A Dose of No-Nonsense is a regular sampling from the No-Nonsense Guides published by Between The Lines. Courtesy of Paula Brill from BTL.

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EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing have put out a call for submission for the Tesseracts Thirteen anthology. Each year, EDGE chooses a team of editors to choose "innovative and futuristic short fiction and poetry from the leaders and emerging voices in Canadian speculative fiction." This year's editors are award-winning authors Nancy Kilpatrick and David Morrell. Writing by some of Canada's most celebrated authors have appeared in the Tesseracts series, including work by Robert J. Sawyer, Élisabeth Vonarburg and Margaret Atwood. Tesseracts Twelve will be in bookstores in October 2008, just before Halloween.

Submissions for Tesseracts Thirteen are due October 31st. For submission guidelines, keep reading:

From The Writers' Trust of Canada:

The Writers’ Trust of Canada is now accepting applications for the position of writer-in-residence at the Berton House Writers’ Retreat in Dawson City, Yukon.

There are four positions available between July 1, 2009 and June 30, 2010. Each position is for a three-month period.

The residency provides a unique opportunity for Canadian writers to devote a significant time to their writing and to advancing their writing careers. A monthly honorarium is provided and housing and transportation costs are covered. Writers are required to perform a public reading in Dawson City and Whitehorse and are encouraged to interact with the local community.