More Screaming

As you can tell, I’ve been pretty wound up in the Scream  lately and the posts have dropped off. There is a review coming very shortly but in the meantime in-between time I wanted to let everyone know that tickets for the book length reading of Christopher Dewdney’s The Natural History are now on sale [...]

Scream Mainstage Set

As inknoire goes into a slight summer lull, the Scream Literary Festival kicks into high gear. We’ve just released the names of those participating in the 15th annual Scream in High Park:
Elizabeth Bachinsky
Sean Dixon
Shane Koyczan
Naila Keleta Mae
David McGimpsey
Roy Miki
Al Moritz
Steven Price
Priscila Uppal
Zoe Whittall
Rachel Zolf
I’ve seen Koyczan preform when I lived in Vernon and he’s a [...]

Nerve Squall – Sylvia Legris

Air bubbles orbit your coffee cup. Wind forever blowing the outside in: pollen, pesticide, exhaust. The weatherman, either indecisive or comtemptuous (take your pick), holds out rain in the one hand and migraine in the other. O blustering succotash! O mother of lightening!
Initially a reader might mistake Nerve Squall, winner of last year’s Griffin Prize, [...]

The Theme

After noticing a few technical errors with our previous blog theme, we decided to change it. Change is good. Even if it involves altering an interface for the fifth time. We’re quite liking this new look. And to give this blog a genuine InkNoire feel, we decided to use Montreal’s skyline as our blog header. [...]

New Lit Events

Ladies and gentlemen, if you look to your top left under the InkNoire heading, you’ll notice that we’ve added a new menu tab to the site. The tab reads *NEW* Upcoming Lit Events. Here you will find a list of forthcoming literary events in Canada. It’s still under construction, as we have to sort out [...]