à la carte
- Storytelling event at Blue Metropolis Literary Festival
- NEWS: Announcing our POD and digital version
- The Family of Literature
- Bring the Doll to Life – An Obsessive Childhood
q&a
photography
- Paired Aurora Ira
graphic fiction
- A Sunset Daniel Ha
- Pieces ~ obsessions Ainsley Olsen
nonfiction
- Eating Beets During Menopause ~ obsessions Donna Caruso
- How to Stop a Suicide Cynthia Dockrell
- Always into you, all ways ~ obsessions AC Fraser
- The Perfect Day Kathy Page
~ obsessions Janet SmithI 
Mr. Spock
poetry
- My Constant Companion Michelle Barker
- Constraint on An Uneasy Sea ~ obsessions Julie Mahfood
- Commonplace (2) Rusty Morrison
- Commonplace (3) Rusty Morrison
- Motherhood ~ obsessions Lesley Pasquin
- From Wandering Mortal José-Flore Tappy
Translated by John Taylor - In Defense of the Canon ~ obsessions Priscila Uppal
fiction
- Pastel Fear Raymond Bock
Translated by Pablo Strauss - Bruno ~ obsessions (audio) Cristal Duhaime
- Ticks Clint Walker
- Eight O’clock Jaclyn Watterson
- Jolly Trolley Kathleen Winter
Join Our Mailing List
a la carte
Storytelling event at Blue Metropolis Literary Festival
POSTED ON April 15, 2012 BY Maria Schamis Turner
This Really Happened, carte blanche‘s true storytelling event, will be at the Blue Metropolis Literary Festival. Join us at the Hotel Opus on April 19, 2012, at 8 pm.
[Read more...]
NEWS: Announcing our POD and digital version
POSTED ON March 8, 2012 BY Maria Schamis Turner
We are very happy to announce that a print-on-demand & digital version of carte blanche is now available via MagCloud. You can purchase a copy here. [Read more...]
The Family of Literature
POSTED ON January 28, 2012 BY Maria Schamis Turner
“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 – An Obsessive Childhood
POSTED ON January 20, 2012 BY Maria Schamis Turner
“Bring the Doll to Life” was told by Taylor Tower at This Really Happened at Café Sarajevo on December 6, 2011. [Read more...]
Best of 2011
POSTED ON January 1, 2012 BY Maria Schamis Turner
We asked our contributors from the past year for their reading picks from 2011. Here is what they had to share.
[Read more...]
Montreal Storytelling Event
POSTED ON November 28, 2011 BY Maria Schamis Turner
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
[Read more...]
2011 3Macs carte blanche Prize
POSTED ON November 23, 2011 BY Maria Schamis Turner
Congratulations to Gillian Sze! [Read more...]
On Obsessions – Editor’s Note
POSTED ON November 22, 2011 BY Maria Schamis Turner
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...]
Friends of carte blanche
POSTED ON November 6, 2011 BY Maria Schamis Turner
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...]
shop talk: A Proposal for Artist Funding Reform in Canada
POSTED ON November 2, 2011 BY lepp
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...]