River Street Writing
Oliver Bell and the Infinite Multiverse
24 May, 2025 Filed in: Reviews
Steven’s review of Oliver Bell and the Infinite Multiverse by Jake Swan (Galleon Books, 2025) is on the River Street blog.
A Workshop Junkie Comes Clean
06 March, 2025 Filed in: Essay
Steven's essay, A Workshop Junkie Comes Clean, is the final instalment of his tenure as Reviewer in Residence for River Street Writing and appears on their blog.
RuFF
06 February, 2025 Filed in: Reviews
Steven’s final review as Reviewer in Residence for the River Street Writing blog is of RuFF by Rod Carley.
I Think We've Been Here Before
06 January, 2025 Filed in: Reviews
Steve’s review of I Think We’ve Been Here Before (Radiant Press, 2024) by Suzy Krause on the River Street Writing blog.
A Simple Carpenter
02 December, 2024 Filed in: Reviews
Steven’s review of A Simple Carpenter (Radiant Press, 2024) by Dave Margoshes is on the River Street Writing blog.
Yellow Barks Spider
09 November, 2024 Filed in: Reviews
Steven reviewed Yellow Barks Spider by Harman Burns (Radiant Press, 2024) on the River Street Writing blog.
Reviewer-in-Residence
Steven is now Reviewer-in-Residence for River Street Writing.
Let RSW founder, publicist and award-winning writer Hollay Ghadery tell you the rest:
"As part of our mission to celebrate amazing books from small presses in Canada and champion a variety of approaches to and perspectives on literary criticism, we’re delighted to announce we’re kicking-off a Reviewer-in-Residence (RIR) program. Each RIR term will last six months and come with a honorarium.
Our inaugural RIR is the wonderful Steven Mayoff. Not only is Steven a small press CanLit author, but he is a champion of small press titles, and has been championing books with us since the very beginning.
For Steven’s first review, he looks at Realia (poetry) by three-time Saskatchewan Book Award winner Michael Trussler. Realia was published earlier this year by Saskatchewan’s spectacular little press on the prairie, Radiant Press."
From Steven's review: “The reality of poetry is its ability to speak to a part of ourselves that is asleep much of the time. When that part awakens, what is real and what is metaphor can seem indistinguishable. A sense of unreality enters our belief systems, altering how we see the world. The poetic world of Realia by Michael Trussler (Radiant Press, 2024) takes nothing for granted.“
Click here to read the full review.
For more info on River Street Writing's RIR program, feel free to send them a message through the contact form on their website.
Let RSW founder, publicist and award-winning writer Hollay Ghadery tell you the rest:
"As part of our mission to celebrate amazing books from small presses in Canada and champion a variety of approaches to and perspectives on literary criticism, we’re delighted to announce we’re kicking-off a Reviewer-in-Residence (RIR) program. Each RIR term will last six months and come with a honorarium.
Our inaugural RIR is the wonderful Steven Mayoff. Not only is Steven a small press CanLit author, but he is a champion of small press titles, and has been championing books with us since the very beginning.
For Steven’s first review, he looks at Realia (poetry) by three-time Saskatchewan Book Award winner Michael Trussler. Realia was published earlier this year by Saskatchewan’s spectacular little press on the prairie, Radiant Press."
From Steven's review: “The reality of poetry is its ability to speak to a part of ourselves that is asleep much of the time. When that part awakens, what is real and what is metaphor can seem indistinguishable. A sense of unreality enters our belief systems, altering how we see the world. The poetic world of Realia by Michael Trussler (Radiant Press, 2024) takes nothing for granted.“
Click here to read the full review.
For more info on River Street Writing's RIR program, feel free to send them a message through the contact form on their website.
Widow Fantasies Review
22 September, 2024 Filed in: Reviews