some author activity: Earl, Brockwell, Pirie, Reid, Ladouceur + Prevost,

Ottawa videographer Liana Vioa conducts a comprehensive interview with poet, editor and blogger Amanda Earl on, as she says, "my poetry, her VERSeOttawa Hall of Honours, my erotica, death & the colour grey"; an interview with Stephen Brockwell, conducted by Pearl Pirie on CKCU's Literary Landscapes, is now online as well; Pearl Pirie discusses Garden: November Unit (Sidereal Press, 2013), the most recent (published) installment of Monty Reid's "garden" series over at her blog (above/ground press produced the September unit back in 2011); the poem "Gran Vals" by Ben Ladouceur wins the Earle Birney Poetry Prize, hosted by PRISM International; and Roland Prevost has a new essay posted on the ottawa poetry newsletter blog as part of the ongoing "On Writing" series.