NHT Authors!

Attention friends and fans of Aaron Tucker: check out rob mclennan's blog for a newly posted interview with the talented NHT! Writer-in-Residence and local poet!

In 12 or 20 questions: with Aaron Tucker, mclennan asks the author about the big questions that motivate his writing ("How do people live in cities and not go crazy?" was the starting point for his forthcoming poetry project, apartments, for example.) Also up for discussion are the intricacies of his writing process and the authors he's inspired by (Lisa Robertson, Nathalie Stephens, Margaret Christakos, angela rawlings, Jordan Scott, Charles Olsen, Gertrude Stein, Rem Koolhaas and Jane Jacobs make his shortlist).

For more from the interview, read on!

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We've mentioned the super-cool group Toronto Poetry Vendors on the NHT! blog before, but we didn't go into a lot of detail. Since that post in March, TPV have installed the first of their awesome poetry vending machines at our favourite bookstore This Ain't The Rosedale Library (and we're not just mentioning this because This Aint... are friends of NHT! and sponsors of the book give-aways at the HEAR/HEAR Reading Series). And they're currently preparing to launch their third machine tomorrow night!
 
The third TPV vending machine will be located at Toronto coffee shop Ezra's Pound (238 Dupont St.) and if you head over there around 7:00 pm tomorrow (Wednesday, May 26th) you'll be able to see some fabulous contributors dropping in a toonie and reading their work. Readers at the event include 2009 S.W.A.T. Writers-in-Residence Jenny Sampirisi and Paul Vermeersch, 2010 S.W.A.T. Writer-in-Residence (and upcoming HEAR/HEAR reader) Elisabeth de Mariaffi as well as other amazing Toronto poets Kevin Connolly, Andrew Faulkner, Jacob McArthur Mooney, Stuart Ross, Meaghan Strimas and Carey Toane.
 
Toronto Poetry Vendors is the brainchild of poets Elisabeth de Mariaffi and Carey Toane. The machines are refurbished gum vending machines that now hold broadsides that are individually packaged in bright colours. If you slip your toonie in you'll get a piece of poetry written by one of TPV's ten fantastic contributors — and you never know whose work will come out of the machine; you may just discover work by a poet you didn't know before!
 
For more information about Toronto Poetry Vendors and the locations of  all three of their poetry vending machines, keep reading after the jump!

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Over the course of the winter 2010 edition of S.W.A.T., we're posting brief interviews with each of our participating Writers-in-Residence. We want to give all of you a chance to get to know the amazing people who work so hard to make the S.W.A.T. program a success!
 
Today we present the last (but not least) of our twelve writer interviews — with the nifty Natalie Zina Walschots!
 
Natalie's first book of poetry, Thumbscrews, was published by Snare Books in 2007. Her newest manuscript, Supervillains, is nearly complete. Her work has recently appeared in Rampike, A4, Open Letter, Misunderstandings Magazine, Last Supper, ditch and dANDelion. She has served as the Managing Editor of both filling Station and dANDelion magazines. She also co-curated the Flywheel reading series from 2005 to 2008. Natalie completed her MA in English/Creative Writing at the University of Calgary. She currently serves as a board member for Toronto's Draft reading series. She is also a part of the collective behind Small Print, a workshop and reading series for young writers. Her current base of operations is located in Toronto. She lives in a menagerie with several humans, three cats, and a dog. Natalie Zina Walschots is the S.W.A.T. Writer-in-Residence for St. Mary's.
 
And... you can get to know Natalie Zina Walschots in person this Friday in Ottawa where she'll be reading at the A B Series. Make sure you go check it out if you're in the capital city this week!
 
Our Q & A with Natalie Zina Walschots… after the jump!

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Over the course of the winter 2010 edition of S.W.A.T., we're posting brief interviews with each of our participating Writers-in-Residence. We want to give all of you a chance to get to know the amazing people who work so hard to make the S.W.A.T. program a success!
 
Today we present the tenth of our twelve writer interviews — with the jubilant Julia Tausch!
 
Julia is the author of the novel Another Book About Another Broken Heart (conundrum, 2003). She has had short pieces published in Hobart: Another Literary Journal, Matrix, The Cyclops Review and Career Suicide: Contemporary Literary Humour. Since completing her Master’s in Creative Writing at Concordia University in 2003, Julia has been working in the non-profit sector at several dance service organizations, as a community support worker with an individual with a disability, and as a coordinator for an arts education project with Theatre Direct Canada. She is currently wrangling with her second novel. Julia Tausch is the S.W.A.T. Writer-in-Residence for St. Basil-the-Great College.
 
But wait! You're going to get the chance to get to know Julia in person at the upcoming HEAR/HEAR Reading Series event tomorrow: Wednesday April 21! Make sure you check it out!
Our Q & A with Julia Tausch… after the jump! 
 

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