Monthly Archives: "May 2014"

As promised, the following post is a follow-up interview with Jacob Wren, author of Polyamorous Love Song. The questions are based on Wren’s prior interview with BookThug’s Fiction Editor, Malcolm Sutton, on March 20, 2014.  After catching up with Wren at the Pivot at The Press Club event on May 7, we just had to

One of the most interesting aspects of working as an intern at BookThug, is living and embodying the inspiring phrase “Literature of the Future.”  Kristen and I are given complete creative freedom to push and develop our own ideas for the blog. One of the ideas we’ve come up with is a fun interview questionnaire

“From literary to slam, formal to experimental, read, spoken, and performed, the Art Bar is open to all forms of poetry.” – Art Bar The Art Bar Poetry Series is Canada’s longest-running weekly poetry reading series. Since 1991, the Art Bar Poetry series has been showcasing both burgeoning and well-established poets from Canada and abroad. Although

Saturday May 10 was the Grand Opening for Loft 112, a new creative and literary space in Calgary’s East Village. Loft 112 is a commercial space/loft apartment that will serve as locus for the arts and academic community, for writers of all ages, all aesthetics: “Loft 112 is a creative hive where ideas are given

Greetings Faithful BookThugs — we are pleased to introduce to you Puneet Dutt and Kristen Smith who are interning with us from Ryerson University’s Literatures of Modernity program. As part of their work with BookThug they will be contributing to our blog on a regular basis with various goings on of the press. Enjoy!