Review Subcommittee Positions Now Available!

The Hart House Review is now accepting applications for its 2007-2008 Subcommittee. Interested candidates should compile their responses in a word document and email them to Ramya at harthousereview@gmail.com.

Responses should not exceed 500 words. Answer ONE of the following:

1. We're going to send you to a desert island for the rest of your miserable life, and you're allowed one book. Ha. And not only that, but unless you can entertain us with a cute explanation of WHY you chose that book, we'll poke your eyes out first (survival guides don't count). You have 500 words. Go.

OR,

2. The Hearsts, the Aspers, and the Murdochs come calling. There has been a coup d'etat and you have been anointed overlord of the world's publishing houses and newspaper chains. You have a bevy of writers at your command, both living and dead. Ernest Hemingway, Sylvia Plath, and Salman Rushdie are among the many just itching to write for you. What kind of book will you demand from them and why?

OR,

3. Describe, at not so unwieldy length, the least likely but most satisfying reaction you could have to a terrible/late/sublime submission for the HHR.

Do feel free to email us with any questions.

DEADLINE: OCTOBER 28th, 2007 at midnight

*Please circulate widely

Hart House Review Now Accepting Submissions!

HHR Logo Design Contest

The Hart House Review is looking for a unique iconic image that captures the Review’s identity as a literary journal which serves as a platform for emerging artists and writers. The winner will receive a prize and be credited on the Review’s masthead.

Email your designs to harthousereview@gmail.com.

The contest is open to everyone.

Deadline: January 03, 2008

First Coffee House & Open Mic of 2007-2008!

Wednesday, Sept. 12 from 6:00 - 8:00 in the Arbor Room
for Hart House's "Wide Open House"

For our debut coffee house/spoken word night, the Hart House Review will be at Wide Open House this Wednesday at Hart House. Join us in the Arbor Room Wednesday night for a beer, a coffee, an avocado sandwich--whatever--and performances by featured authors and open-mic signups. On display will be illuminated stills of new and old work by campus photographers.

Featured authors for this Wednesday:
Lauren Kirshner
Rebecca Rosenblum
Shannon Blake
Albert Gaudio
Eric Foley
Damir Maltaric
and Ryan MacIsaac

Each author will read for 10 minutes, after which all are welcome to the stage for 45 minutes of open-mic readings. Hope to see you there!

The 2007 Hart House Review Publishing Lineup

The 2007 Hart House Review is now available at the porter's desk in Hart House. Thanks to all who submitted!

Our 2007 publishing lineup:

From the Editors

Reza Baraheni - Interview

Poetry

Reza Baraheni - In the New Place, or Exile, a Simple Matter
Talia Zajac - A Marie Atoinette
Albert R. Gaudio - A Hypochondriac's Complaint
Daniel Shawn Otis - Kensington Afternoons
Mary Alice Elcock - Yukon Blaze
Ryan MacIsaac - Rural Nova Scotia
Shannon Blake - And Then They Took My Lute
Ted Witzel - [ ].
Shannon Blake - Another Reason We Don't Speak Anymore
Talia Zajac - Naausica
Damir Maltaric - October to December
Helene Goderis - A History of Snails
Yavanna Valdellon - Birds of a Feather
Jim F. Johnstone - Excerpts from Siamese Poems
(i) quarantine
(ii) lichtenberg figures
Helen Guri - My Life as a Crow
Eric Foley - All of These
Yavanna Valdellon - New Year Elegy
Alexandra Grigorescu - Cancer
James Marchment - Absolution
Alex Grigorescu - Bucharest
Eryn Hiscock - Mr. Goodbuy
Albert R. Gaudio - Applause

Fiction

Elizabeth Karp - The Vow
Jessica Taylor - Floating
Rebecca Rosenblum - All the Ghostlies
Micaela Maftei - Calle Agla

Drama

Adam Collier - Excerpt from "I Used to Love H.E.R."

Photography

Giulio Buttino - Flight of Fancy
Giulio Buttino - Hart House: Into the Light
Tasha Caswell - Untitled
Zach Slootsky - Push
Alexandra Tkatcheva - Massproduced Selfhelp
Falco Mueller-Fischler - Pan y Agua
Felix Kalmenson - Self-Reflection
Tasha Caswell - Untitled
Chris Wanless - Tarantella

Babel on a Page

Introduction

Marja: We asked six Toronto writers of diverse cultural backgrounds to write about "voice" and the creative writing process. In order to evoke the plurality of their voices, we have merged their answers into a dialogue that at once disconnects and integrates their voices- a kind of babel on a page.
Veronika: And so we asked ourselves: what is voice? What are voices? What happens when voices are merged on a page? Do they agree? Do they interrupt? Do they talk past one another? Or do they merge together in a kind of fluid incongruity, their sense only to be disentangled by the devoted reader?
Ramya: And as readers how do these voices resonate with us? What happens to the unvoiced voice? The act of reading is in many ways an act of imaginative appropriation, taking upon ourselves the construction of the self and other, silencing some voices while privileging others. The reader in this way joins the writer, the two forming a sort of symbiotic relationship, in an unbroken cycle of creation, interpretation, and transformation. (John Reibetanz, Priscilla Uppal, Rachel Zolf, Simon Ortiz, George Elliot Clarke, and Lee Maracle.)

I

REIBETANZ: “Appropriation” is altogether a good thing for writers:

UPPAL: We believe in pronunciation, adjudication, and/ all for the nation;

ZOLF: where many voices question and contradict one another, laying bare the ephemeral, relative nature of memory and truth,

CLARKE: or gripe and blab like a Protestant pope.

UPPAL: My brother and I can mimic a South-Asian accent/ when we say:

MARACLE: let the breath of others take their own journey through the body.

REIBETANZ: Here, for instance, is Salvador:

ZOLF: struggling with self-identity through the poetry

REIBETANZ: a refugee who has learned the value of conversation from his solitary confinement as a political prisoner in Chile: “He refuses to eat in silence/ even when alone / because, he says, it is”

CLARKE: a feinting langue haunted by each slave boat.

ORTIZ: As a Native American writer of the Acoma Pueblo community in New Mexico, I write

REIBETANZ: if one agrees with the philosopher Emmanuel Levinas that the self finds its primary definition:

CLARKE: a wanton lingo.

MARACLE: Insulted.

REIBETANZ: More distinctive through acts of imaginative sympathy:

ORTIZ: that is the power of my voice.

II

UPPAL: My poetry comes out of/ my father’s chest, tough and wholehearted,

ZOLF: questioning of the authority given to the particularly lyric

CLARKE: bitter grapes of Creole verse

ORTIZ: or other "colonial languages".

REIBETANZ: “It’s character assassination time”

UPPAL: just as I know that being Canadian

REIBETANZ: develops by looking outwards rather than inwards.

UPPAL: I know little Punjabi

ORTIZ: even if I am speaking and writing fluently in the English language.

REIBETANZ: Safe choice, that place / half underground

CLARKE: taunted and tainted by wine.

ORTIZ: A use of language in your own terms,

MARACLE: with conviction

REIBETANZ: deeper (through dramatic monologue)

UPPAL: far more Chicken a la King than curry.

ZOLF: The particular slipperiness of the polyvocal:

CLARKE: I gabble a garrote argot, guttural, by rote,

MARACLE: arias of painful transformation

UPPAL: and all-you-can-eat buffets;

REIBETANZ: the vast perspectives offered by this non-European otherness

MARACLE: that we can come to love:

ORTIZ: I insist on that.

Copyright © 2006 by Hart House Review

Call for Submissions

The Hart House Review, the University of Toronto's most prestigious literary journal, is now accepting original submissions of prose, poetry,artwork,and photography. In the past, the Review has published such writers as Rohinton Mistry, Camilla Gibb, and Lynn Crosbie, and we are always on the lookout for fresh, eclectic talent.This year's deadline will be January 23rd, 2007 at midnight. Submission forms are available at Hart House, or online at our website: http://www.harthouse.utoronto.ca/hh/page
.php?id=Get04

Submissions may be handed in to the Hart House Hall Porter's Desk. (Please note: simultaneous submissions are not accepted, nor do we accept anything via email. However, it is acceptable to send the same piece(s) to the literary/poetry contests as well as the Review.)For more information, please contact Veronika at harthousereview@gmail.com