Appearances

2010 ROWER'S PUB READING SERIES

Things are still up in the air for 2010 except for a May 3rd appearance at The Rower's Pub Reading Series. I've been invited to Lit Live in Hamilton but am not sure of the date. I'll also be going back to Polaris (aka Toronto Trek) as Kate Story and I had fun last year. I will try and keep the site updated about appearances and publications so check back often. I know I'm woefully behind on updating publications, below. It seems all I can do to post things on Facebook as they appear.

I'll be doing a Signing and two panels at Anticipation, the 67th World Science Fiction Convention in Montreal

August 6-10 2009

Fri 11:30 AM 30min P-Autographs Ursula Pflug Signing
Fri 3:30 PM P-511A Oh Canada! With Karl Schroeder, Nalo Hopkinson, Bob Boyczuk
Fri 6:00 PM Aurora Awards Ceremony
Sat 11:00 AM P-518A Fantasy = Realism? With Lancer Kind, Elaine M. Brennan, Bob Neilson

I'll be doing a Reading, Signing and Panels at Polaris 23

July 10-12 2009

This year's Polaris will be held at the Sheraton Parkway Toronto North Hotel. The hotel page includes more information on the hotel including this year's room rates. 600 Highway 7 East (at Highway 7 and Leslie St.) Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada L4B 1B2

Sunday May 17, 2009 4:20 pm Reading at Wholistic Day

"Writing Beween Worlds." Ursula Pflug & Krow Fischer in conversation will explore channeling, poetry, fiction and the process of flow. They will read from their books and discuss the role of authors, visionaries and the influence of the creative process on group consciousness. This promises to be a lively and enlightened discussion.

Alderville First Nations Community Centre
Sunday May 17, 2009 4:20 pm

Reading at the Marmora Dam

In celebration of Al Purdy Day I'll be reading at the Marmora Dam. With John Hamley, Marie Wilkins, Gail Taylor, Tai Grove, Richard Turtle, RD Roy, Chris Faiers and live music by Morley Ellis


Tuesday Apr 21st 2009 6:30 pm

Reading and Signing at Peterborough Library

I'll be reading from After the Fires and Kate Story will read from her debut novel Blasted. We'll both have books for sale and there will be time for Q and A.

Wed Apr 15 2009 7pm – 8:30pm Auditorium

Reading in Campbellford

I'll be reading from After the Fires and Peterborough author Kate Story will read from her debut novel Blasted.

December 18, 2008
Spirit Studio
30 km south of Campbellford on Highway 30,
Campbellford, On.
Doors open 7pm, reading at 7:30, signing at 8pm
liquid refreshments by donation

Peterborough Launch of After The Fires

October 9, 2008
Catalina Hair Salon and Boutique
131 Hunter Street, Peterborough, On.

Doors open 7pm, reading at 7:30, signing at 8pm
Free snacks, liquid refreshments by donation

Reading at Strong Words

September 1, 2008

Ursula Pflug (After the Fires) and Dayle Furlong (Open Slowly). Also featuring Michael Fraser

@ The Gladstone Art Bar
1214 Queen St W
Toronto, On.
7:30 PM - PWYC
Donations of new/used books in resale condition to be collected on behalf of the Toronto Public Library's Book Ends program.
Strong Words was launched in Toronto in 2005. It was the first event developed by Indiepolitik, a community organization dedicated to bridging the gap between artists and activists in Toronto.

Tightrope Books Spring Launch

Open Slowly, Poems by Dayle Furlong
Eating Fruit Out of Season, Poems by David Clink
After The Fires, Short Stories by Ursula Pflug


Thursday July 10, 2008 7:00 - 10:00 p.m.
The Trane Studio 964 Bathurst Street Toronto, On.

How to Get Published with Ursula Pflug

Sat, April 19, 4 pm, at Black Honey, Peterbrough, On.
How to Get Published with Ursula Pflug
Ursula Pflug's workshop will discuss market research, manuscript preparation, cover letters, and working with editors.
This workshop is part of Cooked and Eaten's Poetry Month. For more info see Cooked and Eaten's website.

Domestic Science

Thursday, April 10, 2008 - Sunday, April 27, 2008
PENTIMENTO Fine Art Gallery
1164 QUEEN STREET EAST at Jones
Toronto, ON

Showcasing works by multimedia artists Doug Back, Shelagh Young and performances by Bill James, Ryan Kerr and Kate Story.

The starting point for this multi-media extravaganza was The Wizard of Wardenclyffe, my short story about Nicola Tesla, published in the World Fantasy Award winning Leviathan anthology series and reprinted in After The Fires.

An earlier version of this project, entitled Electron, was presented at Emergency, the Peterborough based new dance series, at Market Hall on April 3rd, 4th and 5th.

The audience can look forward to mysterious technological surprises, including a scene in which James will don a copper Faraday jacket created by Shelagh Young, and scan ambient electrical spill (and possibly human EM fields) aided by sensors built by Doug Back and Shelagh Young.

Podcast

TothWorld #91
A great podcast of me reading "Fires" on Paul Toth's wonderful site. This story first appreared in "In the Dark: Stories from the Supernatural," published by Tightrope Books in 2006. It was reprinted in After the Fires. I also read "Python," first published in Infinity Plus and reprinted in Album Zutique.

Podcastle # 072
Christiana Ellis reads my short story, "The Exit Sign." First published in Chizine as "Skyrise," it was reprinted in After the Fires in its present form.

After The Fires Reviews

www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com
Saturday September 13, 2008
Award-winning writer pens After The Fires

Rewiew by Susan Dyment

The opening tale of Ursula Pflug's "After The Fires" occurs at a waterfront while mist and amnesia move in and out of the scene. A second selection of the book’s disturbing tales arrives in New Orleans, but there is no flood disaster here, only the dreamscape of feminine psychology (with animal morphism) ornate ironwork seen through gauze curtains, and a labyrinth of social necessities, shamanistic niceties and psychedelic ritual. “She wonders if she hasn’t missed the way, wishes briefly she’d talked to the condor after all.”

This is the place where the punk “scene” departed from the optimism of the hippy movement into the “real” world of soul searching and survival downtown. Here a feathered birdman may visit one of Pflug’s inner city apartments, an oozing Grandmotherly ghost may lurch forward to explain classism in poetics, or a crow may watch passively from a chair. Pflug swims gracefully into an alternate reality to bring back words with their nervous systems on the outside of their bodies. She deposits them before our horrified eyes and we emerge improved by the experience.

In Italian cinema, the Surrealist use of large, open places to evoke potential and freedom in the face of Fascism is a frequent motif. During Mussolini’s time, they often used the beaches and open places along Italy’s highways to create this feeling of space, a horizon towards which the dreamer runs.
While the world Pflug creates is tensioned with useful allusions to oppression as well as cauchemar horror, the counter-placement of people next to unexpected objects and within strange settings is beautiful, bizarre and bleeding in a bright red way more dignified than a lie.

www.danforthreview.com

October 2008
Review by Katelynn Schoop

Entirely divergent from both Crane and Tilley is Ursula Pflug’s collection of stories and (what could be called) prose poems, After the Fires. Pflug’s impressive control of language creates a manageable framework for the imaginative content of her stories in which reality is shifted slightly, turned on its axis...The highly visual and often abstract prose makes for an uneasy reading experience in which the narrative begins to interrogate the reader’s perception of reality...It’s often the case that writing that seems difficult or challenging on a formal level manages to best articulate the complexities of human life, and Pflug’s collection is no exception.

Recent Publications

The Things In The Box
A silver watch, a rainbow quilt, a Moroccan mirror — what do these items add up to when combined with a failing relationship? Ursula Pflug’s haunting “The Things in the Box” deals with love and loss.

http://www.irosf.com/
July 2008 New Weird Review
My review of The New Weird edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer is up at the Internet Review of Science Fiction site. Other reviews of mine at IROSF include Tim Powers's story collection Strange Itineraries, Kate Story's debut novel Blasted, and many more.