Queering CanLit
Join Larissa and guests as we dive into the worlds of publishing and writing from a critical queer perspective. Top picks, current news, events, existential encounters, and much more!
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Poetry As Resistance with Sophie Crocker
Sit down with Larissa and Sophie as they discuss how poetry as an art form is used to resist violence and injustice. Learn about amazing modern poets who use their work to change the world and how you can get involved. Grab your favourite work and resist with us on episode 7.
Sit down with Larissa and Sophie as they discuss how poetry as an art form is used to resist violence and injustice. Learn about amazing modern poets who use their work to change the world and how you can get involved. Grab your favourite work and resist with us on episode 7.
Resources provided by Sophie are below! They are in order that they appear in the audio, and additional ones she sent are at the bottom. Thank you so much, Sophie!
Eve Tuck
“Decolonization is not a Metaphor”
Danez Smith
“Antipoetica” in Bluck
Rainer Maria Rilke quote:
“Let everything happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final”
Maya Angelou
“Still I Rise”
and other writings!
Mary Baraka
Somebody Blew Up America and Other Poems
Dionne Brand
Nomenclature
The Blue Clerk
Salvage: Readings from the Wreck
Chimwemwe Undi
Scientific Marvel
Poets Soph knows personally to check out!
Leslie Joy Ahenda
Brandi Bird
Noor Hindi (Palestinian Poet to check out)
“Fuck Your Lecture on Craft, My People Are Dying”
Mahmoud Darwish (Palestinian Poet to check out)
The Kaveh Akbar lecture is “Towards the Revelatory Break.”
Timothy Snyder
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From the Twentieth Century
To find at your library and elsewhere:
Libby the Library App
Franny Choi
Chen Chen
The Tin House Podcast
The Versus Podcast
Additional:
Sophie recommends Deaf Republic by Ilya Kominsky, Shadow Price by Farah Ghafoor, most work by June Jordan, and most work by Morgan Parker.
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Why Spec Work Isn't it with Mary-Margret Degraaf
Join Larissa with special guest Mary-Margret Degraaf for a comparative episode on speculative work. Hear the perspective of a professional graphic designer and learn your value! Come hang out with snacks and cats on episode 6 of Queering CanLit.
Join Larissa with special guest Mary-Margret Degraaf for a comparative episode on speculative work. Hear the perspective of a professional graphic designer and learn your value! Come hang out with snacks and cats on episode 6 of Queering CanLit.
Resources mentioned:
The hilarious video that makes everything so clear, hopefully for even the toughest art haters. Click here.
The RGD on the FIFA poster contest held in Vancouver. Click here.
Episode 5: Let’s Hang Out
Join Larissa for a casual episode where we will read and react to some r/reddit posts, take a trip to salt corner, and chat about a cool queer bookstore. Come hang out on episode 5 of Queering CanLit.
Check out these links
We love this awesome queer bookstore, Cross & Crows Books
Head right over to the subreddit r/writing for some fun >:)
Interested in writing grants to fund your work? Live in BC? Make sure to visit the BCAC website before October 17th to see if any of their programs work for you! But, you know, then you gotta play ball
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Episode 4: The MFA: Worth it, or not?
Join Larissa and Eavesdrop's Managing Editor, Claire Miller-Harder, to dive into the pros and cons of an MFA. With personal experience, Claire and Larissa discuss what the program looks like and what students can expect while sharing some personal experiences from the MFA journey and beyond. Come join the Eavesdrop team on episode 4 of Queering CanLit.
Episode 3: Finding an Agent in 2024
Join Larissa to have a virtual coffee chat about agents: why you may or may not need one in 2024. Come hang out on episode 3 of Queering CanLit!
Some resources for later:
How to write query letters:
How to write a synopsis:
TL;DR pros and cons list of traditional publishing vs self-publishing here from Writer’s Digest.
I forgot to mention it in the podcast (oops, chaos brain), but another thing to consider with self-publishing is that large Art Council grants often require one traditionally published book for an author to be seen as a “qualified professional” eligible for grants. If we ever win a legacy fund here at Eavesdrop, I hope we can make grants that encompass more than that. Tell your single, elderly estranged uncles about us!
Speaking of that, bonus grant resource: check out Little Dog Creative Consulting. Exciting things happening there soon for artist grant software!
Episode 2: Talking Body With Cid V Brunet
Join Larissa and special guest Cid V Brunet to discuss embodied writing, a new publishing house, and read a few Reddit questions with them on episode 2 of Queering CanLit.