some author activity: Folsom, hastain, MillAr, McCann, Barwin + Sand,

Eric Folsom provides a new essay in the "On Writing" series over at the ottawa poetry newsletter; j/j hastain is interviewed by Amanda Earl over at DevilHousePress; over at his blog, Jay MillAr posts a short essay on Toronto small press legend Crad Kilodney; we seem to have missed this new poem by Marcus McCann in the September 2013 issue of The Steel Chisel; Gary Barwin interviews Geof Huth over at Jacket2; and Kaia Sand has some new work and accompanying statement over at Everyday Genius.

some author activity: Reed, mclennan, Earl, Anstee, Young + Stewart,

Marthe Reed has a new poem up as part of "The Trash Issue" of The Volta, and rob mclennan's small press book fair interview, along with interviews with Amanda Earl, Cameron Anstee and Kimberly Dawkins, was posted as part of a selection of interviews in The Volta's sister publication, The Conversant (the original list of twenty-nine interviews from the fall 2013 ottawa small press book fair is posted here); Amanda Earl's AngelHousePress introduces a new imprint for transgressive work, DevilHousePress; Deanna Young reads at Ottawa's Pressed Cafe's Railroad Reading Series (750 Gladstone Avenue) at 7pm, January 16, alongside Dean Steadman, Susan McMaster, Lesley Strutt and Bruce Taylor; and Fenn Stewart reads with Mat Laporte at Toronto's HIJ Reading Series (260 Ryding Avenue), January 19, 4-7pm.