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Benjy’s education
POSTED ON March 5, 2013 BY Maria Schamis Turner
This is the second installment in a series of 11 audio poems collectively known as “The Benjy Poems,” written and directed by Benjamin Hackman, and produced and engineered by Craig Saltz. [Read more...]
A note to the players
POSTED ON February 12, 2013 BY Maria Schamis Turner
This is the first installment in a series of 11 audio poems collectively known as “The Benjy Poems,” written and directed by Benjamin Hackman, and produced and engineered by Craig Saltz. [Read more...]
2012 3Macs carte blanche Prize
POSTED ON November 21, 2012 BY Maria Schamis Turner
Congratulations to Heather Davis! [Read more...]
Editor’s note
POSTED ON November 20, 2012 BY Maria Schamis Turner
We’re extremely proud to bring you yet another great issue of poetry, fiction, photography, graphic fiction, creative nonfiction, audio stories, and our carte blanche Q&A, as we come to the end of our eighth year of publishing. [Read more...]
Hostage to Fate
POSTED ON November 11, 2012 BY Maria Schamis Turner
Listen to Michael Hornburg’s story on how his children forever changed his relationship to Remembrance Day.
Michael told his story at This Really Happened at WordFest in Calgary, AB on October 9, 2012. [Read more...]
Print/digital version of Issue 15 now available
POSTED ON October 29, 2012 BY Maria Schamis Turner
Our newly released print edition of Issue 15 is now available via http://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/443218. [Read more...]
Paper Person Gets Cheered Up
POSTED ON September 18, 2012 BY Maria Schamis Turner
“Paper Person Gets Cheered Up” was created by Meg Ragauskas, a student at Westmount High School. This is the third in a series of three photo essays created by students in Miss Iulia Tripa’s art class at Westmount High. [Read more...]
We Don’t Want Bullies
POSTED ON September 11, 2012 BY Maria Schamis Turner
“We Don’t Want Bullies” was created by Anne Huang, Dristy Barua, Van Nhi Dang, and Rong Xie, all students at Westmount High School. This is the second in a series of three photo essays created by students in Miss Iulia Tripa’s art class at Westmount High.
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Fruit Zombie
POSTED ON September 4, 2012 BY Maria Schamis Turner
“Fruit Zombie” was created by Kane Rodriguez-Tait, Jarad McFarlane, Justin Winikoff, and Evelyn Richardson-Haughey, all students at Westmount High School. This is the first in a series of three photo essays created by students in Miss Iulia Tripa’s art class at Westmount High. [Read more...]
This Really Happened at WordFest
POSTED ON August 28, 2012 BY Maria Schamis Turner
We’re thrilled to announce that carte blanche’s storytelling series, This Really Happened (TRH), is coming to WordFest in Calgary on October 9, 2012!
Featured performers include: Calgary’s Poet Laureate Kris Demeanor, expat American and father of a Canadian war hero Michael Hornburg, puppeteer and educator Candace Ford-Taperek, memoirist Deni Y. Béchard, global adventurer Marcello di Cintio, and the journalist and author Noah Richler. [Read more...]