paulo da costa

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    • Beyond Bullfights and Ice Hockey
    • The Cartography of Being
    • The Green and Purple Skin of the World
    • The Scent of a Lie
    • The Midwife of Torment
  • Audio Books
    • The Scent of a Lie – audio
    • The Book of Catalogues
    • The Midwife of Torment – audio
    • Twenty Poems
    • notas de rodapé – audio
    • xx poemas
  • Livros
    • O Perfume da Mentira
    • notas de rodapé
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Fiction, Stories, Stories - S&L

Palms

Tomás leaned against the muddy wall of the trench furiously whittling a knotted tree branch. He paused, controlled his impatience, not wishing to carve the wrong groove. The knuckles of…

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March 14, 2012
Blog, Crónicas, Ensaio, In Translation, News, Português

Antologia – Avós: Raízes e Nós

O meu texto, As Velas de Novembro, foi incluído na Antologia: Avós: Raízes e Nós, uma obra Comemorativa do Dia dos Avós e publicada em Julho de 2020. A antologia…

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February 2, 2020
Blog, Essays, Essays, News, Reviews, Uncategorized

Enclosures

Check out this podcast from Reckoning Magazine where the editor Michael DeLuca talks about my essay Enclosures. You can read the complete text too or download the podcast to listen…

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June 11, 2022
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    New creative essay in Riddle Fence

    January 20, 2020 /

    New essay published in Riddle Fence, In Search of Spring.   I am in the good company of Lindsay Bird, Alexandra Harvey, John Talbird, Beth Follet, Carmella Gray-Cosgrove and many more.

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    Sharp and True – a book review by the Coastal Spectator

    May 23, 2013

    Enclosures

    June 11, 2022

    Viva Da Costa

    November 22, 2012
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    New creative essay in Gavea-Brown

    January 15, 2020 /

    GB.v42_01 I am in the good company of : ARTIGOS /ARTICLES 1 Vozes da décima ilha: Notas para a história da rádio em língua portuguesa na Califórnia – DINIZ BORGES 8 Visions of Festivities Thinking – PAUL J. MEDEIROS 31 Registo de luso-americanismos na escrita açoriana do século XIX – URBANO BETTENCOURT DIÁRIO /DIARY 33 “Jornal de viagem,” de Dutra Faria: Um olhar sobre o Brasil e os Estados Unidos em 1958 – DUARTE M. B. MENDONÇA 139 Diário da epidemia, Parte – JOÃO BENDITO NONFICTION /NÃO – FICÇÃO 158 Los Angeles – Um monólogo – HELDER ARAUJO 162 The Stones of Yesterday – PAULO DA COSTA 167 Alberto de…

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    Atlantis – sang by Nancy Dutra

    August 7, 2013

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    December 12, 2013

    Impressive Stories – Edmonton Journal

    November 23, 2012
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    The Group of Seven Reimagined: Contemporary Stories Inspired by Historic Canadian Paintings

    May 25, 2019 /

    ‘The Group of Seven Reimagined: Contemporary Stories Inspired by Historic Canadian Paintings’ – including a Foreword by Jim & Sue Waddington, and amazing Flash Fiction by authors: Mike Blouin, Carol Bruneau, paulo da costa, Alfred DePew, Tamas Dobozy, Valerie Fox, Travis Good, Mark Anthony Jarman, JJ Lee, Brett Loney, Lorette C. Luzajic, Yael Eytan Maree, Michael Mirolla, Isabella Mori, Nina Munteanu, Waubgeshig Rice, Dr.Robert Runte, Karen Schauber, Nina Shoroplova, Mireille Silcoff, Mary Thompson, and stunning full-colour reproductions by the Group of Seven Canadian Modernist Landscape Painters, is now available on Amazon.ca for pre-order! (Bogo – buy one gift one!) Huge Congratulations to all the Contributors!

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    January 12, 2016

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    New creative essay in Fiddlehead – Learning to Shave, Learning to Leave

    February 8, 2019 /

    Fiddlehead Introduction 6       Sue Sinclair: Winter 2020 Editorial Creative Nonfiction 48     Sherry Coffey: Hiking the Fundy Footpath 71     paulo da costa: Learning to Shave, Learning to Leave Fiction 7       Emily Bossé: The Most Beautiful Woman in New Brunswick Coming to a Field Near You 26     Shaelin Bishop: Barefoot 64     Diane Carley: Dead Reckoning 84     Shashi Bhat: Facsimile 100   Carmelinda Scian: The Disappeared   Poetry 20     Dani Couture: Two Poems 23     Marika Prokosh: Two Poems 39     Curtis LeBlanc: Two Poems 44     Katie Jordan: Return of the Monarchs 46     Allison LaSorda: Swarm 47     Jake Kennedy: Northrop Frye, Listening to…

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    All Lit Up – Flash Interview

    May 19, 2017

    Obligatory reading for the North American Luso Diaspora – impressions by Diniz Borges

    December 8, 2015

    Mara Bettencourt sings poem by paulo da costa

    February 5, 2014
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    New poem in Our Times

    February 8, 2019 /

    Poem – shooed out Visit the site here

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    August 7, 2013

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    Canadian Writers Abroad – reviews Midwife of Torment

    October 16, 2017 /

      The Midwife of Torment & Other Stories, Guernica Editions: 2017, 202 pages. Reviewed by Irene Marques Calling Us into Seeing and Being More: “Me” and the World The Midwife of Torment & Other Stories by paulo da costa is a book of short stories, or sudden fictions [under 1,000 words], divided into six parts: “Affections,” “Slowness,” “Aqua Libera,” “Beneath Our Beds,” “Force” and “Fathers.” In this collection, we find provoking thoughts unveiled slowly in an incantatory, lyrical language, revealing our deepest yearnings, frustrations, losses, insufficiencies, and happiness(es), too. His work makes us see, feel and be more: to have profound insights into our lives and the world; to understand…

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    September 7, 2013

    Beneath Thin Skin – BC Bookworld feature

    June 6, 2013

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    Short-story in Compostela (Tesseracts Twenty) – Anthology

    September 16, 2017 /

    Tesseracts Twenty: Compostela Compostela (Tesseracts Twenty) is an anthology of hard and soft science fiction stories that best represent a futuristic view of the sciences and how humanity might be affected (for better or worse) by a reliance in all things technological. For more than 1,000 years, Santiago de Compostela (Compostela means “field of stars”) has attracted pilgrims to walk to the cathedral that holds St. James the apostle’s relics. The stories in this anthology in their own way tell the tale of futuristic travelers who journey into the dark outer (or inner) reaches of space, searching for their own connections to the past, present and future relics of their…

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    Focus On Victoria – Magazine – w/ author paulo da costa

    July 8, 2017 /

    By Amy Reiswig An out-of-the-box thinker, writer, editor and translator believes in daring to be different for the social good. http://www.focusonvictoria.ca/julyaugust-2017/paulo-da-costa-the-midwife-of-torment-other-stories-r5/

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    On Writing – Open Book interview with paulo da costa

    June 18, 2017 /

    Interview on Open Book: The idiom “small is beautiful” is often true in fiction – from short stories to microfiction, sometimes the briefest glimpses into an imagined world are the most arresting. The Midwife of Torment & Other Stories (Guernica Editions) by paulo da costa is a perfect proving ground for the potential of the short and sweet – or in da costa’s case, short and beautifully bizarre, experimental, and creative. Referred to as “sudden fiction”, these sub-1000 word stories have a fable-like feeling, pushing the boundaries between traditional and speculative fiction. The pieces are complemented by a series of original black and white drawings by Portuguese artist, João Ventura. We’re pleased to welcome…

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    All Lit Up – Flash Interview

    May 19, 2017 /

    This Short Story Month, we’re interviewing short story writers every Wednesday, here on the All Lit Up blog. paulo da costa’s latest short story collection  The Midwife of Torment & Other Stories (Guernica Editions) is exclusively made up of “sudden fiction” – that is, stories under 1,000 words apiece. With stories like “Roses, Lilacs, and Chrysanthemums” (excerpted below) that manage to be succinct yet utterly evocative of their settings and characters, paulo likens Midwife to a “literary tapas” and shares some of his own influences, below. Read Interview  

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