Short Stuff online

Articles, Stories, Poems & Ephemera

Cultural Articles

• Seven Points on Comic Production details the lessons I’ve learned the hard way about publishing my own comic (on the No Media Kings site).
• Judith Merril's legagy, an essay published as a preface to Homecalling, an omnibus collection of (Emily's grandmother) Merril's short fiction.
• My Urban Manifesto is a rant read aloud on the CBC Radio show Here and Now. It was originally written for the lit mag Descant's suburbia issue. You need Realplayer to listen to the 2.22-minute ride.
• Total Sell-Out Now On Sale! (about zinester ethics) written for This Magazine, because everything's political.
• Video: It's Not Just Cheap Film is an article about the aesthetics of low-quality video art written for the (sadly defunct) Toronto art mag Lola.
• Starting Your Own Writer's Workshop is an article written for novelist (and friend) Jim Munroe's resource-intensive website, No Media Kings.
• The Moral Pornographer is a profile of Toronto author Tamara Faith Berger (who wrote Lie With Me, The Way f the Whore) for Taddle Creek magazine.
• Postering Public Space: Can DIY Poster Pirates Reclaim Your Downtown? was written for Broken Pencil, and a slightly revised version was recently printed in the Baltimore Urbanite.

Short Stories

• Zoe Whittall's fun anthology Geeks, Misfits and Outlaws printed Emily's short story Dangerous Places.
• Got 'Em All Spinning appears on the online counterpart to a great zine from Chicago, The2ndHand, edited by writer Todd Dills.
• My translation of Quebecois author Daniel Gagnon's short story "The Inaudible Soprano" ("La chanteuse inaudible") appears alongside the original in Translit Volume 5, an anthology of literary translations (not online).

Poetry

• Taddle Creek magazine has a couple poems online: Best Violin and What I Learned Growing Up in Parkdale.
• The Lexiconjury reading series has another one online: Artist.
• And here are a few more: It's All Frida K's Fault, Fifteen, My Gold Hair Is so Unreliable and Shooting the Shit.

Video Poems

You need a (free!) program like Windows MediaPlayer in order to watch these...

Download Balls, Because and Coffee, Emily's first forays into the world of video. The thirty-second shorts, which she created with designer John Hodgins.

More recently, when my book Iron-on Constellations was released, filmmaker and new media artist Andrew Macrae helped me make five more video poems (above).

A Play

Several years ago, I wrote a frenetic science fiction play with Maggie Macdonald. Yes, the ghost of Emma Goldman can rise from the dead to inspire revolting behaviour on the part of two average mall girls! Download a draft of Revolution Mallstyle.