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"Polish Moms" published in "The Literarian"

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 10:28:20 -0400

"Polish Moms" published in "The Literarian":

I’m excited to announce that my series of vignettes entitled “Polish Moms” was recently published in The New York Center for Fiction’s literary magazine “The Literarian”. Thanks to Dawn Raffel for her editorial work and support.

Here’s an excerpt:

Generation V

“Your nails are yellow,” the mother says to her daughter.

“Green nail polish,” the daughter responds.

“No, I know what it’s from, you’ve been smoking.”

poetry425awya: Lizy Mostowski reading Wisława Szymborska’s...

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 12:00:39 -0500

poetry425awya:

Lizy Mostowski reading Wisława Szymborska’s “Słowka” (published in 1962 in her poetry collection Salt) and the English translation entitled “Vocabulary” (published in 1995 in a collection of selected poems called view with a grain of sand).

Reading at the Dragnet Mag Launch Party at The Ossington in...

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 01:06:00 -0500

Reading at the Dragnet Mag Launch Party at The Ossington in Toronto on January 24th, 2013.

Mostowski, Lizy. “They’re, There, Their.” Dragnet Magazine, Issue 7. Online. Pages 17-20.

Check out my article Feel Like At Home on thebarnstormer.com

Mon, 21 Jan 2013 11:15:23 -0500

Check out my article Feel Like At Home on thebarnstormer.com

I’m doing a reading in Toronto on the 24th at the Dragnet...

Fri, 11 Jan 2013 16:14:00 -0500

I’m doing a reading in Toronto on the 24th at the Dragnet Issue Seven Launch party! Come hangout Toronto friends!

"Maybeee howz zabout you stop thinking bout ‘what you get’ from the poem & start thinkin’ bout..."

Fri, 21 Dec 2012 18:38:57 -0500

“Maybeee howz zabout
you stop thinking
bout ‘what you get’ from the poem
& start thinkin’
bout ‘what you give’ to the poem.”

- Alessandro Porco (via poetry425awya)

hipster-animals: independent bookstore reshelver

Sun, 11 Nov 2012 23:38:57 -0500

hipster-animals:

independent bookstore reshelver

New article up on French Culture Guide: The Suspension of...

Sun, 28 Oct 2012 13:02:38 -0400

New article up on French Culture Guide: The Suspension of Disbelief: How to Avoid “Paris Syndrome” !

I’m back from Europe. I’ve been back for two weeks,...

Fri, 14 Sep 2012 18:54:56 -0400

I’m back from Europe. I’ve been back for two weeks, still jet lagged. I miss Paris so much I’ve started to write for French Culture Guide, an online publication out of New York. Read my first article Parisian Tourist Tips (the Basics), if you’re interested!

Follow my blog this summer!

Thu, 31 May 2012 15:07:37 -0400

Follow my blog this summer!:

This summer, I’ll be in Europe. I’ve been there before. I believe that every time I’d been there before, I’d been too young to understand my surroundings. I’ve been to Paris and Madrid on a school trip (that time I ran around with my girlfriends drinking wine and smoking skinny cigarettes), back home to Poland with my parents (that time I had to explain to my Polish aunt what being “vegetarian” meant), around Italy with my parents (that time we ate gelato and my cousins and I all bought matching pairs of shoes), and finally, this year, I am going on my own (the time I remember more than an anecdote about my trip).

I’ll be writing here about pastries, alcohol, museums, and people. I’ll be posting photos, too. I’m doing this so that when I come back, and people ask about the trip, hopefully, I won’t forget anything or try to sum it up into one metaphor or image.

Some kind words about my short story Roleplay: A disarming...

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 23:18:06 -0400

Some kind words about my short story Roleplay:

A disarming exploration of Russian history, casual sex and sudden closeness.

What astonished us when we first read “Roleplay” was the tension between a persistent sense of anxiety and a very delicate sweetness. The ambiguity of the characters’ relationship, the drabness of the settings, bedbug paranoia, and the monotony of everyday responsibilities evoke an alienating image of life in Montreal as a young adult. Yet this sense of isolation is carefully bridged in the vulnerability of the characters’ conversations.

The narrator, critical and pessimistic, and her lover, embarrassingly self-confident, are at odds throughout the piece. Despite this conflict, the author brings them together in unexpected moments of intimacy: the narrator mistaking roleplaying for lovemaking, the lover curled on her bed like a cat, the moment when he confesses to her that he is Chekov. As the lover slowly convinces the narrator of the realness of his personas, she surrenders her aloofness, abandoning her attachment to the cultural symbols that she uses to define him, and freeing herself in the process. Mostowski’s voice is situated firmly in the present and evokes the bleak humour of Joy Williams. “Roleplay” is funny and poignant, suggesting that human contact is still possible, even in the most unexpected places.

See the original post.

What I’ve been trying to tell people for years. How sad is...

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 22:22:13 -0400

What I’ve been trying to tell people for years. How sad is this statistic? Tupac is a legend. Bieber is a baby with a cute face.

stayclassymtl:

Stay Classy Music

thewritingsonthefridge: Lizy Mostowski studies Creative Writing...

Sun, 11 Mar 2012 22:23:41 -0400

thewritingsonthefridge:

Lizy Mostowski studies Creative Writing at Concordia University in Montreal, where she is Editor-in-Chief of Soliloquies Anthology. She occasionally writes for The Link Newspaper and formerly curated Synapse Reading Series. This year, she was longlisted for the Montreal International Poetry Prize. Her short story, Roleplay, was recently published by Ribbon Pig.

Read an interview with her and follow her on twitter.

thewritingsonthefridge: Lizy Mostowski studies Creative Writing...

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:39:21 -0500

thewritingsonthefridge:

Lizy Mostowski studies Creative Writing at Concordia University in Montreal, where she is Editor-in-Chief of Soliloquies Anthology. She occasionally writes for The Link Newspaper and formerly curated Synapse Reading Series. This year, she was longlisted for the Montreal International Poetry Prize. Her short story, Roleplay, was recently published by Ribbon Pig.

Read an interview with her and follow her on twitter.

Lizy just came over to work on some PROSE for the fridge. It will be the most ambitious post yet. Over 420 frames!!! COMING SOON!

thewritingsonthefridge: Lizy Mostowski studies Creative Writing...

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 00:58:26 -0500

thewritingsonthefridge:

Lizy Mostowski studies Creative Writing at Concordia University in Montreal, where she is Editor-in-Chief of Soliloquies Anthology. She occasionally writes for The Link Newspaper and formerly curated Synapse Reading Series. This year, she was longlisted for the Montreal International Poetry Prize. Her short story, Roleplay, was recently published by Ribbon Pig.

Read an interview with her and follow her on twitter.

Thurston Dunst.

Sun, 08 Jan 2012 20:20:47 -0500

Thurston Dunst.

Happy new year!!

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 14:36:21 -0500

Happy new year!!

you can buy my short story, roleplay, online!

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 19:35:38 -0500

you can buy my short story, roleplay, online!:

“I itched, following the bugs crawling up my neck, like pins and needles, through my hair, to the crown of my head. I wondered if there were any bed bugs at the Motel 6.”

Lizy Mostowski co-curates the (excellent) reading series Synapse and is the editor-in-chief of Soliloquies Anthology. Her story, “Roleplay”, is funny but doesn’t feel far-fetched. Her narrative voice allows her to both feel and be felt vulnerable.

home for the holidays

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 21:12:57 -0500

home for the holidays

“partly because of my love for you, partly because of your...

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 13:17:36 -0500

“partly because of my love for you, partly because of your love for yogurt”- Frank O’Hara, inspiring me