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Guy Elston's Book Available for Preorder
Guy Elston's debut full-length collection of poetry, The Character Actor Convention, forthcoming in fall 2025, is now available for preorder – https://theporcupinesquill.com/products/the-character-actor-convention.
A pumpkin writes a letter to his father. A sheep recalls a revolution, and love. Hydrogen pens a tell all exposé of Oxygen. The Stick Insect Orders His Tomb. Napoleon counts waves and cheats at cards. A sunflower seeks answers – why sun? A crow considers children in this cruel, spiky world. And all the while, character actors gather for the endless convention...
Guy Elston’s debut is a curious smorgasbord of personas, voices and (un)natural perspectives. Through impossible encounters and strange viewpoints an insistent, ever-shifting ‘I’ questions its relation to itself. Wist, wit, and obsession rise like tides, are forgotten, and start fresh. Authenticity is always just round the corner.
The Character Actor Convention is not urgent, timely or topical. It’s something else.
Adam Lindsay Honsinger Book Launch
Adam Lindsay Honsinger launches his new novel, Giving Up the Ghost, on Saturday March 1, 7:00 PM, at the ANAF (32 Gordon St, Guelph), with readings by Kasia Jaronczyk, Tea Gerbeza, Hollay Ghadery, and MA|DE.
Speech Dries Here on the Tongue in Quill & Quire
Speech Dries Here on the Tongue, a collection of poetry on mental health and climate change edited by Hollay Ghadery, Rasiqra Revolva, & Amanda Shankland, forthcoming this spring, has been featured in Quill & Quire.
Kevin Andrew Heslop's Forthcoming Book Available for Preorder
Kevin Andrew Heslop's The Writing on the Wind’s Wall, a collection of interviews on "Medical Assistance in Death" forthcoming in Fall 2025, is now available for preorder.
Death to America Now Officially Available
Ayaz Pirani's new collection of short stories, Death to America, is now officially available.