My story “Climbing into the Sun” is now available from Little Fiction

Check it out here! Dragnet co-editor Andrew Battershill calls it a “Pynchonian clusterfuck,” so you know it has to be good. 

My story "Climbing into the Sun" will be available from Little Fiction April 4.

My 9000-word short story “Climbing into the Sun” will be available from Little Fiction April 4. Exciting!

little-fiction:

I’ve said it before, but I’ll say it again — it’s been an amazing start for Little Fiction. We’re approaching five months in existence and I can’t believe that’s all it’s been[…]

April will see stories from Dragnet editor Jeremy Hanson-Finger and (once again) Will Johnson.

Source: little-fiction

Open Book Toronto article about Dragnet and my own writing

Monica Golding from Open Book Toronto wrote an article about Dragnet and me!

My favourite parts:

Dragnet’s biggest initial challenge was figuring out the technology and making the eBook versions. Jeremy, who is bald, described it as a “tearing my hair out thing.”  

Jeremy is currently working on a manuscript of short fiction called Airplanes and Bad Things Happening to Women. A friend of his noticed that the two things were in everything he wrote, and he thought it would make a funny and fitting title, “so you know what you’re getting.”

Source: openbooktoronto.com

Interview with rob mclennan for Open Book Ontario

Interview with rob mclennan for Open Book Ontario (read more):

rm:

How did you come to poetry first, as opposed to, say, fiction or non-fiction?

JHF:

I took a creative writing class in Grade 11 with Terence Young, a GG-nominated poet, in Victoria. He is my single greatest inspiration and wholly responsible for my realizing I had talent and that I should pursue creative writing. The way he structured the course involved a unit on poetry first, then a unit on short fiction. Previous to that point I’d been fairly uninterested in poetry, because all I’d read was the stuff you read in elementary and early high school, like Robert Frost, whose work I was not at all enthused about. But then Terence introduced me to poets like David McFadden and Sheri D Wilson, and around the same time, my dad introduced me to Richard Brautigan, and I realized that contemporary poetry was a hell of a lot more exciting. I considered myself solely a poet until a few years ago, when I really got into writing fiction that treaded the line between poetry and prose.

Source: openbookontario.com