Writing – Phoebe Ka-Ir Wang

Precipitations

November 5, 2017

If you could bottle up a storm, what would it look like? Would it be cloudy white, with swirls of purple? Or ink-black, with raw seams of lightning that would shock your hands if you touched the surface? This image is rather dire, but I welcome it because I depleted my stock of images last…

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What to Grab Onto: A Newcomer’s Guide to Toronto’s Literary Huddle

August 30, 2015

Last week at the Coach House Wayzgoose I met a couple of the first year U of T MA in Creative Writing students, reminding me of how, just 5 years ago, my classmates and I finished our graduate department orientation in the early sun-dazed week of September and headed to another kind of orientation in bpNichol Lane. Those first…

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Buttons, Introversion, Literary Communities, Networking, Toronto

You aren’t the only winner

June 7, 2015

A month ago, my poem “Regional Transit,” won Prism Magazine’s poetry contest, judged by Ken Babstock. Another poem I’d entered, “The Hydro Men” had been shortlisted. I felt all the things I should feel: wonder, disbelief, pride, shock. I felt something else, as well– a feeling of having beaten the odds. This spring, Canadian poet…

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Asian-Canadian, Canadian poetry, Canadian writing, Colin Fulton, Contests, Diversity, Ethnicity, Evelyn Lau, Prism Magazine, Prizes