some author activity: Barwin, mclennan, Waldrop, Hall + Earl,

Gary Barwin has a short film he did with Jenna Mariash, "The Hand," now up at Lemonhound; Ryan Pratt includes two above/ground press titles in his 'top five books I read this year' over at his blog, titles by rob mclennan and Rosmarie Waldrop, linking back to the reviews he originally posted at the ottawa poetry newsletter blog; Phil Hall has the final "Tuesday poem" of 2013; rob mclennan lists his "'best of' list of 2013 Canadian poetry books" over at the dusie blog; and Amanda Earl starts a new 2014 feature over at her blog.

some author activity: Ackerson-Kiely, Poe, Smith, Earl, Wilkinson

Paige Ackerson-Kiely is on the "23 People Who Will Make You Care About Poetry in 2013" list over at Flavorwire (and keep an eye out for her next Ottawa reading: October 21 at The Carleton Tavern as part of The Factory Reading Series, alongside Kate Greenstreet and D.J. Dolack); Deborah Poe and Jessica Smith each have short essays as part of the "Women Looking at Vispo" section of The Volta, guest-edited by Nico Vassilakis; Amanda Earl is interviewed for an article on Bywords.ca for Jam Jar Words; and Joshua Marie Wilkinson has two short films posted up at Omniverse, the blog of Omnidawn.