June 2023 Reviewers-in-Residence: The Ampersand Review’s Shaylyn Schwieg and Becca Lawlor

June 2023 Reviewers-in-Residence: The Ampersand Review’s Shaylyn Schwieg and Becca Lawlor

Introducing our June 2023 Reviewers-in-Residence: June 2023 is a special month here at USEREVIEW, as we’re partnering with The Ampersand Review to bring you some exciting crossover content! Every Wednesday, CAROUSEL will be featuring reviews by Ampersand interns Shaylyn Schwieg and Becca Lawlor. Meanwhile, Ampersand’s June issue will feature a rare full-length external review by CAROUSEL Reviews Editor Jade Wallace, who normally only reviews for CAROUSEL. Without further ado, we introduce this month’s reviewers …

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May 2023 Reviewer-in-Residence: Leah Bobet

May 2023 Reviewer-in-Residence: Leah Bobet

Introducing our May 2023 Reviewer-in-Residence: Novelist, editor and critic Leah Bobet’s novels have won the Sunburst, Copper Cylinder and Aurora Awards, been selected for the Ontario Library Association’s Best Bets program and been shortlisted for the Cybils and the Andre Norton Award. Her short fiction has appeared in multiple Year’s Best anthologies and has been taught in high school and university classrooms in Canada, Australia and the US; her poetry has been multiply shortlisted for

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CAROUSEL Recommends: More books from 2022 to check out!

CAROUSEL Recommends: More books from 2022 to check out!

To our infinite dismay, we at USEREVIEW cannot possibly review all of the wonderful books that come out in any given year — but we can do our best to give a little extra attention to books written by our much-appreciated former, current and forthcoming CAROUSEL contributors! As 2022 ends, join us as we look back on some of the amazing books published by CAROUSEL contributors this year … #USEREVIEWEDNESDAY CHAPBOOKS NOVELS & NOVELLAS POETRY

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Justin Stephenson’s Titles for Crimes of the Future

Justin Stephenson’s Titles for Crimes of the Future

In lieu of our regular weekly USEREVIEW posts, we at CAROUSEL will be using each Wednesday in December to highlight just a few of the many exciting artistic projects that former contributors have been at work on outside of the pages of our magazine. Up now: Justin Stephenson’s film titles for David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future (2022). Past CAROUSEL contributor Justin Stephenson is an award-winning filmmaker and moving image designer. He has directed, animated

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Anders Nilsen Interprets John Wyndham!

Anders Nilsen Interprets John Wyndham!

In lieu of our regular weekly USEREVIEW posts, we at CAROUSEL will be using each Wednesday in December to highlight just a few of the many exciting artistic projects that former contributors have been at work on outside of the pages of our magazine. Up now: Anders Nilsen’s covers for new reissues of classic John Wyndham books! Past CAROUSEL contributor Anders Nilsen is the Los Angeles-based artist & author of ten books including Big Questions, The

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Hey Witch

Hey Witch

In lieu of our regular weekly USEREVIEW posts, we at CAROUSEL will be using each Wednesday in December to highlight just a few of the many exciting artistic projects that former contributors have been at work on outside of the pages of our magazine. Up first: Hey Witch! Pottery & Art by Jessica Bromley Bartram. CAROUSEL contributor Jessica Bromley Bartram is an illustrator, graphic designer and artist based in Ottawa, Ontario. We’ve featured her work

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CAROUSEL 47 out now!

CAROUSEL 47 out now!

The spring 2022 issue of CAROUSEL is available to read for free at our website now! Spring 2022; released exclusively online Cover artwork + Design by Origin Obscure Featured Artist — Blaise Moritz Fiction — Catherine Austen— Hana Mason— Tusa Shea— T.L. Tomljanovic Poetry — Jeff William Acosta— Faiz Ahmad— Susie Berg— Anna Binkovitz— Domenico Capilongo— Jen Currin— Loisa Fenichell— John Focht— Hollay Ghadery— Robin Gow— Jessie Jones— Daniel Maluka— Emory Rose Conversations — Elee

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CAROUSEL 45 out now!

CAROUSEL 45 out now!

The summer 2021 issue of CAROUSEL is available to read for free at our website now! Summer 2021; released exclusively online Cover artwork by Amy Friend Design by Origin Obscure Art Portolio — Amy Friend Fiction — Shaelin Bishop— Dawn Lo— Thaddeus Rutkowski— Isabelle Teo Poetry — Courtney Bates-Hardy— Gregory Betts— Kate Cayley— Natasha Kessler + Adam Day— Annick MacAskill— Jessi MacEachern— Mickey Mahan— Carol Harvey Steski— Bronwen Tate— Carl Watts— Yvonne CHAIN Response Poetry

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CAROUSEL 36 Toronto Launch

CAROUSEL 36 Toronto Launch

CAROUSEL 36 Toronto launch — a free event took place on Wed May 25, 2016 at the Belljar Cafe … doors at 7pm, readings beginning at 7:30pm Featured Readers for the evening were: Chad Campbell, Paul Dutton, Laura C. Furster, Steve Meagher, Conor Mc Donnell, Antranik Tchalekian ————————–——— Facebook event @  https://www.facebook.com/events/455790244631554/

ON NEWSSTANDS NOW: CAROUSEL 36

ON NEWSSTANDS NOW: CAROUSEL 36

CAROUSEL 36 is here — video preview the new issue now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVH8Jh4000 CAROUSEL is pleased to announce its latest 88 page issue — featuring art, fiction, poems, and hybrid works by Leesa Bringas, Vincent Colistro, Candace de Taeye, Laura Furster, Richard Kelly Kemick, Steve McCaffery, conormcdonnell and Antranick Tchalekian, along with the following feature articles: Mark Laliberte profiles the work of experimental poet gustave morin, interviewing the author about his latest New Star Books release

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CAROUSEL Summer Party / Issue 35 Toronto Launch (Aug 05)

  Please join us for the CAROUSEL Summer Party & Toronto launch of CAROUSEL 35 —a free event taking place on Wed Aug 05, 2015 at the Belljar Cafe … doors at 7pm, readings begin at 7:30pm SPECIAL EVENT OFFER — support our fine journal at our launch by picking up the latest issue: for only $11, take #35 home and we’ll also mail you #36 when it comes out in Dec … or go

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Preview of CAROUSEL 35

Preview of CAROUSEL 35

The next issue of CAROUSEL (featuring a cover image by photographer Klaus Pichler) will be in stores June, 2015. An 80 page bi-annual hybrid literary/arts magazine representing new and established Canadian artists (with a selection of international contributors), CAROUSEL highlights a comfortable merging of textual and visual content, presenting work across many genres … if it is original and engaging, we aim to see it in print. C35, our forthcoming issue, features new poetry, fiction

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‘Like’ the new 4PANEL Facebook Page

‘Like’ the new 4PANEL Facebook Page

CAROUSEL fans: want more frequent 4PANEL news? We’ve got so much going on we’ve started our own 4P F/B page, it’s the best place to get the extended mix on 4PANEL contributors and all their wonderful projects — please take a tiny moment to LIKE this new page now https://www.facebook.com/4panelproject    

TCAF 365 @ Toronto Reference Library

TCAF 365 @ Toronto Reference Library

While TCAF only happens for a week each year, comics culture remains alive and well at the Toronto Reference Library all year round … … did you know that Page & Panel: The TCAF Shop is a recent, permanent on-site addition to the ground floor of the library? This well-curated retail environment presents the very best of comics, graphic novels, art, design objects and book culture merchandise to Toronto. They even carry a handful of

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2015 Toronto Comic Arts Festival

2015 Toronto Comic Arts Festival

The 2015 Toronto Comic Arts Festival at the Toronto Reference Library (789 Yonge St) Saturday May 9th 2015, 9am-5pm Sunday May 10th 2015, 11am-5pm FREE ADMISSION A week long celebration of comics and graphic novels and their creators, which culminates in a two-day exhibition and vendor fair featuring hundreds of comics creators from around the world. Other Festival events include readings, interviews, panels, workshops, gallery shows, art installations, and much more. Highly recommended! >>> More

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CAROUSEL available at Art Metropole

CAROUSEL available at Art Metropole

Looking for a good place to pick up copies of CAROUSEL in Toronto? We recommend Art Metropole (1490 Dundas St W / ph: 416.703.4400 / store hours: Wed – Sat, Noon to 7pm) ….. Here’s a link to our current issue

4PANEL Class Project #1

4PANEL Class Project #1

Announcing a special 4P project! We recently participated in a creative collaboration with VADA (Visual and Digital Arts), a department of the School of Media Studies and Information Technology at Humber College, Toronto.The 4PANEL format, as we have developed it, was used as a teaching tool, providing both inspiration and structure for the development of creativity in youth. For the first week in May, we’ll be posting our 5 favourite Humber student strips, one a

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Apr/15 4PANEL Offerings

Apr/15 4PANEL Offerings

APRIL 2015 at http://4panel.ca 4 new 4PANEL strips appeared in the past month by Jessica Fortner Illustration, Ethan Rilly, Christopher Green and Anuj Shrestha … have you checked out these new works yet?   Also, we’d like to remind you that 4PANEL appears as a full-colour section in the pages of each new issue of CAROUSEL. : : : : Buy the latest issue of CAROUSEL now  

Scenes from KAZOO 2015

Scenes from KAZOO 2015

Always a great time in Guelph, ON — the KAZOOFEST people put on an excellent fair, and the whole city is alive with music and art! Here’s a peek at a few moments from the day. Great attendance at the Print Expo, an eager audience Artist Justin Gordon did an really cool window display at Disarrays (he’ll likely be appearing in CAROUSEL 36, due out around Christmas, BTW)    

2015 KAZOO Print Expo (Guelph, ON)

2015 KAZOO Print Expo (Guelph, ON)

CAROUSEL will be at the KAZOO Print Expo in Guelph this Saturday! We’ll be debuting a series of amazing $20 curated gift packs (each contains 4 issues, a great deal), and we’ll have some copies of a rare Michael DeForge silkscreen we did waaaaay back, get it for only $25. See you there. https://www.facebook.com/events/1593732504193776/