, Canadian history, environmental studies, planning, and urban studies. The Press publishes several series: Legal Dimensions, Law and Society, Canada and International Relations, Studies in Canadian Military History, Sexuality Studies, Sustainability and the Environment, Urbanization in Asia, First Nations Languages, Contemporary Chinese Studies, Pioneers of British Columbia, Pacific Rim Archaeology, and the Brenda and David McLean Canadian Studies series.
