Myna Wallin's Blog
September 10, 2021
Acceptances
This has been a year of staying home, and like a lot of writers, I have done more poetry submissions than ever. The down side of this is the increase in competition. But the upside is that every so often my work is accepted!
This past spring and summer I have had a cluster of yeses: Vallum Magazine, The Miramichi Reader, NōD Magazine, The Quarantine Review, Sledgehammer Literary Magazine, Unfortunately, Literary Magazine, and SHIFT: A Publication of MTSU Write.
Some of these Magazines paid, some had launches, others requested a video of the poem, or audio of the poem. And others took more than one poem.
Seems pretty obvious to say, but the more you submit, the more acceptances that come your way!
This past spring and summer I have had a cluster of yeses: Vallum Magazine, The Miramichi Reader, NōD Magazine, The Quarantine Review, Sledgehammer Literary Magazine, Unfortunately, Literary Magazine, and SHIFT: A Publication of MTSU Write.
Some of these Magazines paid, some had launches, others requested a video of the poem, or audio of the poem. And others took more than one poem.
Seems pretty obvious to say, but the more you submit, the more acceptances that come your way!
December 30, 2017
Happy New Years! And a reading in Jan. 2018
On Jan. 28th, 2018, my short story, "Canadoll" is being launched in the anthology, That Dammed Beaver: Canadian Humour, Laughs and Gaffs (Exile Editions, 2017). Details on venue and time TBA.
Coming out at the end of 2017, this collection has already been on Toronto Star's best books of the holiday season list. No wonder: the contributors include Margaret Atwood, Leon Rooke, Priscila Uppal, Helen Marshall and many more!
Coming out at the end of 2017, this collection has already been on Toronto Star's best books of the holiday season list. No wonder: the contributors include Margaret Atwood, Leon Rooke, Priscila Uppal, Helen Marshall and many more!
February 23, 2017
A Toronto Reading @The Art Bar
Just wanted to let any Toronto-area Goodreads members know that I'm reading @The Art Bar on March 7th, 2017
The Art Bar is held at the fabulous
Free Times Cafe,
320 College Street,
(College/Spadina)
$5 at the door
I am a featured reader along with two other terrific poets. Here are more details:
March 07, 2017, 8:00 pm - 10:30 pm
Your Host: Mike Lummis
Our Feature Readers:
Chris Pannell
Chris Pannell's A Nervous City (2013) won the Kerry Schooley Book Award from the Hamilton Arts Council. In 2010, his book Drive won the Acorn-Plantos People's Poetry Prize and the Arts Hamilton Poetry Book of the Year. From 1993 to 2005 he ran the new writing workshop and published two anthologies of work by that group. He is a former board member of the gritLIT Writers Festival and a former DARTS bus driver. He hosts and helps organize the monthly Hamilton reading series Lit Live. His latest book of poetry Love, Despite the Ache, was published by Wolsak and Wynn.
Myna Wallin
Myna Wallin has published two books: one collection of poetry, A Thousand Profane Pieces (Tightrope Books, 2006) and a novel, Confessions of a Reluctant Cougar (2010). Her forthcoming collection of poetry, Anantomy of an Injury, is being published Spring 2018 with Inanna Publications.
Brenda Clews
Brenda Clews birthday today!
Brenda Clews is a multi-media poet, artist and videopoet whose approach broaches poetry, painting, theory, dance, recordings and video. Poem fragments are written into paintings. Or a painting evokes a poem that is later written into it. She may dance a poem while wearing a mask which has emerged from a painting. She is a multi-media artist whose approach to a topic includes poetry, painting, theory, dance, recordings, and video. Her oeuvre focuses on multiple callings, the obsessive muse. Brenda has had solo art shows at York University, Q Space and Urban Gallery and she has been in many group art shows. She has been published in a number of literary journals over the years. She has a chapbook, "the luminist poems," (LyricalMyrical Press, 2013) and a book of poetry, "Tidal Fury," (Guernica Editions, 2016), and a forthcoming novella, Fugue in Green (Quattro Books, Fall 2017).
The Art Bar is held at the fabulous
Free Times Cafe,
320 College Street,
(College/Spadina)
$5 at the door
I am a featured reader along with two other terrific poets. Here are more details:
March 07, 2017, 8:00 pm - 10:30 pm
Your Host: Mike Lummis
Our Feature Readers:
Chris Pannell
Chris Pannell's A Nervous City (2013) won the Kerry Schooley Book Award from the Hamilton Arts Council. In 2010, his book Drive won the Acorn-Plantos People's Poetry Prize and the Arts Hamilton Poetry Book of the Year. From 1993 to 2005 he ran the new writing workshop and published two anthologies of work by that group. He is a former board member of the gritLIT Writers Festival and a former DARTS bus driver. He hosts and helps organize the monthly Hamilton reading series Lit Live. His latest book of poetry Love, Despite the Ache, was published by Wolsak and Wynn.
Myna Wallin
Myna Wallin has published two books: one collection of poetry, A Thousand Profane Pieces (Tightrope Books, 2006) and a novel, Confessions of a Reluctant Cougar (2010). Her forthcoming collection of poetry, Anantomy of an Injury, is being published Spring 2018 with Inanna Publications.
Brenda Clews
Brenda Clews birthday today!
Brenda Clews is a multi-media poet, artist and videopoet whose approach broaches poetry, painting, theory, dance, recordings and video. Poem fragments are written into paintings. Or a painting evokes a poem that is later written into it. She may dance a poem while wearing a mask which has emerged from a painting. She is a multi-media artist whose approach to a topic includes poetry, painting, theory, dance, recordings, and video. Her oeuvre focuses on multiple callings, the obsessive muse. Brenda has had solo art shows at York University, Q Space and Urban Gallery and she has been in many group art shows. She has been published in a number of literary journals over the years. She has a chapbook, "the luminist poems," (LyricalMyrical Press, 2013) and a book of poetry, "Tidal Fury," (Guernica Editions, 2016), and a forthcoming novella, Fugue in Green (Quattro Books, Fall 2017).
May 19, 2016
Thurs. May 19. 2016
Great news I'd like to share: a contract for my next book has been signed, sealed and delivered. So my next collection of poetry will appear in the Spring 2018 line-up with Inanna Publications, a terrific feminist press based in Toronto! I'm thrilled, to say the least, and it's time to celebrate.
Enjoy the long weekend everyone, especially with a good book!
Cheers,
Myna
Enjoy the long weekend everyone, especially with a good book!
Cheers,
Myna
January 9, 2015
Where the Nights are Twice as Long
Thrilled to say I am in the new anthology, Where the Nights are Twice as Long (Goose Lane Editions, 2015) launching soon, co-edited by David Eso and Jeanette Lynes. My piece, as a contributor, is a vintage, thoroughly embarrassing draft of a love letter I actually send once.