This is a favourite. To get you started, here are some ideas: The steps and ingredients to make an atomic bomb. The acqua alta phenomenon. Seismic sea waves. The splitting of light. Moon bows. Mirages. Summer Writing Prompts is...
Questions curated by Kyla Jamieson Photo credit Ming Kai Leung Doretta Lau is the author of the short story collection How Does a Single Blade of Grass Thank the Sun? (Nightwood Editions, 2014). The book was shortlisted for the City of...
We’re so excited to introduce you to our Jacob Zilber prize winners, whose pieces you can read in our Summer issue, 56.4. The characters in these stories transport a dead body along a bourbon-hued river in the Philippines, hunt for the perfect pig-feet in Seoul and come to understand their pasts in the woven strands of carpets. Let’s get to know the minds behind these complex worlds.
Continue reading Get to Know: Our Jacob Zilber Prize Winners
Return to as needed. From my journal: Memphis Pistil/pistol Velvet Cross-stitching (and all the steps involved in the process) “Real love is a heart attack.” – Big Thief Raspberry farms Chests that smell like Coppertone Summer Writing Prompts is...
Read a sneak peak of Ben Ladouceur’s short story below and pick up your copy of our Summer issue, 56.4, for the rest!
Continue reading Story Behind the Story – “A Boy of Good Breeding”
Repeat as needed. Summer Writing Prompts is a writing initiative by Claudia Wilde, a BFA student in the Creative Writing Program at UBC and creator of the feminist literary space, Daughters of Didion. Follow the walking volcano on Instagram: @clawdeeeeah.
Think spatially, sensually, texturally, and in colour. You may not include the titles of physical places. (This includes countries, cities, buildings, environments, etc.) Write, write, write! Summer Writing Prompts is a writing initiative by Claudia Wilde, a BFA student in...
Fates and Furies
Lauren Groff
Riverhead Books
Review by Claudia Wilde
Lauren Groff’s novel, Fates and Furies, is the first novel I was compelled to finish based almost solely off my fondness for the language. Never mind the story. (Which, by the way, is brilliant in its own right. I will get to this shortly.) Groff’s prose reads like poetry and the diction is precise, sticking to the tongue when spoken aloud: Continue reading Magnified and Shrunk: A Review of Lauren Groff’s Fates and Furies
Variations: – Write it in the form of a business email. Stick to a professional, clinical tone. Hash out the pros and cons of the relationship. Sign off appropriately. – Write a poem. Set it as your Tinder bio....