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A Night Out in the Wonk with WONK (but feel free to bring another date).

The time to stop talking and to start doing  is finally upon us. Because we recognize this, WONK has been hard at work putting out WONK6, which features great work from a number of writers and illustrators. The theme was loosely based around children’s literature and our contributors blew away our expectations, turning us in directions we never, well, expected. In fact, W6 might be one of the most diverse issues yet, filled with poems by Lyle Weis and Annie Polushin, short fiction by Cindy Dextraze, a graphic novel excerpt from Gail Sidonie Sobat and (illustrated by) Spyder Yardley-Jones, and beautiful cover art from Teresa Sturby. Although themes can sometimes create boundaries, it seems as though none of our contributors noticed  and WONK6 has reaped the benefit. As usual, the new WONK is available (for free) in the Wetaskiwin Library, for free as an online subscription or, for a very small cost, mailed right to your door. To do either of the latter, simply click here.

Also in the spirit of “doing stuff”, and besides getting WONK6 out, we are working on a couple of other things. The first of these might seem rather predictable given that our last effort was called WONK6. You guessed it, our next big thing is… WONK7. But that’s not all; along with the release of W7, WONK is hosting  an evening of poetry with Glen Sorestad and Jenna Butler at Wetaskiwin’s (licensed) Pipestone Food Company. Since we aren’t completely accustomed to doing things, the idea of doing three things (and two at the same time!) is a little frightening. That said, we are going to do our something anyway and we think (based completely on gut feelings and the fact that Glen Sorestad and Jenna Butler are on board) that our something must be pretty cool.

We promise to get more information out soon regarding this event, but, for now, the basic details will have to suffice (thank goodness those same details are on a mighty fine poster). We hope to see you there!

UPDATE: Here’s the link for the official event on Facebook!

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WONK 2: don’t (not) believe the hype

"Untitled" by Michelle Hay (featured in WONK 2)

WONK 2 is out the door.

Issue 2 features contributions of Thomas TrofimukErica Marshallrob mclennanFrans EricksonRon Asp, Dixie Warren, Michelle Hay and Margot Soltice.

For the fonts we went with Gentium Book Basic for the text because it’s beautiful. We tried to get around that and almost went with Sovereign but couldn’t justify the $300 versus free. We did take advantage of a good deal and selected FF Dagny Thin for the headlines. It felt Scandinavian. It felt right.

You can pick up copies of WONK throughout Wetaskiwin — Pipestone Food Company and the Wetaskiwin Public Library and, if you’re in Camrose (heaven forbid), stop by Merchants Tea & Coffee House.

Or, if you’re lazy and have $13 burning a hole in your pocket, you can get them delivered personally by Canada Post here. Even better, if you’re lazy and don’t have $13 (burning or not), you can get WONK for free to your inbox here. Actually, it’s the same link for both heres, but there are two options on the page.

Electronic copies haven’t been sent out yet. We’re experimenting with the formating a little bit to make them more readable and printable in the end (the WONKs we print are on 12 x 18 paper folded in half; the e-versions will be optimized for letter sized paper).

Some people want to know what we want to feature next month. The best answer so far has something to do with beggar not being choosers. If it’s good, we’ll run it. Unless it’s too good. Then you should probably send it somewhere else.

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