Trip to Pliocene Epoch
Students often ask how and when I got my mammoth photo. Answer: 4.8 million years ago, and: check to the right of my shoulder in this pic. photo credit Bradford Werner
Erin Fisher
New Publication: “Suite in Dark Matter”
You can read my latest publication online in Granta: Suite in Dark Matter
Forthcoming Publication: Granta
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……
Reading–Micheal Ondaatje
Attended Micheal Ondaatje’s reading of “The Cat’s Table” last night at the AGPH. Mr Ondaatje read for 40 minutes then answered questions. It turns out that the Cat’s Table is a German phrase for the least important table with the…
Vancouver’s Main Street Mag
Thursday August 18th 6pm-10pm Vancouver is showing off its Literary Journals. I’d really like to go to this year’s Main Street Mag, but am busy this week introducing 7-12 year-olds to music through group piano classes at the Victoria Conservatory…
Tim Winton–Breath
I’ve been a fan Tim Winton since I read The Turning, his collection of short fiction. His latest novel, Breath, is one of the best books I’ve read in a long time. Not only is the story itself exhilarating, the…
Michael Larson – The Woods in Malahat Review
So, the Malahat Review’s Spring Edition 174 came out a while back and Michael Larson’s short story “The Woods” caught my attention. I haven’t read anything by him before, but his story has been knocking around my brain from the…
Shortlisted for Malahat Review’s Far Horizons Award: Erin Frances Fisher
Glad to get this news this morning! We are pleased to announce the twelve finalists for this year’s Far Horizons award: Erin Fisher, “Suite in Dark Matter” Tanya M. Gadsby, “Skinned Seal” Elaine Hayes, “Rearranging Rainbows”‘ Michael Kissinger, “The Daytime…
Erin’s Students: Year End Recital
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…
John K Samson Comments on “Bridges”
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…