Photo credit: Margarita Osipian

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.

The Benjy Poems was adapted for the audio stage by the author and is based on a collection of poems by the same name. The poems were performed by their author, with additional voice talent provided by: Jessica Popeski, Benjamin Reinhartz, Caitlin Morris-Cornfield, Schön Faria, Sarit Cantor, and Bradley Benninger.

This project was made possible by the generous financial assistance of CUE. Poems in the series were funded by the Toronto Arts Council and the Ontario Arts Council.

“Benjy’s Education” previously appeared as text in Canadian Literature, as audio in The Collagist and online as a part of a selection of poems that won the Ted Plantos Memorial Award in 2011 from the Ontario Poetry Society.

Photo credit: Margarita Osipian

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.

The Benjy Poems was adapted for the audio stage by the author and is based on a collection of poems by the same name. The poems were performed by their author, with additional voice talent provided by: Jessica Popeski, Benjamin Reinhartz, Caitlin Morris-Cornfield, Schön Faria, Sarit Cantor, and Bradley Benninger.

This project was made possible by the generous financial assistance of CUE. Poems in the series were funded by the Toronto Arts Council and the Ontario Arts Council.

“A Note to the Players” previously appeared in The Collagist #38.

Congratulations to Heather Davis, the winner of the 2012 3Macs carte blanche Prize for her work of nonfiction, Aria, published in Issue 15.

And congratulations to the finalists: Christopher Chew and Ian McGillis.

The juror for this year’s prize was Kevin Chong, the author of four books, most recently the novel Beauty Plus Pity and the memoir My Year of the Racehorse. He is based in Vancouver.

The 3Macs carte blanche Prize is awarded once a year in recognition of an outstanding submission by a Quebec writer, artist, or translator. The prize is sponsored by Mark Gallop, of MacDougall, MacDougall & MacTier Inc.

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.

For this issue, we asked our contributors to send us their stories on “conflict”, the wars big and small that changed their lives. Among them are Erika Dreifus’ violent encounter with a stranger, Gregory Koop’s vision of war through the eyes of one family, and Rob Thomas’ disagreement with his son on the definition of kite.

But almost every story contains a conflict, internal or external, that motivates its characters. We invite you to discover these battles as you peruse these pages.

We may have been publishing for eight years, but we are still growing. Next year, we will produce three issues per year (spring, summer, and fall) on our new improved website – coming soon!

Also, stay tuned for the next This Really Happened event, in Montreal, on January 22nd and, for the second time, at the Blue Metropolis Montreal International Literary Festival in April 2013

Sincerely,


Maria Schamis Turner

Editor, carte blanche

“Hostage to Fate” was told live by Michael Hornburg at This Really Happened at WordFest in Calgary, AB on October 9, 2012.

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“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.

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“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.

It was a normal afternoon in Fridge

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“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.