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Storytelling event at Blue Metropolis Literary Festival

POSTED ON April 15, 2012 BY Maria Schamis Turner

This Really Happened, carte blanche‘s true storytelling event, will be at the Blue Metropolis Literary Festival. Join us at the Hotel Opus on April 19, 2012, at 8 pm.
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NEWS: Announcing our POD and digital version

POSTED ON March 8, 2012 BY Maria Schamis Turner

We are very happy to announce that a print-on-demand & digital version of carte blanche is now available via MagCloud. You can purchase a copy here. [Read more...]

The Family of Literature

POSTED ON January 28, 2012 BY Maria Schamis Turner

“The Family of Literature” was told by Joel Yanofsky at our storytelling evening, This Really Happened, at Café Sarajevo on December 6, 2011. [Read more...]

Bring the Doll to Life – An Obsessive Childhood

POSTED ON January 20, 2012 BY Maria Schamis Turner

“Bring the Doll to Life” was told by Taylor Tower at This Really Happened at Café Sarajevo on December 6, 2011. [Read more...]

Best of 2011

POSTED ON January 1, 2012 BY Maria Schamis Turner

We asked our contributors from the past year for their reading picks from 2011. Here is what they had to share.
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Montreal Storytelling Event

POSTED ON November 28, 2011 BY Maria Schamis Turner

carte blanche and This Really Happened bring you an evening of nonfiction storytelling on the theme of OBSESSIONS. December 6th at Café Sarajevo, 6548 boul. St. Laurent
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2011 3Macs carte blanche Prize

POSTED ON November 23, 2011 BY Maria Schamis Turner

Congratulations to Gillian Sze! [Read more...]

On Obsessions – Editor’s Note

POSTED ON November 22, 2011 BY Maria Schamis Turner

The word obsessions often comes with negative connotations. It’s not healthy to have obsessions (think OCD, hoarders, or stalkers). But where would we be without them? [Read more...]

My Constant Companion

Michelle Barker

We listened to talk shows
and requiems,
chatted about acid rain,
flirted a little. [Read more...]

Constraint on An Uneasy Sea ~ obsessions

Julie Mahfood

A maze
cannot navigate. To slough off:
like skin cells, turn from a fine

powder, into into earth into sand
into skin oil and light. Burn. [Read more...]