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Story on CKUA Radio
This week’s Blindman Brewing Session Story features the work of Calgary-based writer, editor, and translator, Paulo da Costa. Inspired by his winter walks through McHugh Bluff, In Motion explores the natural forces that shape our human endeavours and relationships. Listen at CKUA: To listen to this growing collection of stories, or check out these beautiful Super Stout labels, visit CKUA.com/sessionstories
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New Creative Essay in Prairie Fire
Fall 2020, Volume 41, No.3 $14.95 We’re all looking for a little more breathing space and something to hold on to during these troubled times. Living in a House on Fire asks how we live amidst the nameless despair that is constantly smouldering in the background of our lives. At times our despair rages like a forest fire as we grapple with the knowledge that we’re in the midst of mass extinction, leading to deep sadness, depression and anxiety. The stories, essays and poems in Living in a House on Fire give a voice to these worries, shine a light on the darkness humanity is facing, and offer a roadmap…
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James H. Gray Award for Short Nonfiction
WGA CNF Award HR Winners of the 2020 Alberta Literary Awards The Writers’ Guild of Alberta is pleased to announce the winners of the 2020 Alberta Literary Awards. This year’s award winners were announced in an online video release on June 4th. The video is available to watch on our Facebook page and YouTube channel. This celebration marks the 38th anniversary of the Alberta Literary Awards and brought together writers from across Alberta.The Alberta Literary Awards were created by the Writers’ Guild of Alberta in 1982 to recognize excellence in writing by Alberta authors. This year, jurors deliberated over 220 submissions to select winners in the following eight categories. James…
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New Audio Poem
Check out one of my audio poems in www.thismighthelp.ca ! For National Poetry Month enjoy these free short audio poems on the theme of resilience. There are poems by former Calgary poet laureates and by 35 other Calgary poets from the age 10 to seniors. There are experienced poets and people trying the form for the first time. There are high school writers, university writers, and folks with a raft of published books. There are raps, rants, love letters, howls of joy! Take a break, put in some ear buds, walk outside and take a listen. Enjoy!!!
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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 foi selecionada pela Aida Baptista, Ilda Januário e Manuela Marujo Excerto “… Encontrávamo-nos em Novembro, o mês mais triste, decorado de nuvens cinzentas a lavar o mármore dos finados. As mil e uma velas enviavam as suas tranças de fumo para o além, e somente as flores iluminavam a terra, apesar das comovidas preces dos crentes a querer apaziguar a dor. Não obstante os cravos e os crisântemos, o céu e a terra permaneciam encharcados de sombras. Sob o teu…
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New creative essay in Riddle Fence
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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New creative essay in Gavea-Brown
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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The Group of Seven Reimagined: Contemporary Stories Inspired by Historic Canadian Paintings
‘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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New poem in Our Times
Poem – shooed out Visit the site here
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Canadian Writers Abroad – reviews Midwife of Torment
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…
