an article on me by nigel beale for guerilla magazine

Here's an interview Nigel Beale did with me for Ottawa's fabulous online cultural magazine, Guerilla, a few weeks ago, posted a day or two back. I'm not sure what I think about it, an article that talks about how little attention my work gets, yet falling into the same problem itself. Is it sour grapes? Is it, as someone suggested, diva behaviour? Is it wrong to want, as an author, a journalist to focus on the writing instead of the writer?

Micro-fiction
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Guerilla is a quarterly consideration of Ottawa culture at ground level: the celebrated, the unknown, the historic, and the avant-garde.
The 2008 Guerilla Magazine Micro-fiction Contest
Create a world with just 300 words


The Contest

Entry Deadline: January 10, 2008
Open to all residents of the Capital Region (i.e. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada and area)
No entry fee
Winning entries published in the print and online editions of Guerilla #15 (March 2008)
Top three entries paired with an original illustration by Anthony Tremmaglia (http://www.tremmaglia.ca/)
Honourable mention entries may also be published

Winning entrants receive a Guerilla t-shirt and other prizes courtesy of the Ottawa International Writers Festival.
Winning entrants retain copyright but grant first publishing rights to Guerilla magazine for a period of six months.


The Micro-fiction

Be 300 words or less
Be previously unpublished
Contain at least once instance of the word "Ottawa"
Be clearly recognizable as fiction (not poetry or prose poetry)
Be e-mailed to: microfiction@getguerilla.ca by midnight Jan 10, 2008