This is a special issue of Winnipeg Review for a number of reasons. First, we are co-publishing part of the issue, which focuses on Canadian poetry, with another Winnipeg magazine, Contemporary Verse 2. I’m especially proud of the extended conversation about the work of the late, great Elise Partridge, by three of her friends: Stephanie Bolster, Barbara Nickel, and Christopher Patton. The four poetry reviews we’re publishing for our issue launch today, along with Jeffery Donaldson’s essay on John Thompson, are only a fraction of what we will post on the site over the next month or so: there will also be a feature review essay by Shane Neilson on Michael Lista’s The Scarborough, Nyla Matuk writing on Robyn Sarah, Jim Johnstone on Michael Prior, Sally Ito on Jan Zwicky, and Ted Nolan on Ins Choi. A big thanks to Clarise Foster and Melody Morrissette at Contemporary Verse 2 for their commitment to the logistical hazards of this somewhat unwieldy project.
In addition to all the above, poetry meets fiction for issue 21, and you’ll find our usual mixture of new fiction reviewed here as well, and columns, new poems, and essays, with more reviews coming through all the way to December. Yes, in case you’re wondering, we hold back reviews to create traffic: call it click bait for the literati.
The second reason this is a special issue has to do with Winnipeg Review itself. I am the founding editor of the magazine, which was originally housed, watered, and funded by Enfield & Wizenty’s publisher Gregg Shilliday, starting in 2010. Between now and then, the magazine has reviewed hundreds of books, attracted thousands of readers, published dozens of new writers, caused the occasional controversy (often poetry-related), and given me a great deal of fun (although we haven’t published one of my rants for a long time, or one of Dale Cummings’s wonderful caricatures).
On the less-fun side, in 2013, when the magazine became independent, I took on a lot of the work that was once absorbed by Gregg’s fine establishment on Garfield Street. As a result, I realized this year that I needed editorial help in order to keep fulfilling the magazine’s mandate.
So allow me to introduce the expanded Winnipeg Review editorial team, which has already begun work and brought you most of the fiction reviews for this issue. All of them are experienced writers and editors in the professional magazine world, and they will, by 2017, be steering the good ship TWR on their own, supplying new energy and intelligence:
Carlyn Schellenberg is an editor and freelance writer, with an English degree from the University of Manitoba, who now works for a trade magazine publisher in Winnipeg.
Julienne Isaacs is a Winnipeg journalist and editor. Her essays, interviews and reviews have been published in The Globe & Mail, CV2, and other places. She is a staff writer for The Puritan magazine.
Shawn Syms has been writing and editing for more than 25 years for over 50 publications, and he is TWR’s new connection to Toronto, where he lives. Shawn wrote Nothing Looks Familiar (Arsenal Pulp) and edited the award-winning anthology Friend Follow Text (Enfield & Wizenty). He’s currently at work on a novel about the power of filthy lucre, fetishistic sex and compulsive gambling called Money Changes Everything.
Ben Wood is a writer who now lives in Winnipeg, where he works as circulations and operations manager for Border Crossings magazine. He holds a Master’s degree in political philosophy and wrote his thesis on Simone de Beauvoir’s novel The Mandarins.
I expect that this new, expanded editorial team will make sure Winnipeg Review flourishes by delighting and frustrating on-line readers well into the future. At some future time, when actually wearing shades, nostalgia for the days of my one-person shop might be in order. In the meantime I may just have a drink, and read something. I hear Martin John is pretty good.
Special Issue with CV2, and Why the Fall and the Future Now Require Shades
Columns
This is a special issue of Winnipeg Review for a number of reasons. First, we are co-publishing part of the issue, which focuses on Canadian poetry, with another Winnipeg magazine, Contemporary Verse 2. I’m especially proud of the extended conversation about the work of the late, great Elise Partridge, by three of her friends: Stephanie Bolster, Barbara Nickel, and Christopher Patton. The four poetry reviews we’re publishing for our issue launch today, along with Jeffery Donaldson’s essay on John Thompson, are only a fraction of what we will post on the site over the next month or so: there will also be a feature review essay by Shane Neilson on Michael Lista’s The Scarborough, Nyla Matuk writing on Robyn Sarah, Jim Johnstone on Michael Prior, Sally Ito on Jan Zwicky, and Ted Nolan on Ins Choi. A big thanks to Clarise Foster and Melody Morrissette at Contemporary Verse 2 for their commitment to the logistical hazards of this somewhat unwieldy project.
In addition to all the above, poetry meets fiction for issue 21, and you’ll find our usual mixture of new fiction reviewed here as well, and columns, new poems, and essays, with more reviews coming through all the way to December. Yes, in case you’re wondering, we hold back reviews to create traffic: call it click bait for the literati.
The second reason this is a special issue has to do with Winnipeg Review itself. I am the founding editor of the magazine, which was originally housed, watered, and funded by Enfield & Wizenty’s publisher Gregg Shilliday, starting in 2010. Between now and then, the magazine has reviewed hundreds of books, attracted thousands of readers, published dozens of new writers, caused the occasional controversy (often poetry-related), and given me a great deal of fun (although we haven’t published one of my rants for a long time, or one of Dale Cummings’s wonderful caricatures).
On the less-fun side, in 2013, when the magazine became independent, I took on a lot of the work that was once absorbed by Gregg’s fine establishment on Garfield Street. As a result, I realized this year that I needed editorial help in order to keep fulfilling the magazine’s mandate.
So allow me to introduce the expanded Winnipeg Review editorial team, which has already begun work and brought you most of the fiction reviews for this issue. All of them are experienced writers and editors in the professional magazine world, and they will, by 2017, be steering the good ship TWR on their own, supplying new energy and intelligence:
Carlyn Schellenberg is an editor and freelance writer, with an English degree from the University of Manitoba, who now works for a trade magazine publisher in Winnipeg.
Julienne Isaacs is a Winnipeg journalist and editor. Her essays, interviews and reviews have been published in The Globe & Mail, CV2, and other places. She is a staff writer for The Puritan magazine.
Shawn Syms has been writing and editing for more than 25 years for over 50 publications, and he is TWR’s new connection to Toronto, where he lives. Shawn wrote Nothing Looks Familiar (Arsenal Pulp) and edited the award-winning anthology Friend Follow Text (Enfield & Wizenty). He’s currently at work on a novel about the power of filthy lucre, fetishistic sex and compulsive gambling called Money Changes Everything.
Ben Wood is a writer who now lives in Winnipeg, where he works as circulations and operations manager for Border Crossings magazine. He holds a Master’s degree in political philosophy and wrote his thesis on Simone de Beauvoir’s novel The Mandarins.
I expect that this new, expanded editorial team will make sure Winnipeg Review flourishes by delighting and frustrating on-line readers well into the future. At some future time, when actually wearing shades, nostalgia for the days of my one-person shop might be in order. In the meantime I may just have a drink, and read something. I hear Martin John is pretty good.