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RUSTY TALK:
KATHRYN MOCKLER
INTERVIEWS
HEATHER BIRRELL

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Heather Birrell
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Kathryn Mockler: What is your first memory of writing creatively?
Heather Birrell: I don’t know that I have a first memory of writing creatively although I certainly have some evidence of it. My grade one teacher put together a mimeographed anthology of stories based on Rudyard Kipling’s Just So stories—and I think mine was about why/how the camel got his hump. And I still have the book I was sent as a prize for being a runner-up in an OWL magazine story contest when I was ten. I do remember making up a lot of stories with my sister—I think an inordinate number of them were spin-offs from Annie, The Musical. We were obsessed with that movie and played the soundtrack incessantly.  Then I also have diaries full of teen angsty poetry. It’s amazing how many times a person can use the word depressed in one sentence.
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RUSTY TALK
INTERVIEWS
HEATHER BIRRELL
MICHAEL VASS
RICHARD MELO
BRIAN JOSEPH DAVIS
MINA SHUM
ELISABETH HARVOR
DAVID GROULX
SHARON MCCARTNEY
RENUKA JEYAPALAN
DAVID HICKEY
VANESSA PLACE
SHELIA HETI
DAVID WHITTON
MARIA MEINDL
MONTY REID
LAURIE GOUGH
BONNIE BOWMAN
CHRISTIAN BÖK
MICHAEL TURNER
KAREN SCHINDLER
ZACHARIAH WELLS
JENNIFER L. KNOX
VIVIENO CALDINELLI
MADELEINE THIEN
KEVIN CHONG

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ISSUE 2
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ISSUE 2 ART
ROBYN CUMMING
, JASON MCLEAN


ISSUE 2 FICTION
BONNIE BOWMAN, RICHARD FULCO, LEE HENDERSON, INGRID KEENAN,  DEEPA SHANKARAN, ANDREW SULLIVAN

ISSUE 2 POETRY
JOE BARONE, HELEN HAJNOCZKY,  JULIUS KALAMARZ, RICHARD KOSTELANETZ, CHRISTINE NEGUS, GILLIAN SZE, CHRISTINE WALDE
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