#canlit
They named the trees without asking the trees their names.
The shame of my people is without beginning, without end.
“An artistic practice, among other things, is rooted in the belief that practice is useful.”
— Tanis MacDonald, Out of Line: Daring to be an Artist Outside the Big City
You know, we have some really exciting books coming down the pipes this season. This is just a taste. Check out these incredible covers!
Adult Titles (Fiction & Non-Fiction)
Children’s Titles (Picture Books + MG Fiction)
Thrilled to announce that I have joined the editorial team at Metonymy Press as an acquisitions editor. Metonymy Press has been such a supportive home for my work & I look forward to paying this forward by supporting other emerging artists refine their craft & publish their work.
I will be mostly focussing on acquiring French to English translation rights, but if you have a manuscript lying around (fiction, non-fiction, poetry, hybrid forms) check out submission guidelines on Metonymy’s website & send us your work at [email protected]
#Repost @metonymypress
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We are over-the-moon excited to share this news with you. All metonymy acquisitions will now be made collectively by our newly formed acquisitions committee : @notesofacrocodile @theonlyelitareq and @kamalamackerel alongside co-pubs @smashmtl & @oliverpickle. Send us your queries to submissions [at] metonymypress [dot] com.
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#canlit #literature #poetry #poem #poet #fiction #nonfiction #novel #novelas #shortstory #shortstories #lit #lgbt #lgbtq #queer #trans #transgender
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ten years ago, i graduated from this MA program (then called Theory, Culture and Politics). i was broke, in debt, traumatized (but didn’t have access to such language to name this at the time), thoroughly disillusioned with north-american academia.
and here we are, exactly 10 years since i defended my thesis, as a grassroots self- and community-taught educator, artist, facilitator, writer, going back to my alumni as a guest speaker.
if you want to join, i have put a link in the bio.
“Since graduating from the Theory, Culture and Politics MA program at Trent University in 2011, Kama La Mackerel has gone on to establish themselves as a leading multidisciplinary artist and writer in Canada. In this talk, they look over their body of artistic work of the past decade, which spans from performance, poetry, photography, the moving image to digital art and literary translation, to offer a theoretical framework in which they ground their aesthetics and politics.
At once a performance lecture and a studio visit, this talk will delve into the following questions: Is a decolonial enunciation possible at all in a racialized body that bears the weight of colonial history? What are the strategies of selfhood that a trans artist can deploy to catalyze new signs of identity and innovative sites of collaboration and contestation? How can hybrid spaces and interstices provide an anticolonial framework to disrupt fixed identifications as they relate to space, time, history, language, kinship and the body?”
#poetry #poet #artist #artistic #artistsoninstagram #artists #canlit #literature #qtbipoc #bipoc #gay #queer #trans #transgender #femme #oneofthem #montreal #montrealart #mtl #queerart #montrealartist #mauritius #zomfam #lamackerel #kamalamackerel #peterborough #trent #culturalstudies (at Trent University)
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i know this is a weird thing to say, given that we are still living through a pandemic, but really, it does feel like in spite of it all, in the past year, all my dreams came true ✨
& this feature on @cbcarts is an absolute, absolute dream come true! my lil’immigrant heart is full! ❤️
big love to @metonymypress & @mtlartsinter for having made a home for my art
LINK IN BIO if you wanna read the full piece!
#poetry #poet #artist #artistic #artistsoninstagram #artists #canlit #literature #qtbipoc #bipoc #gay #queer #trans #transgender #femme #oneofthem #montreal #montrealart #mtl #queerart #montrealartist #mauritius #zomfam #lamackerel #kamalamackerel
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i know this is a weird thing to say, given that we are still living through a pandemic, but really, it does feel like in spite of it all, in the past year, all my dreams came true ✨
& this feature on @cbcarts is an absolute, absolute dream come true! my lil’immigrant heart is full! ❤️
big love to @metonymypress & @mtlartsinter for having made a home for my art
LINK IN BIO if you wanna read the full piece!
#poetry #poet #artist #artistic #artistsoninstagram #artists #canlit #literature #qtbipoc #bipoc #gay #queer #trans #transgender #femme #oneofthem #montreal #montrealart #mtl #queerart #montrealartist #mauritius #zomfam #lamackerel #kamalamackerel
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If in a thousand years this
sadness that I am carrying around
with me inside will be burned up;
will fall down and spit like dust to
unknown planets, in particles of
dirt and stone, I can
live with that.
I can let it go. Everything I
have not and
will not do.
I have- my darling-
only sped you on your way,
There is nothing here to
look forward to, or understand.
It is, for you, as though
everything had already
happened, now. As though
you were a planet. The last
remote and quivering matter of a
burned down love.
As though everything
from that long distance,
had already
fallen and fallen;
the stars put out. Already
clanging around in your
head like
spoons in a jar.
- Johanna Skibsrud, from I Do Not Think That I Could Love A Human Being (Gaspereau Press, 2010)
