The 2014 Annual Prose and Poetry Contest Winners
John Vigna announced the winners of the 2014 Annual FreeFall Prose and Poetry Contest: Prose: Paul-André Betito Joy J. Henry … Kim McCullough Poetry: Michael Fraser Bruce Meyer Amber Moore…
Book Review of Blue Sonoma by Jane Munro
Micheline Maylor A Review of Blue Sonoma By Jane Munro Brick Books $20.00 ISBN: 978-1-926829-88-3 Blue Sonoma is a collection that begins with a mantra and becomes a study of…
J.D Mersault’s Book Review of “7 Ways to Sunday” by Lee Kvern
J.D Mersault A review of: 7 Ways to Sunday …
2014 Contest Short List
2014 Poetry Short List Prose Short List Commerce This Story was on the TV News Spider Canada’s Breakup Guide You Chubby Assassin Let Nothing Ye Dismay But By God You…
gillian harding-russell’s Book Review of “A Private Mythology” by Stephen Morrissey
gillian harding-russell A review of: A Private Mythology By Stephen Morrissey Ekstasis Editions ISBN 978-1-877171-055-8 In A Private Mythology, Stephen Morrissey writes poems that are obliquely confessional while delightfully clothed…
Marcello Di Cintio Interview with John Vigna, FreeFall’s Upcoming Contest Judge
Marcello Di Cintio sat down with FreeFall’s upcoming judge, John Vigna, for some quick questions: M: What elevates a piece of writing beyond ordinary? JV: A compelling, authentic narrative voice; brutal truth…
In Defence of Meaning
Richard Harrison (February 3, 2010) Last November’s much anticipated Cage Match at Mount Royal University promised us Christian Bök and Carmine Starnino – poets with opposing views of poetry in…
Book Review of John Vigna’s “Bull Head”
Micheline Maylor A review of Bull Head by John Vigna Arsenal Pulp Press (2012) ISBN: 978-1-55152-490-0 $15.95 The epigraph to John Vigna’s debut short story collection begins with Flannery O’Connor’s…
Book Review of Julie Paul’s “The Pull of the Moon” by Julienne Isaacs
Julienne Isaacs A review of The Pull of the Moon by Julie Paul Brindle & Glass Publishing (2014) ISBN: 978-1-926531-51-9 $19.95 Julie Paul’s world is small-scale, human-sized, peopled by x-ray technicians and waitresses, all…
Press Release
For Immediate Release Contact: Heather Wood, tightropeasst@gmail.com, Jim Nason, jimnason@sympatico.ca Poet and Fiction Writer Jim Nason Purchases Tightrope Books (Toronto, September 17, 2014) Tightrope Books, the independent Canadian publisher of…