Jordan Abel wins the 2024 Governor General Award for Fiction

Huge congratulations to Jordan Abel, whose Empty Spaces (Penguin Random House, 2023) won the 2024 Governor General's Award for Fiction! 

Empty Spaces was excerpted in Odd Poems 2021, the first item published by null pointer press.

Pushcart Nominations 2024

This year I'm delighted to nominate the maximum number of pieces (six) for the Pushcarts: Clifton Gachagua, January, A Sequence; Connor Ferguson, "I Want a Paper Moon"; Monty Reid, Vertebrata (Thoracic); Ros Werner Winslow, we live with blurring eyes, drinking sweet brine of sweat, spit and song—; Charlie McIlwain, CANADIAN RAINS; and Lily Herman, The April Palace.

Congratulations to Clifton, Connor, Monty, Ros, Charlie, and Lily, and thank you to everyone who submitted their work to my little longer journal.

+doc.7

And now?

 

Who will pick you up?

 

Who will shake you?

 

What will you do

when you can’t be fixed anymore?

 

  - Monty Reid, from "Vertebrata (Thoracic)"

 

 

 

It's turning towards late summer — nearly August — and I'm pleased to announce that +doc.7 is now available. This is a much longer issue than usual: at 46 pages, longer than any issue except the first. And it also features the most poets, four, making it the biggest issue so far in that sense.

+doc.7 features new work by Ottawa poet Monty Reid, American poets Ros Werner Winslow and Lily Herman, and Northern Irish poet Charlie McIlwain. To purchase a copy, Paypal me or send an Interac E-transfer to jcd748@mail.usask.ca (Canada: $4, US and International $6, payable in CAD) and include your name and mailing address. Here's to the rest of the summer!

 

+doc.6

     

                & now that our lives have been reduced
                to dark rooms in galleries
                we will become the bad films they see.

                    - Clifton Gachagua, from "January: A Sequence"

+doc.6 is now available, containing new long poems by Clifton Gachagua and Connor Ferguson. These pieces are meditations on loneliness & yearning, expectation & routine - whether in Nairobi or the pandemic-restricted streets and rooms of Des Moines.

To purchase a copy, PayPal me or send an Interac E-transfer to jcd748@mail.usask.ca (Canada: $4, US and International $6, payable in CAD) and include your name and mailing address. Here's to company, to warmer days ahead.

+doc submissions closed for the year

I was blown away by the response to the submissions call - I received so much excellent work for consideration. Everyone has been notified, and the work for each issue is set. I'll start on +doc.7 in May, and +doc.8 later in the year.

Thank you to all who submitted. Submissions will open again next January.

Submissions for +doc.7, +doc.8 now open!

 Just a quick note as we enter 2024 that submissions for the next two issues of +doc (expected July 2024 and January 2025) are now open. No restrictions around length, content, and so forth, just an ask that it hews to some idea of "longer", whatever that means to you.

To submit, just send an email to me at jcd748@mail.usask.ca, with the poems attached. Don't worry about a proper cover letter, just say hi (or not!).

Pushcart nominations: 2023

 I just mailed off the nominations package last night, so I'm very pleased to announce that this year's nominees are:

- Jake Byrne, "No. 21 The World" (+doc.4)

- Jérôme Melançon, "On Seeing Oneself With Others" (+doc.4)

- Frances Boyle, "Winter's Death" (+doc.5)

- Sarah Peecher, "Emerging From a Silver Foil Cocoon After the Conflagration" (+doc.5)

Congratulations to all the poets!