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Malahat lite is our monthly e-newsletter. Each edition is packed with topical interviews from camera-ready contributors, contest winners, and judges; poignant book reviews; cogent contest updates; snazzy event listings; fetching news (and hearsay) about Friends of the Malahat (a cabal of lovers of the written word in the Victoria area), and, yes, the latest issue of the magazine itself.
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Current
July 2014 Interviews with Issue 187, Summer 2014 poetry contributor Anne Compton and 2013 Creative Nonfiction Contest winner Liz Windhorst Harmer. Call for entries to this year's Creative Nonfiction Contest (deadline August 1). Discounted summer subscription offer, a preview of the summer issue (with great book reviews), and more! Read the newsletter here.
Archives
2014
June 2014 Interviews with Issue 186 poetry contributor A. F. Moritz, 2014 Constance Rooke Creative Nonfiction Prize judge Priscila Uppal, and 2014 Novella Prize winner Dora Dueck. Podcast with Christine Walde on her poems in Issue 186, and influences by Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. Upcoming contest deadlines, Our Back Pages featured issue, and more. Read the newsletter here.
May 2014 Interviews with Issue 186 contributor Amy Jones, longtime Malahat 'Friend' Tricia Dower, and 2014 Jack Hodgins Founders' Award winner Matt Rader. A congratulations to Dora Dueck, winner of the 2014 Novella Prize contest with her story "Mask." Upcoming contest deadlines, book reviews, Our Back Pages featured issue, and more. Read the newsletter here.
April 2014 Spring Issue 186 sneak peek edition. Interview with poetry contributor Michael Prior, and podcast with CNF contributor Terence Young. Interviews with Kayla Czaga, 2012 Far Horizons Poetry Award winner; Bruce Rice, 2014 P. K. Page Founders' Award Winner for Poetry; and Donald Winkler, judge of Les poésies francophones du Canada: A Translation Prize. Upcoming contest deadlines, book reviews, Our Back Pages featured issue, and more. Read the newsletter here.
March 2014 Interviews with Joelle Barron, Tajja Isen and Kelly Cooper, winners of the 2014 Open Season Awards for Poetry, Fiction, and Creative Nonfiction, respectively. Interview with Julie Bruck, 2014 Far Horizons Poetry Contest judge. Details on upcoming contests, including Far Horizons, and Les poésies francophones du Canada: A Translation Prize.
Take a look at March's Malahat lite for all this and more!
February 2014 Special WordsThaw 2014 Promo edition. Interviews with WordsThaw participants Amy Reiswig, Aaron Shepard, and Madeline Sonik. Interview with Issue #185, Winter 2013 contributor Kate Cayley. WordsThaw in the news around Victoria, B.C. Open Season 2014 Award finalists announced.
Take a look at February's Malahat lite for all this and more!
January 2014 Interviews with Issue #185, Winter 2013 contributors Nicholas Bradley and Simone Littledale, and with Andrew Tibbetts, the winner of our 2008 Novella Prize contest.
WordsThaw 2014 website revealed, including information on symposium and prequel events. Upcoming Malahat contests.
Take a look at January's Malahat lite for all this and more!
2013
December 2013 Interviews with a recent 2014 Novella Judges Ann Ireland, Pauline Holdstock, and Greg Hollingshead. Call for submission to At Home in Translation theme issue, and the one-time Québécois Poetry in Translation Prize. Interview with our 2013 Constance Rooke Creative Nonfiction Prize winner, Liz Windhorst Harmer.
- November 2013 Interviews with a recent Friend, Nancy Davies, and with Issue 184 contributors Matt Rader and Concetta Principe. MalaPod podcast with Matt Rader by Malahat volunteer Stephanie Harrington. Q&A with The Bookshelf, a bookstore in Guelph, Ontario. Reviews of books by Daphne Marlatt and Lisa Moore. Invites to submit to our upcoming Novella Contest, and our At Home in Translation Issue.
- October 2013 Interviews with Lisa Martin-Demoor, Carmelinda Scian and Susan Buis, winners of the 2013 Open Season Awards. Learn about Root Memory, an upcoming Malahat-sponsored panel at the 2013 Victoria Writers Festival. Read interviews with two Journey Prize-nominated contributors, Laura Legge and Naben Ruthnum.
- September 2013 Interviews with Jeffery Donaldson, Yasuko Thanh and Mark Abley, this year's judges for the 2014 Open Season Awards. Read a story and interview with issue #183 contributor Armand Garnet Ruffo. Listen to a MalaPods podcast with VWF panelist Maleea Acker. Read an interview with our 2013 Far Horizons Award winner Kerry-Lee Powell.
- August 2013 Read a story and interview with Stephen Marche, a MalaPods podcast with Friend of The Malahat Brent Schaus, a draw for a $25 Russell Books gift certificate, information on a Malahat-sponsored panel at the Victoria Writers' Festival, and our 2014 Open Season Awards.
- July 2013 Interview with 2012 Constance Rooke Creative Nonfiction Prize winner Carla Funk, A MalaPods podcast with issue #183 contributor Dorothy Field, a feature on Malahat-carrier Mac's Fireweed Books in Whitehorse, and info on our Summer Subscription Deal and 2013 Constance Rooke Creative Nonfiction Prize.
- June 2013 Interviews with Constance Rooke Creative Nonfiction Prize judge John Vaillant, issue #182 contributor Anna Maxymiw, 2013 Long Poem Prize winners Kim Trainor and Claire Caldwell, and UVic 50th Anniversary Prize for Poetry winner Pamela Porter. Info on our Summer Subscription Deal and Congress 2013 events.
- May 2013 Interviews with issue #182 contributor Cody Klippenstein, poetry board member Rhonda Batchelor, and Friend of The Malahat Wally du Temple. Info on our Congress 2013 events in June 2013.
- April 2013 Interviews with 2011 Far Horizons Award for Short Fiction winner Zoey Leigh Peterson, Issue #182 contributor Lorna Crozier, 2013 Founders' Award winners Kris Bertin and Matthew Tierney, and a feature on Malahat seller Words Worth Books.
- March 2013 Info on our 1st-annual spring symposium WordsThaw 2013, interviews with the three winners of our 2013 Open Season Awards, interview with 2013 Far Horizons Award for Fiction judge Alissa York, interview with UVic 50th Anniversary Writing Contest in Fiction winner Laura Kraemer, and creative nonfiction and interview with 2012 Constance Rooke Creative Nonfiction prize winner, Carla Funk from issue #181, Winter 2012.
- February 2013 Info on our 1st-annual spring symposium WordsThaw 2013, fiction and interview with Laura Legge from our Winter issue #181, Q&A with fiction board member Matthew Hooton, and a conversation with Friend of The Malahat Sheila Martindale.
- January 2013 Daryl Hine from our Winter issue #181, Sandra Djwa lecture, winter launch info, holiday subscription deals, summary of John Threlfall's "Writing the Arts," Galiano Island Books, and WordsThaw 2013!
- December 2012 Long Poem Prize info and interviews, Sandra Djwa lecture, holiday subscription deals, Chris Donahoe, Carla Funk, and more!
- November 2012 Friends Edition
- October 2012 Fall Issue Edition
- September 2012 Contest Edition
- August 2012 Friends Edition
- July 2012 Summer Issue Edition
- June 2012 Contest Edition
- May 2012 Friends Edition
- April 2012 Spring Issue Edition
- March 2012 Contest Edition
- February 2012 Friends Edition
- January 2012 Winter Issue Edition (.pdf, 153 KB)
2011
- December 2011 Contest Edition (.pdf, 164 KB)
- November 2011 Friends Edition (.pdf, 448 KB)
- October 2011 Fall Issue Edition (.pdf, 133 KB)
- September 2011 Contest Edition (.pdf, 187 KB)
- August 2011 Friends Edition (.pdf, 347.95 KB)
- July 2011 Summer Issue Edition (.pdf, 143 KB)
- June 2011 Contest Edition (.pdf, 288 KB)
- May 2011 Friends Edition (.pdf, 217 KB)
- April 2011 Spring Issue Edition (.pdf, 168 KB)
- March 2011 Contest Edition (.pdf, 280 KB)
- February 2011 Friends Edition (.pdf, 329 KB)
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