THIN AIR presents...HOT AIR

Hey all, We're blogging again this year, over at thinair2009.blogspot.com . Come visit!

Jane Munro with the ring she won as part of the prize for Prairie Fire's Bliss Carman Poetry Prize. (Yah, I know it's blurry. You tr...

The point of this blog is to give people a sense of THIN AIR , and, sometimes, a behind-the-scenes glimpse that even festival attendees with...

Here's the first of the last of HOT AIR material I collected over the course of the festival. I know, I know, it's a bit late. But I...

Hey all, As you may have noticed, THIN AIR is over. That doesn't mean that HOT AIR is also over-and-done. Unlike festival staff, who are...

Does anyone else get an odd feeling that something’s not quite right when they leave a movie theatre when it’s still light outside? Perhaps ...

Jay, Please don’t read this. Send it directly to Ariel after your Saturday post appears. It would be a big help if you could. Thanks. Your F...

Stefan Aarino and Margaret Eve Mackinnon canoodling. Margaret Eve is another of my creative writing classmates, she is also the daughter of ...

My relationship with poetry is a reluctant one, like there is something echoing through me saying, don't waste your time on this. I don...

I was supposed to publish a piece on the Juice launch, but it seems I can’t find it. It was the big finish. Funny thing is...I can’t really...

Flicker-ing: locusts , originally uploaded by hotair.2008 . Thin air volunteers at the volunteer party at Aqua. Sent from my BlackBerry® wir...

To commemorate the last Afternoon Book Chat. I guess everyone was at The Gap? JonArno Lawson and Charlene do a sound check. Charlene introd...

...I got to the Afternoon Book Chat at McNally Polo Park a little late this afternoon. Curses, Winnipeg Transit! Is there anything more wre...

A few sound bites from Andre Alexis , author of Asylum . On stock characters: "What they [the characters in Asylum] represent are peopl...

Flickr-ing: working title , originally uploaded by hotair.2008 . Paul friesen, a member of the Winnipeg slam poetry team, works on his poem ...

a city is a place you are/ who you are is a place in a city Is it the way you are shaped by memories of walking across the Maryland bridge? ...

I needed a permission letter to get in. Note Tavia's stationary. Perry videotaping the panel discussion. The Words On Screen speakers: J...

When I was first asked to blog for the Writers Festival, one of my many demands, my shouting, fist-banging-table demands, was that I be allo...

You are 16 months old and are learning to say things like “eye” and “soulier” (which currently takes the form of “shh shh” and you, pointing...

Flickr-ing: sustenance , originally uploaded by hotair.2008 . The line up for grub at pint of bitter murder. Sent from my BlackBerry® wirele...

Flickr-ing: the writer the book , originally uploaded by hotair.2008 . Michael van rooy looking at his chapbook just before his reading at A...

Since most of my bloggers have commented on Roo Borson 's Big Ideas lecture on creativity, I'm not going to try to find some angle n...

My mobile provider, for all their youth-targeted advertising, isn’t Flickr friendly. My first attempt at a Flickr post was actually sent wi...

I've been suffering from writer's block. I had some good stuff going earlier in the year, and then when school finished (and subsequ...