Jeremy Hanson-Finger, a recent graduate of both the English BA and MA programs, has received a book contract from Montreal-based independent press 8th House. The contract is for his collection of short stories titled Nice People Who Care About Each Other Having a Good Time. (more)

Canadian Magazines Blog (Magazines Canada):

Dragnet Magazine likes to do things its own way: one of the latest online-only lit magazines to pop up in Canada—Dragnet is on Issue 3—this printless magazine not only had its own spot at Word On The Street this weekend (Word On The Web?), but edits together catchy cinematic trailers for each of its issues.

There isn’t much precedent for this that I know of, but in the world of Facebook and Twitter promotion, making a little video teaser for your quarterly’s newest issue is a pretty interesting idea. Why not make use of all of the internet’s dynamic media possibilities?

Check it out here; part of their Mighty Small Mags series.

I perused their website and discovered that like TNQ, Dragnet obviously has a sense of fun (from their press release: “Dragnet is young, beautiful, flexible, and pushes boundaries. Sort of like Natalie Portman in Black Swan, but Dragnet doesn’t need a dirty old man to tell it to go home and masturbate for homework.”).