THIS SIDE OF WEST

This Side of West wants your art to cover our literary journal!!

The theme of our 10th issue is: On the Edge

Full colour as well as black & white images are accepted.  The dimensions of the journal runs 6×9 inches.

Keep in mind the journal title and the theme will appear on the front. Feel free to incorporate them into your image. I like the Walkway Expand Black font best and will be using it for the cover as well as the title page.

Submit your stuff by January 31 @ 11:59pm to our website
Register here: http://journals.uvic.ca/index.php/thissideofwest

What a great night! The editors read their work to a packed audience that filled the seats in Intrepid Theatre and sitting room was made on the stage. We’d like to extend a huge thank you to everyone who came out to support the event! Here are a few pics from the evening:

The editors at This Side of West are excited to be reading their work at Intrepid Theatre Club on Thursday, November 24th at 7 pm! Refreshments, entertainment and fun aplenty. $4 admission charge will go towards funding this year’s print publication. Hope to see you there!

Hello, Fellow Writers!  I’m very excited to be Editor in Chief for the 10^th issue of This Side of West.  Over the past year, several members of Victoria’s writing community have been continually recognized on a national and international level for their excellence in craft and ambitious imaginations.  As students of the University of Victoria, it has been our privilege to be taught by some of these writers and to be attentive listeners at public readings where we have been inspired again and again.  As EIC it is my goal to publish all the sparks and shimmering hints of ingenuity stirring within UVic students.  And this year I am privileged and honoured to be working with yet another crew of UVic’s finest and dedicated writers to produce an unforgettable 10^th issue of such a well renowned magazine.

- Vanessa

Upcoming events to take note of:

+ This Side of West’s annual Editor’s Reading
+ Submitting your work to TSoW by December 1, 2001. Please see guidelines here.
+ 2^nd Annual Grad Reading ~ March 2012
+ A writer’s pub crawl

TSoW editors Michelle Brown, Vincent Colistro, Katie Fritz and Hilary Smith all read at the book launch for vice-editor-in-chief Will Johnson’s collection of columns Melodramatic Musings.

You can check out more pictures HERE and you can buy a copy of his book HERE.

The Melodramatic Musings book launch will feature readings from TSoW editors Michelle Brown, Katie Fritz, Hilary Smith, Will Johnson and Vincent Colistro.

The show gets started at 7:30 on Thursday April 14, at Intrepid Theatre, on the corner of Blanshard and Fisgard. For more information: http://www.goodwilljohnson.com/2011/03/sneak-peek-melodramatic-musings-cover.html

Check out TSoW’s vice-editor-in-chief Will Johnson’s interview with writer Kris Bertin, who recently won The Malahat Review’s Jack Hodgins Founder’s Award for fiction: http://www.goodwilljohnson.com/2011/04/stay-focused-eat-healthy-dont-kill.html

UVic student Erin Fisher’s short story “Bridges” has been selected as the winner of PRISM International’s fiction contest! Congratulations, Erin! Check out her blog at http://www.wrongasparagus.ca/

That’s two years in a row, guys! (Last year, Eliza Robertson won.) Let’s keep the trend going!

Chelsea Rushton, the former editor-in-chief of This Side of West, is releasing her first book of poetry “Sunmoon” along with UVic students Neil Surkan and Sarah Burgoyne.

Congratulations, guys!