Malla keeps on keepin’ on

Snare congratulates  Pasha Malla (All our grandfathers are ghosts, 2008) on two recent awards wins: the Trillium Book Award and the Danuta Gleed Literary Award for the incomparable short story collection The Withdrawal Method (House of Anansi, 2008).  Next stop for Malla?  A Berton House Residency, and apparently new headphones.

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Pasha Malla finalist for Trillium Award

Pasha Malla (All our grandfathers are ghosts, 2008) has been nominated for a Trillium Award for his collection of short stories, The Withdrawal Method (House of Anansi, 2008).  See the other finalists here.

The Olive and the Dawn is coming

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Ian Orti’s debut collection explores, with tenderness and hilarity, the grey zones of life:  the psychological non-space people find themselves once the reference points that shaped their existence suddenly become stripped away.  Watch the trailer for The Olive and the Dawn.

Pasha Malla featured in The National Post’s Afterword as part of NaPoMo

Pasha Malla, author of 2008’s All our grandfathers are ghosts, was recently featured in The National Post’s Afterword, answering their poet questionnaire  as part of National Poetry Month.  Malla cited the need to include “real poets” (the man is incredibly humble) and was kind enough to include fellow Snare authors Zoe Whittall and Mike Spry, as well as Snare Editor-in-Chief Jon Paul Fiorentino among others.  Check it out here.

Snare authors Natalie Zina Walschots and Mike Spry 30 in 30

Also as a part of National Poetry Month, Seen Reading’s Julie Wilson put together the amazing 30 in 30 project.  Writers were asked to record a poem of their own and a cover poem to be archived on the site.  Snare’s Natalie Zina Walschots (Thumbscrews 2007) and Mike Spry (JACK 2008) both contributed.  Listen to all of the great readings here.

The Utne Reader thinks Snare writers are funny.  In a good way…

The Utne Reader recently reviewed Pasha Malla’s All our grandfathers are ghosts and Mike Spry’s JACK.  They dug the books, and Snare itself.  Read the full review here.