Walking Through Turquoise Laurie MacFayden’s third book of poetry continues to explore the secrets and flirtations mined in her previous titles, White Shirt and Kissing Keeps Us Afloat. The clumsy intricacies of relationships; things you want to shout from rooftops but can’t; that tickle in your gut the first time she calls you honey. MacFayden ponders a one-way […]
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Beware the Drumpercrock
Apologies to Lewis Carroll ’Twas votecrack, and the Cheese’d of Skin Did Grump and Twitter in the night: All Klimsy’d were his alt-right views, And Nasty Women gave him fright. “Beware the Drumpercrock, my girl! The clod that bite, the maw that’s jabber! Beware the Orangefaced Turd, and shun The furious Pussygrabb’r!” Took […]
Quartet 2017 launches at the Almanac
Ordinary who would ever believe looking into your ordinary eyes could stop me from breathing; that touching your scars could transport me to the stars who would ever believe two ordinary sets of hands could cartwheel to the moon and back, and again, and back then sleep in an ordinary bed in an […]
Real straight talk about souls
Beginning July 9, a collection of my paintings, Real Straight Talk About Souls, will be on display at the Woodcroft branch of Edmonton Public Library. The exhibit is part of a larger, ongoing body of work in which the titles of the paintings are borrowed from beat poet Jack Kerouac’s writings — mostly from Dharma […]
2017 Alberta Literary Awards winners
R. Ross Annett Award for Children’s Literature Georgia Graham (Lacombe) – Cub’s Journey Home, Red Deer Press Howard O’Hagan Award for Short Story Laurie MacFayden (Edmonton) – “Haircut,” Alberta Views Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction Gisèle Villeneuve (Calgary) – Rising Abruptly, University of Alberta Press Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction Sydney Sharpe and Don Braid (Calgary) – Notley Nation: […]
Alberta Literary Awards shortlist
I’m honoured to be among the writers on this year’s Alberta Literary Awards shortlist. My short story Haircut (published in Alberta Views) is a finalist for the Howard O’Hagan Award. Winners will be announced at the Alberta Literary Awards Gala on June 10 in the Lister Centre at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. The Writers Guild of Alberta […]
Dear Younger Me: Relax, you’ll turn out OK
What would you say to your younger self? Dear Younger Me … A letter to myself Sunday, Nov. 6, 2-3:30 p.m. Latitude 53, 10242 106 St, Edmonton Six area writers have been invited to pen letters to their younger selves, whether as children or as young adults, and share these aloud with the audience, followed by a Q […]
things that open my heart
your morning beauty your eyes in civil twilight the small of your back your sweet sweet kindnesses the love in your eyes seen through my eyes your quiet magic votre chapeau blanc votre chemise bleue your willingness your hopeful your aching rocking rhythm that flicker that grin that curling in you do when we entwine your mysterious […]