CanLit Gossip Club

The scene sucks. But at least it could make for a half-decent tabloid.

I’m taking a page out of mariah barden jones/Zona Motel’s book and starting a literary gossip column. Not to step on Jones’s toes, I’m focusing on our own backyard—CanLit. As a result, this will probably be a lot messier, considering that I know some of my own subjects. Still, my pitch to the editors was that if they hosted this column for me I could use it to raise some money for their upcoming print efforts. So here we go. My gossip for your money. Lay it on the table—for art!

I’m mostly just reporting on what people tell me. Maybe we’ll do more of these, maybe we won’t, maybe the fallout will be too great a pain in the ass to continue! Time will tell! But in case we do continue:

GIVE ME GOSSIP

If you submit me juicy enough gossip that I haven’t heard, you’ll get free access to the Gossip Club for a month (email discordia.sucks@gmail.com and they’ll forward it to me). You just have to abide by the two gossip rules:

GOSSIP RULES:

1. Subjects must have at least one published chapbook or book, have a major award or achievement, or be published with decent frequency in Journals Of Repute. I’m not trying to clown on small-time amateurs here. And believe me, there’s a few of those I could give you an earful about. That said, I’ll absolutely love to hear about it anyways, I just won’t run it in the column.

2. No sex crimes. We’re doing Fun Gossip, No Downers—if you have a credible report of a sex crime then contact the police, the CBC, or a lawyer. A lawyer aside from Eris, anyways.

So with that out of the way, let’s begin.