NOTA - Making the Writing Life Sustainable Tuesday, October 4, 2022 1:45pm - 2:45pm EDT Featured speakers: Erin Moure, Klara du Plessis, Greg Santos. Moderator: Rachel McCrum. “Is a writing life sustainable in English-language in Quebec in 2022? To whom is it accessible? How do writers engage with community and agency in their own careers?” NOTA: Next On The Agenda Literary Conference QC 10am - 5pm EDT In-person tickets for the conference are sold out, but you can register - for free - to attend the conference on Zoom via the following Eventbrite link: (https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/nota-next-on-the-agenda-writing-futures-in-quebec-tickets-400555300687) *** This panel is part of the Atwater Poetry Project Covid Research Project, supported by ELAN and the Secretariat for Official Minority Languages. This conference is co-organised by AELAQ (Association of English-language Publishers of Quebec), the Atwater Poetry Project, Espace de la Diversité//Diversity District, LUQ (Literary Umbrella of Quebec), Quebec Writers’ Federation, and SpokenWeb at Concordia University. The NOTA organisers acknowledge that this conference takes place on unceded Indigenous lands. The Kanien’keha:ka Nation is recognized as the custodians of these lands and waters. Tiohtia:ke/Montreal is known as a gathering place for many First Nations, and home today to a diverse population of Indigenous and other peoples. We respect and are grateful to be able to gather on these lands. (at 4TH SPACE Concordia University) https://www.instagram.com/p/CjHVAxoNL7d8B9iG7bzgiI4v3IyJL4X3Q-vG2c0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
If they accuse me of mysticism, alright, I’m guilty.
I’m a mystic. Now do you feel better?
But it’s only an act of the body.
My soul is simple and doesn’t think at all.
My mysticism is in not wanting to know.
It lives without thinking about living.
I don’t know what Nature is; I just go on about it.
I live where Winnett bends almost double, a little valley,
In a brick house, half a duplex in fact,
built by a man who lost his son at Teruel.
The neighbour beside me throws lasagna to the crows.
There. That’s how you can define me.
Erin Moure, “So I’m a Mystice, And Then?” from Sheep’s Vigil By a Fervent Person, translations of Pessoa
Each time, time’s rupture must be admitted, for every translation destroys time. This is not “an impossible sentence with no meaning.” It is the time or tense of all translation, all writing. Like the future anterior of the phrase “I died,” all translation appears as a monster in time itself.
I love you, with my mute fingers. With butterflies of lace I make you tatted lace. With the blind power of my sad eyes I rehearse a work of theater for you. With my love I make you a forest
Lupe Gomez, tr. by Erin Moure from Camouflage: Poems; “ I Love You”
A young woman is caught in a lie by her suspicious mom. With tensions already high from recently losing a loved one, their relationship unhinges. 2020 SXSW Film Festival Official Selection Short Of The Week Official Selection Credits: Writer/Director: Kim Tran Producer: Erin Miller Executive Producers: Starring: Kim Tran as Zoe Nguyen Stanton as Hanh Frank Sanchez as Andy Linzy Beltran as Roommate Director of Photography: Mariana Gonzalez Editor: Michael Juarez Production Design: A Wortz Sound Recordist: Matthew Kluchin 1st Assistant Camera: Rajinee Buquing Gaffer: Heather Grotheus Script Supervisor: Sophia Loffreda DIT: Michael Juarez Sound Mixer: Korey Pereira Colorist: Mariana Gonzalez Visual Effects: Juan Pablo Jaramillo BTS: Erin Miller Production Assistant: Leah Carlisle Special Thanks: Out There Productions, Michener Center for Writers, Plow Burger, Buzzmill, Mour Cafe, Via 313
A young woman is caught in a lie by her suspicious mom. With tensions already high from recently losing a loved one, their relationship unhinges. 2020 SXSW Film Festival Official Selection Short Of The Week Official Selection Credits: Writer/Director: Kim Tran Producer: Erin Miller Executive Producers: Starring: Kim Tran as Zoe Nguyen Stanton as Hanh Frank Sanchez as Andy Linzy Beltran as Roommate Director of Photography: Mariana Gonzalez Editor: Michael Juarez Production Design: A Wortz Sound Recordist: Matthew Kluchin 1st Assistant Camera: Rajinee Buquing Gaffer: Heather Grotheus Script Supervisor: Sophia Loffreda DIT: Michael Juarez Sound Mixer: Korey Pereira Colorist: Mariana Gonzalez Visual Effects: Juan Pablo Jaramillo BTS: Erin Miller Production Assistant: Leah Carlisle Special Thanks: Out There Productions, Michener Center for Writers, Plow Burger, Buzzmill, Mour Cafe, Via 313
A young woman is caught in a lie by her suspicious mom. With tensions already high from recently losing a loved one, their relationship unhinges. 2020 SXSW Film Festival Official Selection Short Of The Week Official Selection Credits: Writer/Director: Kim Tran Producer: Erin Miller Executive Producers: Starring: Kim Tran as Zoe Nguyen Stanton as Hanh Frank Sanchez as Andy Linzy Beltran as Roommate Director of Photography: Mariana Gonzalez Editor: Michael Juarez Production Design: A Wortz Sound Recordist: Matthew Kluchin 1st Assistant Camera: Rajinee Buquing Gaffer: Heather Grotheus Script Supervisor: Sophia Loffreda DIT: Michael Juarez Sound Mixer: Korey Pereira Colorist: Mariana Gonzalez Visual Effects: Juan Pablo Jaramillo BTS: Erin Miller Production Assistant: Leah Carlisle Special Thanks: Out There Productions, Michener Center for Writers, Plow Burger, Buzzmill, Mour Cafe, Via 313
So this is the last part of my December book haul. I am so excited for the new year and i can’t wait for all the things that i’m going to post in 2018. I hope you all stay for this upcoming year. :)
Godsgrave by Jay Kristoff
Range of Ghosts by Elizabeth Bear
Retribution Rails by Erin Bowman
Snakewood by Adrian Selby
Rest in the Mouring by R.H Sin
Harry Potter and the Philosphers Stone 20th Hufflepuff Edition by J.K Rowling
The Final Empire (U.K Cover) by Brandon Sanderson
The Well of Ascension (U.K Cover) by Brandon Sanderson
The Hero of Ages ( U.K Cover) by Brandon Sanderson
Okay so my next post will be in the new year. I’ll see ya’ll then. ;)