“The Family of Literature” was told by Joel Yanofsky at our storytelling evening, This Really Happened, at Café Sarajevo on December 6, 2011. [Read more...]

“Bring the Doll to Life” was told by Taylor Tower at This Really Happened at Café Sarajevo on December 6, 2011. [Read more...]

We asked our contributors from the past year for their reading picks from 2011. Here is what they had to share.
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carte blanche and This Really Happened bring you an evening of nonfiction storytelling on the theme of OBSESSIONS. December 6th at Café Sarajevo, 6548 boul. St. Laurent
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Congratulations to Gillian Sze! [Read more...]

The word obsessions often comes with negative connotations. It’s not healthy to have obsessions (think OCD, hoarders, or stalkers). But where would we be without them? [Read more...]

carte blanche is a not-for-profit project published by the Quebec Writers’ Federation. As an online literary publication, we rely on funding from the Canada Council for the Arts and the support of individual sponsors. [Read more...]

This is important in part because it means the benefit to the individual artist and her family will outweigh the relative cost to general tax revenue. It also means that all of her money goes right back into businesses in the local community, since she clearly isn’t making enough money to save or travel. Also, with the security the exemption provides, a highly-skilled artist can devote more of her time to her high-value work, doing more good to the Canadian economy than she would wasting her time at a low-skilled job in order to make ends meet. [Read more...]

But film hasn’t given up. Instead, in peculiar ways, film has worked its way back into the network of billions of images that we share on a daily basis. And what is more curious is this: a large number of digital photographers have rejected the hyper-real pretensions of the early medium in favour of filters and effects that mimic the aberrations and limits of film photography. [Read more...]

Twitter is also a fiction publishing phenomenon. While not as popular as keitai shosetsu (literally, cellphone novel) in Japan, it is increasingly being taken on by serious writers, serious wannabe writers, and seriously get-on-the-bandwagon publishers. [Read more...]