Charlie Jane Anders at io9 asked an interesting question this week: “Why does science fiction portray extended human lifespans negatively?”. It is an interesting question in and of itself, but it almost immediately raised other questions for me. Specifically, how do science fiction writers treat other advances that may soon be within our grasp. Surprisingly,…
Warning for Writers: Be Careful When Replying to Ads
I’m sure you’ve seen them on sites like Craigslist and Kijiji: Ads that offer money for articles, people looking for freelance writers. Many of them will ask you for sample articles. Well it turns out that in many cases that those aren’t job postings. They are just looking for free content for other people’s web…
Parkdale Street Writers Launches Tuesday
Emily Pohl Weary’s annual workshop for young writers kicks off again this Tuesday: Free workshops for young writers led by kick-ass local authors, comics artists, filmmakers, hip hop poets, and street artists. NEW PROGRAM STARTING DEC 2, 2008! What will we do?* Write about real life* Produce song lyrics and poems* Create our own comics*…
Things Dwight’s Up To
I’ve been rather quiet hereabouts due to a number of things, including the matter of staying out of Justin’s way while he posts the (very necessary) stuff re: our election campaign in progress. For the moment, though, I thought I’d break blog.silence to let you know about a couple of events I hope to be…
New Writers
A total of 5 new people have signed up to write for the site. I’ll let them introduce themselves as they will: For anyone else who is interested the basics go like this: The site is about Canadian arts and culture (and sometimes politics): Beyond that No Deadlines No Assignements (you write about what interests…
Seeking Writers
The primary goal of this site is to promote Canadian content and most especially new and emerging Canadian artists from all fields. Sure, it also dabbles in politics, culture, and miscellany – but that is secondary. Given that, I still need more writers. Ideally I’d like to have more people from Toronto, as well as…