Chor der Pilze arrives at my doorstep
A storm’s blown in & trees sway & rattle, arbutus leaves flung through the air. To this forest has arrived the German Translation of Chorus of Mushrooms.
Read MoreCass Verlag acquires German rights to Chorus of Mushrooms
World German language rights to my first novel, Chorus of Mushrooms have been acquired by Cass Verlag. Publication slated for fall 2020! For folks who don’t know me, this was my first novel over 20 years ago when I was still in my twenties… I’ve had more books since then. Hopefully a few more under…
Read MoreReview of Rising Tides by Dorothy Woodend (The Tyee)
Event: Vancouver Launch of Rising Tides
The Last Time I Saw You
So honoured to be included in the Winter issue of Brick with so many amazing writers. My creative nonfiction essay, “The Last Time I Saw You” is about meeting kin on contested ground.
Read MoreA walk with T’uy’t’tanat-Cease Wyss & Mary Chen
Defying Genres
Defying Genres with Hiromi Goto, Room’s Short Forms Contest Judge An Interview with Room Magazine.
Read MoreTalks and reading at UBC Creative Writing Department
I had the honour of sharing writing talk at UBC in January. Those large lecture halls are such odd/unfamiliar spaces to make ideas, creativity, information coalesce… It was invigorating and the students were keen, bright, focussed. Here’s a link to the write-up in the UBC Creative Writing website: https://creativewriting.ubc.ca/2018/01/hiromi-goto-visits-ubc-creative-writing-department/ Thank you, Emily Pohl-Weary, Ian Williams, and…
Read MoreReading from Chorus of Mushrooms and Darkest Light
Listen to Hiromi read from A Chorus of Mushrooms and Darkest Light, and answer audience questions, at the 2017 Denman Island Readers and Writers Festival.
Read MoreNew story with Uncanny Magazine: “Notes from Liminal Spaces”
Well, new to publication, but it was first delivered as a keynote several years ago at 2015 Academic Conference of Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy. A spiral text that moves between story and critical discourse, nods to Tiptree’s, “The Women Men Don’t See”…. You can read it here. Also on the Uncanny site, Julia Rios…
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