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Send My Love to Anyone | Issue 12

Calls | Events | Films | Essays | Reviews | 2021 Recap

Kathryn Mockler
Jan 16
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Hello friends!

Happy New Year!

Well, it has been exactly one year since I started this newsletter. I published 11 issues in 2021.

Thanks to your enthusiasm this project is going strong.

In January 2021, I committed $50 per month for guest post honorariums and raised the rate as paid subscribers supported this newsletter.

I’m now able to offer guest writers and artists $100 for publication. I hope to continue to increase that rate in 2022!

Thank you so much for your generous support of Send My Love to Anyone.

You can update your subscription here, if you’d like to become a paid subscriber.

Big thanks to everyone who read and shared these posts, interviews, and recommendation round ups and to the authors and artists who have contributed!

This month I’m sharing the 2021 recap, calls for submissions, recommended courses, reading, viewing, and events!

Kathryn


2021 Recap

In year one, I interviewed these fantastic writers:

  • Farzana Doctor

  • Chelene Knight

  • Catherine Graham

  • Hoa Nguyen

  • Concetta Principe

  • Khashayar Mohammadi

  • Michael V. Smith

  • Sydney Warner Brooman

  • Lee Henderson

  • Casey Plett

And these fantastic writers trusted me with their words and art:

  • “How to Meet a Writing Deadline” by Jessica Johnson

  • “It's Queer to Have a Body” by Kirby

  • “Feeling like Schrodinger's Cat: On Writers' Self Love and Hate” by Gary Barwin

  • “What Story?” by Carrianne Leung

  • “Invisible Labour” by June Pak

  • 3 Poems by Jessica Le

  • “The Best Story Ever Submitted to Your Magazine” by Jonathan Ball

  • “Kindergarden: Selected Journals” by Sarah Mangle

  • Excerpt from The Prairie Chicken Dance Tour by Dawn Dumont

  • Excerpt from Bearman Descend Upon Gimli by D.A. Lockhart

  • Excerpt from Permanent Revolution by Gail Scott

And I wrote some stuff too:

  • On a Failed Writing Project

  • On Performance Anxiety

  • I Won't Clean the Tub

  • On Rejection

  • On In-Person Events

  • What Do We Owe the People We Write About

  • On Getting Focused

  • Excerpt from If I Die, Will You Die

  • The Book Graveyard: The Power of Low Expectations


Some Tweets

Twitter avatar for @TheFOLD_The FOLD @TheFOLD_
New month, new year, new #FoldChallenge! This Jan, we’re reading books on climate change by BIPOC &/or disabled authors. Check out these titles from @swbrooman Jenna Butler @themockler & @premeesaurus today! The FOLD Challenge is sponsored by @audible_ca.
thefoldcanada.org/webinars-activ…
Four titles chosen for the FOLD January Challenge: A book about climate change by a BIPOC and/or disabled author. Titles are THE PUMP by Sydney Warner Brooman, REVERY: A YEAR OF BEES by Jenna Butler, WATCH YOUR HEAD by various, and THE ANNUAL MIGRATION OF CLOUDS by PRemee Mohamed. For full list, visit thefoldcanada.org/readingchallenge2022

January 8th 2022

12 Retweets16 Likes

Twitter avatar for @globeandmailThe Globe and Mail @globeandmail
✏ @gabrielledrolet spent most of her life feeling like she was barely getting by. No matter how much effort she put in, she was always falling behind, everything just beyond her control.
tgam.ca/34JYv40
Arrows pointing to boy with labels saying young boy, white, hyperactive.
Text: Many of us have outdated ideas of what someone with ADHD looks like.
Person in front of a laptop with a busy thought bubble. Text: I spent most of my life wondering what was wrong with me. Why my brain was never quiet. Pictured is  Busy thought bubble with many objects including dog, carrot, coffee. Text within bubble asking, What did I sit down to do? What I moved to Montreal, where do turtles go in the winter? That dog I saw today was really cute. Text: Why tasks that were easy to everyone else felt impossible to me.
Four people walking. Text: I didn’t know anyone could have it. that it was a possibility for me.
 Phone with texts author forgot to answer. Empty lecture notes shown. Text: I felt like a bad friend, a bad student. Image showing 
An editor asking if author has started that article yet. Author replying Uh. . Text: I felt like a lazy writer.

January 15th 2022

215 Retweets676 Likes

Twitter avatar for @NBCLXNBCLX @NBCLX
🟩 is the most controversial emoji on the internet right now. Posting five in a row feels GREAT. Seeing a bunch of people post five in a row when you failed the day's #Wordle — not so much.
trib.al/h73uVN8Being Bad at Wordle Doesn’t Mean You’re Dumb. Here’s WhyLinguists and psychologists explain why Wordle, the popular word game online communities are playing en masse, can be so frustrating for some.trib.al

January 14th 2022

16 Retweets62 Likes

Twitter avatar for @roblucastaylorRob Taylor @roblucastaylor
I published twelve author interviews in 2021 (a new personal record!), all with Canadian poets. Check out this thread of the interviews and then buy all the poets' books, ok? Ok!

January 2nd 2022

15 Likes

Twitter avatar for @themocklerKathryn Mockler @themockler
Do you ever write nonfiction but call it fiction but then make up shit too and work on it for so long you don't know what is true and what is made up anymore?

November 25th 2021

2 Retweets56 Likes

Twitter avatar for @itsakirbyKIRBY @itsakirby
"To read Kirby’s POETRY IS QUEER...feels a bit like listening to good jazz, as Kirby riffs on those poets who have influenced her work...The rich texture of the book...you’ll find yourself turning pages wondering what will come next. That element of surprise, of curiosity,
Image

January 2nd 2022

1 Retweet10 Likes

Twitter avatar for @cassmannesCassie Mannes Murray @cassmannes
So, I'm reading brilliant queries this morning. But one thing I wanted to note as I go through: sometimes you don't need an agent. THERE I said it. I would buy so many of these books IMMEDIATELY, but they are meant for a different part of publishing than most agents work within.

December 1st 2021

6 Retweets59 Likes

Twitter avatar for @poetryextensionThe Poetry Extension @poetryextension
#todayspoem "Sharp is an acquired word for an acquired taste. ’Tis better than saying I like the one that tastes like my childhood. I’m learning." Gruyère by Ian Williams (@ianwillwrite) (2017 @TheRustyToque)
Poetry: Ian WilliamsThe Rusty Toque | Issue 13 | Poetry | November 30, 2017bit.ly

December 23rd 2021

2 Retweets4 Likes

Recommended Courses

Pay What You Want 5-Day Comedy Feature Challenge with Daniela Saioni

The 5-Day Comedy Feature Film Premise Creation Challenge involves one thirty minute exercise a day, and is designed to lead you to at least one personal, marketable and funny premise for a comedy feature film by the Friday.


Recommended Reading

rob mclennan’s 12 or 20 (second series) questions with Sharon McCartney

Sharon McCartney: “In practical terms, my first book did not change my life in the least. At that point, I had three children under the age of 10 and three part-time jobs. At the University of Victoria, I had a .75 appointment as a co-op coordinator and a .5 appointment as an instructor in the law faculty, so I was the equivalent of 1.25 people. As well, I was a member of a federal administrative tribunal, which sat for approximately six days each month. It was a busy time. Brian Kaufman and Anvil Press hosted a launch for the book in Vancouver in the first week of January 2000. I stayed overnight at the Sylvia and saw a few people. That was fun, and then I went home to Victoria and got back to work.”

Read more from rob mclennan’s interview with Sharon McCartney.


Spencer Gordon is “Getting Started with Literary Reviews”

Check out his new review site.


The Case Against the Trauma Plot by Parul Sehgal

ICYMI this much discussed article:


F.B.I. Arrests Man Accused of Stealing Unpublished Book Manuscripts

The mystery of the stolen manuscript as been solved. Sort of.


Year One: The untold story of the pandemic in Canada, McLean’s

A comprehensive report on the country's mishandling of the crisis of the century by Stephen Maher March 24, 2021


Alicia Elliot on The Listeners

Twitter avatar for @WordsandGuitarAlicia Elliott @WordsandGuitar
This was very vulnerable for me, as I haven't really written much about my mental health crisis and illness. But seeing parallels to my own experiences of isolation and fear while reading @cruising_utopia's The Listeners has given me an opening to do that.
Can you hear the hum? How the novel The Listeners illuminated my experience with mental illness | CBC ArtsInstead of dismissing people as “crazy,” Alicia Elliott longs for a world where we actually listen to them.cbc.ca

January 7th 2022

22 Retweets123 Likes

Steven Beattie on Naben Ruthnum’s novel A Hero of Our Time

“Naben Ruthnum’s literary novel A Hero of Our Time is a slippery, densely layered satire that calls into question the nature of narrative itself".”

Read more on Steven Beattie’s site That Shakespearean Rag.


Review: The Crude Demagogy of “Don’t Look Up”, by Richard Brody, The New Yorker

Why does Hollywood tackle environmental calamity? Why do stars get involved in wildlife conservation? Why are there so few celebrities who put their name and their talent behind, say, voting rights—without which no progressive project such as the Green New Deal has the slightest chance of being signed into law? It’s not only because everyone loves animals, or because movie stars prefer to spend their vacations in the distant wild than in Maricopa County but because it would be impossible to make a film about the suppression of voting rights without considering whose rights are being abrogated, who’s doing so, and which categories of voters supports the measures. The critique of climate change, by contrast, allows the targeting of mega-businesses and political leaders while leaving individuals—meaning, potential moviegoers and ticket-buyers—outside the scope of criticism. In short, what Hollywood people don’t want to do is to critique a political party, because there goes half the potential box office.

Read more here.


Recommended Viewing

TAP Centre for Creativity: Khashayar Mohammadi and Klara du Plessis

Poets Khashayar Mohammadi and Klara du Plessis blend their practices into a textual and sonic soundscape. View here.


Movie: The Children Are Watching Us

I’ve decided to watch the Italian Neo Realism series on the Criterion Channel. I’ve started with The Children Are Watching Us, which marks Vittorio De Sica’s first collaboration with renowned screenwriter and longtime partner Cesare Zavattini.


TV Show: The Righteous Gemstones

For a fun and lighter viewing, I’m also watching the televangelist satire The Righteous Gemstones (created by Danny McBride).


Call for Submissions

The 2022 CBC Nonfiction prize is now open!

You have until Feb. 28, 2022 at 11:59 p.m. ET to submit your original, unpublished work of nonfiction that is up to 2,000 words.  

Chanel M. Sutherland won the 2021 CBC Nonfiction Prize for her story Umbrella. 

The four 2021 CBC Nonfiction Prize finalists were Alison Hughes of Edmonton for Funhouse Mirrors, Barbara Mackenzie of Yellowknife for Northern Spring, Lee Thomas of Fredericton for My Summer Body and Sarah Van Goethem of Bothwell, Ont., for A Borrowed Husband. 


Montreal Poetry Prize

The 2022 competition of the Montreal International Poetry Prize is now open. The prize is $20,000 and the final deadline is 15 May 2022. 

The Montreal International Poetry Prize is a not-for-profit, grassroots initiative centred on the art of the poem. It is open to poets from around the world and embraces the diversity of contemporary anglophone poetry. 

Each entry must consist of 40 lines or fewer. Multiple entries are welcome. 

Entry fees: $20 CAD regular submission by 1 May / $25 late submission by 15 May / $17 additional entry 

The Montreal Prize recognizes the craft, design, and aesthetics of the stand-alone poem. It emphasizes the space that poetry opens for insight, beauty, and wonder. 

All entries must be original and previously unpublished. The Montreal Prize supports the emergence of new poems and new poets, positioning itself close to the moment of creation, and encouraging the writing and the sharing of original works.  

To submit your work, please visit our submission platform. 


Twitter avatar for @PeriodicityJperiodicities : a journal of poetry and poetics @PeriodicityJ
by the by: periodicities is seeking pieces (interviews, reviews, conversations, essays) in conversation around the Canadian long poem; submissions/questions/queries to: periodicityjournal@gmail.com

January 5th 2022

4 Retweets4 Likes

Recommended Events

Workshop Series

Shifting Perspectives with Stephen Collis and Isabella Wang!

Fridays, January 28, 2022 and February 4, 2022 (online). Register here.


Victoria Film Festival - February 4-13, 2022

You can buy tickets here. There are great industry events through the Springboard Program.


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I love your newsletter! There is always at least one (and usually more) link or idea or rec that wholly resonates. And thank you for making it available to read without a cost, even though it's time consuming to produce, for those of us struggling to redistribute a small amount of writing income to all the worthwhile corners of the word-i-verse.

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