M Jane Colette

101 Flirty Writing Prompts to get you writing, and no-nonsense instructions on how to get started, how to keep going-and what to do with all your writing prompt pieces when you're done!

As gay as a Western rodeo? You bet. A Queer Summer Night in Cowtown riffs off the urban Stampede YYC plays host to every July, and features 10 hot and cold queer shorts for the 10 days of the Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth. This fourth collaborative project by YYC Queer Writers features: On the Floor by Alyssa Linn Palmer, Voyeur by Dirk Van Dyk, On the Range by Dallas Barnes, Coming by PW Zellie, The Steward of the Treaty 7 Sodium Forest by Beatrice Aucoin, Hawk's Eye by Karen O., After Care by T, First Rodeo by Lotis Cervantes, You, and the Herds by Callan Field, and Dhakira by M. Jane Colette. All profits from the anthology's sales go to benefit Alberta's Camp Fyrefly. Camp fYrefly is a summer camp and leadership retreat designed for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans-identified, two-spirited, intersexed, queer, and questioning youth, (LGBTQ2S+) and planned in part by a committee of the same youth it seeks to serve. Camp fYrefly is designed to help youth develop the leadership skills and personal resiliency necessary for them to become agents for positive change in their schools, families, and communities. In other words, it helps keep queer kids alive.Although we are fundraising for a youth program, the content of our anthology contains mature themes, explores themes of sex and sexuality, sometimes explicitly, and is intended for an adult audience.

Roses, cupid's arrows, chocolate--chocolate? Screw chocolate Queer up Valentine's Day instead with these hilarious, heartbreaking (sometimes deliciously filthy) valentines by a posse of queer authors who have a fresh, occasionally revolutionary (always, insightful) take on love. A perfect Valentine's gift for the queer reader in your life.Featuring fiction (or is it?), poetry, and non-fiction (or is it?) from Beatrice Aucoin, Dallas Barnes, L. Sara Bysterveld, Lotis Cervantes, M. Jane Colette, Callan Field, Elisa Kae, Tanysia Komers, H. P. Longstocking, Tet Millare, Brooke Nicholas, Alyssa Linn Palmer, Dana Stan, T, Mel Vee, Ann Zee, and PW Zellie, and photography from Leslie Pringle.

The debut project from YYC Queer Writers and the first volume of Screw Chocolate, released in February 2017 as an online multimedia project, turns Valentine's Day and romantic love conventions upside down and then some. Who wants chocolate for on February 14th? Screw chocolate Queer up Valentine's Day instead with these sassy, sexy, sweet (yet sometimes deliciously filthy) valentines by a posse of queer authors who have a fresh, occasionally revolutionary (always, insightful) take on love. A perfect Valentine's gift for the queer reader in your life.Featuring fiction (or is it?), poetry, and non-fiction (or is it?) from Dallas Barnes, L. Sara Bysterveld, Lotis Cervantes, M. Jane Colette, Marzena Czarnecka, Elisa Kae, Brooke Nicholas, Alyssa Linn Palmer, Nola Sarina, Dana Stan, T, and PW Zellie, and photography by Jennifer Weihmann.SCREW CHOCOLATE:14 QUEER valentines to get you through February 14 by YYC Queer Writers curated by M. Jane Colette photography by Jennifer Weihmann Mountains & Moments by T Karma, in Pronouns by Marzena Czarnecka The Long Commute by L. Sara Bysterveld It Happens Like This by Dana Stan Try by M. Jane Colette Sunrise by Brooke Nicholas Want by T Get The Fuck Up & Love by Dallas Barnes Elizabeth by Nola Sarina Instructions by PW Zellie Unmentionables by Alyssa Linn Palmer The Shy Girl's Guide to Sexting by M. Jane Colette Delivery by Elisa Kae Alter Ego In A Red Tie by Lotis Cervantes

A baker's dozen of queer Christmas stories for the twelve days of Christmas. An exercise in writing--storytelling--story finishing--and story sharing. The writers were asked to write "true" and "queer." (Also, short. Because, shiny things ) Their interpretations of these instructions are as marvellously unique--and queer--and true--as they are. So... Read. Enjoy. And... join us? Tell your own truth, your own story. And share it. Stories--queer, true, shared--are how we're going to change the world. Truth. Featuring: Queer as Fuck Anglican Virginal by Dallas Barnes The Name by Nola Sarina Double Transition by Beatrice Aucoin A Bed For Andi by L. Sara Bysterveld Except For You by Lotis Cervantes Crushing by T Ribbons by Alyssa Linn Palmer Therapy by M. Jane Colette Love Letter by Tiffany Sostar Hope by Tet Millare At The Ranch by PW Zellie Warm Ears, Big Rock Erin Sneath Anticipating Disappointment by Marzena CzarneckaPhotography by Tet Millare

This: this is about us. Always. An opportunity. A gift. A chance to come together again. And you want it as much as I do. “Thank you for unhinging my sanity, threatening the stability of my life, with one text. Because that’s how it begins, one text, one message. “I’m coming to town. Would like to see you.” And I think, why not? Old friend. Oldest of friends. Favourite of ex-lovers. Married now, as am I. Both anchored in lives full of obligation, responsibility to others. Safe. What’s the harm? We’re neither one of us stupid enough to risk our marriages, our families, our real lives. Are we?” As Jane “sexts” her lover and attempts to figure out how this aspect of herself fits into the obligations of marriage and motherhood, other relationships around her strain, fracture, and collapse. Her best friend is recklessly pursuing a series of cyber-affairs, while another friend attempts an open, polyamorous marriage. Her next-door neighbour is planning a wedding with her on-again/off-again lover—but will it really happen? Meanwhile her lawyer-husband is exchanging a lot of texts with an adoring young associate. Does Jane care? Or is she too engulfed in her own sanity-straining cyber affair to really notice?