Femme Fest
Sexualized Violence in Art Panel Discussion
Saturday, March 7 at 2 PM + Sunday, March 8 at 4 PM
Next Door Market & Event Space Inc.
955a Gladstone Avenue, Ottawa
International Film Festival of Ottawa
The Gaze: A Useful Ghost
Friday, March 13 at 6:00 PM
Ottawa Art Gallery
For this year’s IFFO program, Tish invites filmmaker Carol Nguyen to discuss the featured film A Useful Ghost and how ghosts prompt us to question mortality and morality. The ghost of Nat possesses a vacuum to be with her husband again, but can they really pick up where they left off? Other ghosts linger, possessing objects and haunting dreams, because they believe their lives were cut short. Can ghosts find justice?
Whether they are haunting us, scaring us, or warning us, ghosts in film have so much more to say than Boo!
Other films at IFFO curated by Tish: Little Trouble Girls; Erupcja; Montréal, Ma Belle; Where The Wind Comes From; Love Letters; I Lost Sight of the Landscape. See entire schedule at IFFO.ca. And see you at the Friday night Film Clubs!
Debut Short Story Collection
Ebony, Blood, and Snow
Inspired by familiar fairy tales, author Tish Black’s debut short story collection takes the tales in new directions and rewrites history: Little Red hunts wolves, Gretel helps the witch, and Bluebeard’s wife gets revenge.
These transgressive stories challenge readers’ ideas of what the tales could mean to them. There’s more to learn from fairy tale heroines than how to be eaten, rescued, or married. These unconventional heroines fight the patriarchy with no time for romance; instead, readers will find tales of revenge, sisterhood, political revolt, and independence.
Conveying the radical feminism of Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber and the defiance of Emma Donoghue’s Kissing the Witch, Black’s collection of thirteen tales redefines the fairy tale heroine.
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Editing Services
I am excited to help writers of short fiction finish their short stories, medium stories, novelettes, and novellas. I believe the short story as a storytelling format is underappreciated. Especially in speculative fiction (fantasy, horror, sci-fi), short stories are some of the most memorable and definitive of the genre.
I would love to read your weird and wonderful short fiction and polish it up with a copyedit so you feel confident submitting it to a publication or publishing it yourself.
Book merch
Decorate your home with posters inspired by my debut book, Ebony, Blood, and Snow. Run errands with witchy tote bags. Write fairy tales in a notebook made just for writing women’s wrongs. Support an indie author by purchasing their merch!