paulo da costa

bilingual author

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    • Trust the Bluer Skies
    • 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
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    • The Book of Catalogues
    • The Midwife of Torment – audio
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    • notas de rodapé – audio
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  • Books
    • Trust the Bluer Skies
    • 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
  • Multimedia
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      • Book Excerpts
      • Interviews
      • Lectures
      • Readings
    • Videos
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    Keynote Address & Teaching the Short Story State of Mind at AWC

    May 19, 2023 /

    Get Lit Writer Series – Alexandra Writers Centre With award-winning authors like Alice Munro, Haruki Murakami, George Saunders, Kurt Vonnegut, there is so much to love and learn. Spend a day Getting Lit on short stories. Learn craft, process, publishing and so much more. Guaranteed to put you in that Short Story State of Mind. May 27, 20239-5pmAWCS Members: $150 | Non-Members: $200 Keynote & Presenterspaulo da costa | Lee Kvern | Leslie Greentree |Sarah L. Pratt | Robert Bose Note: Participation in Get Lit is entirely IN PERSON.Full schedule with times will be available to participants. Blue Pencil Sessions with Your Favourite PresenterSubmit up to 1500 words of a…

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  • News,  Stories,  Sudden Fiction,  Teaching

    The Art of Micro-Fiction

    January 13, 2022 /

    Tuesday March 21 2023 7-9 pm MT Sign Up Instructor: paulo da costa From one sentence-long to 1000 words stories, join paulo in learning the necessary skills to hone your writing craft in order to deliver a compact and compelling narrative. Learn to effectively distill a story down to its most impacting emotional moment. Successful micro-fictions leave a lasting impression on a reader’s mind. paulo has been writing sudden fiction since the 90’s and has published over 100 sudden fictions in his writing career. His micro fictions have won competitions, have been anthologized internationally, translated to other languages and recorded in audiobooks. His latest work, The Midwife of Torment and…

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

    July 8, 2017

    New essay in Queen’s Quarterly

    September 16, 2016

    The Cartography of Being – by Nuno Judice – Reviewed in The Malahat Review

    October 22, 2014

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