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“Reunion,” a short story by Eddie Willett, age 19

By Edward Willett in Blog, Writing and Editing
March 1, 2014
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As promised in the previous post, here’s my short story from the Spring 1979 issue of Shapes and Names, the literary magazine of Harding College (now Harding University). The cover art at left was created by Jerry Palmer. My short story, at over 8,000 words, was by far the longest piece, and reading it now, …

I wonder what my college professor would think of me now?

By Edward Willett in Blog, Writing and Editing
March 1, 2014
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The next post after this one is going to be a very early short story of mine that I just uncovered. Called “Reunion,” it was published in the Spring, 1979, issue (Volume 2, Number 2) of Shapes and Names, the literary magazine published by the department of English of Harding College (now Harding University) in …

An interview with me in honor of my story in Tesseracts 17

By Edward Willett in Blog, Books, Writing and Editing
November 24, 2013
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Colleen Anderson, editor with Steve Vernon of Tesseracts Seventeen: Speculating Canada from Coast to Coast to Coast (EDGE), the latest installment of the long-running Canadian anthology series, has been posting a series of interviews with the authors whose works are included in the book, and this week it’s my turn, in honor of my story …

Cover art for Tesseracts Seventeen: Speculating Canada from Coast to Coast

By Edward Willett in Blog, Books
July 14, 2013
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Here’s the gorgeous cover art for Tesseracts Seventeen, the venerable Canadian speculative fiction anthology which this year contains my short story “The Path of Souls,” inspired by Globe Theatre’s Lanterns on the Lake events of a few years ago. Tesseracts Seventeen, edited by Colleen Anderson and Steve Vernon, has as its subtitle Speculating Canada from …

My short story will be in Tesseracts 17!

By Edward Willett in Blog, Writing and Editing
June 12, 2013
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Tesseracts is the long-running anthology of Canadian speculative fiction published for the past few years by Calgary’s Edge Publications. I’ve never sold a short story to it…until now. (This may have something to do with the fact I’ve never submitted to it before. Funny how that works.) Tesseracts 17: Speculating Canada from Coast to Coast …

Nice review of “A Little Space Music”

By Edward Willett in Blog
July 15, 2012
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Speculating Canada, a relatively new blog focusing on Canadian science fiction, fantasy and horror, has a nice review of “A Little Space Music,” my humorous “amateur theatre in outer space” short story just published in OnSpec. It begins: In “A Little Space Music”, Edward Willett demonstrates his creative wit and humour. He plays on an …

The Fifth Princess by Alice Willett

By Edward Willett in Blog
May 13, 2012
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This is the short story my 10-year-old daughter Alice (that’s her in the picture–she’s the one on the right) entered in the Canadian Children’s Book Centre’s Book Week 2012 Writing Contest for Kids & Teens. She didn’t win or get an honorable mention, but I still think it’s pretty good. (It’s also possible she was …

Saturday Special from the Vaults: The Shepherd

By Edward Willett in Blog, The Vaults
April 14, 2012
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This is another really early story; in fact, I’d completely forgotten about it until I found the file on my hard drive. I must have written it when I was 21 or 22. I was pleasantly surprised it holds up as well as it does. It was never published, though I think I submitted it …

Saturday Special from the Vaults: The Minstrel

By Edward Willett in Blog, The Vaults
March 10, 2012
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This week, another early story of mine. This is one of the earliest stories I sold, to a long-defunct Canadian children’s magazine called JAM. In fact, it was the cover story, and if I ever figure out where I put the magazine I’ll post the cover art here. It’s of roughly the same era as …

Saturday Special from the Vaults: Follow a Song

By Edward Willett in Blog, The Vaults
March 3, 2012
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Last Saturday I posted the opening to the first novel I wrote, when I was 14 years old. This week we jump ahead four or five years to when I was attending Harding University in Searcy, Arkansas (that’s a photo of the library). This story, “Follow a Song,” was a winner in the school’s annual …

Saturday Special from the Vaults: Janitor Work

By Edward Willett in Blog, The Vaults
February 12, 2012
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This was one of the first, if not the very first, science fiction short stories I ever sold. It appeared in the 1984 Canadian Children’s Annual, the year I turned 25. The photo of the lunar surface is from Apollo 17. Darryl Norton looked glumly at the dust-covered object before him. It seemed to him …

Saturday Special from the Vaults: Sins of the Father

By Edward Willett in Blog, The Vaults
January 28, 2012
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OK, this is an interesting one. As I have often recounted, Marseguro, which won the 2009 Aurora Award for best Canadian science fiction novel in English, began with a single opening line penned as a morning exercise in the Writing With Style program at the Banff Centre, in a science fiction-writing class taught by Robert …