About the Author
Daniel Scott Tysdal
Daniel Scott Tysdal is the author of two previous books of poetry, The Mourner's Book of Albums and Predicting the Next Big Advertising Breakthrough Using a Potentially Dangerous Method, winner of the ReLit Award for Poetry, the Anne Szumigalski Poetry Award, and the John V. Hicks Award. Tysdal's poems have also appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies. His book The Writing Moment: A Practical Guide to Creating Poems was recently published by Oxford University Press. He teaches English at the University of Toronto Scarborough.
For National Novel Writing Month aka NaNoWriMo, we rounded up 22 tips and tricks from established writers, including a two-time winner of the 3-Day Novel Contest, to encourage and unlock your creativity.
Lots this week, including another leg of the Ask & Answer tour and a book launch for a collection of Indigenous spec fiction (!).
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It's entirely possible that you've never seen a poetry collection that looks like Daniel Scott Tysdal's third book of poetry, Fauxccasional Poems (Goose Lane Editions). Its tabloid-inspired cover conceals Tysdal's thoroughly imaginative historical counterfactuals – from ... Read more
If you're in Toronto this week, IFOA's Battle of the Bards is like a pregame for April's poetry month! And if you're not, don't worry - there's a lot going on in Hamilton, Montreal and Vancouver, too.
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Holy lit events! You can't swing a cat without missing a great one this week.
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