The latest edition of the creative and critical journal, HARTS & Minds, has been published, and Tyler has a new piece in it, entitled 'Defamiliarized'. The journal, edited by Maria Lopez and Imogene Newland, has a different theme for every issue; this time around the focus is 'Haptics and the Senses'. The editorial sums it up nicely: 'This collection of articles, creative pieces, and reviews reflects on the sense of 'touch', 'hearing', and 'vision', as well as the less commonly recognized senses of 'pain' and 'kinesis'. In each of the following contributions, these senses are mapped as traces of stimuli that mark themselves upon the brain and nervous system in order to relate important information to us about ourselves and our surroundings.' Sound intriguing? Tyler's contribution explores notions of sight and blindness, both on a literal and symbolic level. It's available to read in its entirety here. It also features (somewhat typically, for Tyler) beer and mountains and snowboarding. Enjoy the ride!
Short story author and critic Tamsin Hopkins kindly asked Tyler to do an interview about setting and place in the short form, with a particular emphasis on his collection, Burrard Inlet. Her piece was recently published on The Short Story website. It is part article, part interview, and includes her own insightful musings on the importance of place, and how to evoke it, followed by the Q&A with Tyler (who manages to sound semi-lucid, for a change). It is available to read in its entirety here, and the other articles and resources on the site are well worth exploring, too. Tamsin's own collection, Shore to Shore, has recently been released by Cinnamon Press.
The latest issue of Black Static has come out in the post-Christmas lull, and it features the work of Ray Cluley, Georgina Bruce, VH Leslie, Tim Casson, Gary Budden, and also Tyler - who's dredged the dark depths of his brain once again to produce a disturbing story about (let's just check our press release here): parenthood, paranoia, nationalism, and... Scottish witches? Well, it's good to see Tyler expanding his range. We on his publicity team haven't actually read the story yet but we trust the editors at Black Static, so we can assume Tyler didn't drop the ball on this one (unlike that other story he was working on, about the purple elephant, and the magic dagger - which was way off base). So if you're sick of Christmas cheer, and want to feel a little fear in your bones, why not support Black Static by picking up a copy?
