Guernica Editions

"The usual moves – draw the curtains, look at the rain, open the damper on my woodstove, feed it some kindling to get it going again, then a couple of larger logs. CBC news and weather. A walk along the ocean-front, then around the block to home, muddy driveway, fill the wheelbarrow with firewood, trundle it to the backdoor. Breakfast. Computer station. Existential questions. Why write? To process and understand what’s happened in my life. Why keep on promoting? A book is like a child. It must be pushed forward into the world, encouraged every day."

Read more:

http://mysmallpresswritingday.blogspot.com/2020/02/a-day-in-life-of-promoter-by-amanda-hale.html

It cannot be easy to write humorous fiction, although it does seem to come naturally to some. In the television world, they have writing teams, but in the sequestered world of the writer, it’s all on them to produce a work that is not only funny but interesting as well, that tells a story. The Transaction is such a story and from all appearances, Mr. D’Izzia appears to have the delicate mix of humour and earnest literature in fine control in this, his debut novel from Guernica Editions.

Read the full review:

https://miramichireader.ca/2020/02/transaction-review/

Author Nayman has a remarkable gift for description which enables us to imagine that we are with her on her remarkable journey, seeing the sights that she sees, and learning Jewish history along the way. We also feel the confusion and guilt that she feels. She has learned on her travels what became of her ancestors and their families. Should she tell her great-grandmother’s brother not to stay in Lithuania because years later he and his family would be murdered by the Nazis?

Could she tell her grandmother, then abhorring life in South Africa, that someday she would live in Australia, and have the wonderful daughter that would become Emily’s own mother?

Would any of these disclosures change history? Would she dare?

Full review:

https://www.sdjewishworld.com/2020/02/05/time-traveling-through-jewish-history/

A beautifully shaped novel with gentle notes of human frailty and sadness that evokes compassion, Tacet is not a depressing novel, far from it for it holds out the hope that a caged bird-like Charlotte can be a free one if they take the opportunity to shake their gilded confines.

Full review:

https://miramichireader.ca/2020/02/tacet-review/

Michael Mirolla cuts into his 16-hour writing work day to reflect on the holiday season from the Historic Joy Kogawa House. On top of finishing his latest manuscript, he helps us all navigate those complicated yuletide thoughts. We all hope Michael gets his bottle of Lagavulin!

https://www.kogawahouse.com/wp/blog/2019/12/18/of-atheists-and-interruptions-random-yuletide-thoughts/

"Elana Wolff, my editor at Guernica, taught me the potency of a single word within a poem." -Margo LaPierre "Margo LaPierre (www.margolapierreeditor.com) is a queer, neurodivergent Canadian poet and fiction editor. Her debut collection of poetry, 'Washing Off the Raccoon Eyes', was published by Guernica Editions in 2017." Read more about Margo's inspiring work in an interview with Train: A Poetry Journal.

http://trainpoetryjournal.blogspot.com/2019/12/an-interview-with-margo-lapierre.html