Soliloquies Anthology

Writers forthcoming in Soliloquies 15:

Forrest Orser
Forrest Orser has had 11 poems and one short story accepted for publication. Since 1978 he has worked first as a reporter and then as an editor for The Daily Gleaner, Fredericton’s newspaper.

Madeleine Lee
Madeleine Lee is from Toronto. She studied Creative Writing, Linguistics, and Film Studies at Concordia University in Montreal. Her favourite famous bear is Paddington Bear.

Jeremy Hanson-Finger
Jeremy Hanson-Finger recently defended his MA English thesis on the politics of the carnival in Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow and David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest. He is also a founding co-editor of The Moose & Pussy, Canada’s sex-enthusiasts’ journal. Jeremy now lives in Toronto.

Alex Manley
Alex Manley is a 22-year-old Creative Writing major at Concordia born and bred on the island of Montreal. He is currently the Copy Editor of Concordia’s The Link newspaper, which was kind enough to publish some of his short fiction prior to his tenure there. He’s approaching two years as a vegetarian, and recently converted his star sign from Virgo to Scorpio, describing the results so far as ‘promising.’

Russell Helms 
Russell Helms is the managing editor for Jelly Bucket and has recent stories in Assembly Journal, antiTHESIS, Qarrtsiluni and other journals, and a story in the fiction anthology a la carte (2010) from Main Street Rag.

Frankie Barnet
Hailing from Edmonton, Alberta, Frankie Barnet is a young writer currently living in Montreal and attending Concordia University in the field of English Literature and Creative Writing.

Jesse Chase
Jesse Chase folks through life reading, writing, rapping and singing his songs on an acoustic guitar. Over the past 3 years he has been gathering research to compile a project mapping the ecological acoustic properties of a linguistic Babylon. He is from Cornwall, Ontario.

Guillaume Morrisette
Guillaume Morissette writes poetry and fiction and emails. He is a creative writing major at Concordia, which is probably the closest you can get to majoring in sadness. His work has appeared in Lickety Split, Synapse, Papirmasse and other places. He lives in montreal.

Candice Maddy
Candice Maddy is in the last semester of her undergraduate degree in Creative Writing at Concordia University. She has previously been a special fx and prosthetics makeup artist, a made-to-measure suit specialist, a French teacher, and a Jew in a Catholic school.

Veronique Reagan-Marchand
Veronique is an undergraduate in Honours English Literature and Creative Writing, whose goal is to coin cyber fiction and cyber poetry as proper genres. Her interests lie in the realms of cyberspace, language, and communications.  She lives with her fiancé Arturo, and their two cats, C# and Java whom they pwn every day. She someday hopes to visit the UK, and Australia where she plans to master both accents.

Jeff Blackman
Jeff Blackman co-founded The Moose & Pussy, Canada’s premier sex-lit mag, with his partner Kate Maxfield, and award-winning writers Jeremy Hanson-Finger and Rachael Simpson. Jeff was recently featured by the In/Words Reading Series and VERSeFest, Ottawa’s trans-genre poetry bash. He’s been banging out poems about maturity and Mario 3 (Nintendo, 1988) for a project tentatively titled “Oh, Thank Heavens I’m Back To My Old Self Again!”

Matthew Macaskill
Matthew Macaskill is a second year Creative Writing Major at Concordia University. He’s a born and raised Montrealer and read live at the November installment of the PILOT Reading Series. Matthew remains an unpublished Canadian author due to a severe case of timbrophobia.

Brandon Haller

Rebecca Pãpucaru
Rebecca Leah Pãpucaru is an internationally published poet, and currently a PhD student at the University of Montreal. Her poetry and prose have been shortlisted for a number of awards in Canada, including Arc Magazine’s Poem of the Year. Her poetry has been anthologized in the 2010 edition of The Best Canadian Poetry in English (guest editor Lorna Crozier and series editor Molly Peacock), and in the Headlight anthology of emerging writers. In Canada, her poetry has appeared in Prism International, The Antigonish Review, Acta Victoriana, and Existere, while both her poetry and prose have been featured in The Nashwaak Review. In the United States, her poetry has appeared in The Orange Coast Review, the Emerson Review, Kestrel, and Caesura: the Journal of the Poetry Center San Jose. In Ireland, her work has appeared in Crannóg. Moreover, she is the Education Chair of the League of Canadian Poets.

John Wall Barger
John Wall Barger’s second book, Hummingbird, is forthcoming from Palimpsest Press in Spring 2012. He divides his year between Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Tampere, Finland.