yuan's lit endeavours: 3 july 2021

1. got 11 acceptances in march, 17 in april, 15 in may and 6 in jun from online and/or print magazines including tuesday, xavier rev, flinthills rev, meniscus lit j, welter, borderland and tint j;

2.  on 31 mar, Poetry Pacifc Press released via kindle (traditional chinese) my mom's memoirs Ordinary Life, Ordinary Story《平凡人生，平凡故事》at https://www.amazon.ca/-/fr/%E5%8A%89-%E7%91%9C-ebook/dp/B08ZJS7SHG/ref=zg_bsnr_935038_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=HKW8JQPWTZJZ02FVKQ5X

3. on 22 april, PP Press release via kindle (traditional chinese) my My Chinese Concerns 《忧华集》, a collection of flash blogpostings about chinese culture and chinese personality at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09348KQG5;

4. on 27 april, PP Press released via kindle (traditional chinese) my first and only poetry collection in chinese Selected Poems of Yuan Changming 《袁昌明诗选》   at https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B092TRSGXM/ref=cm_r_oth_apl_glt_NSVBPJ22VYQKBS9G4;

5. on june 11, the results of canada's 44th national magazine awards were officially released, meaning that my work as a juror was formally completed, while all the background information on the jury released at the same time https://magazine-awards.com/en/2021/05/04/2021-national-magazine-awards-jury/;

6. on 16 jun, PP decided to publish via kindle (traditional chinese) dr Li Gongbo's book Nonsense 《胡说八道》by the end of october, which is a collection of mini essays about ways of thinking, as well as about the spiritual cultivation;

7. for the past couple of years, i have written 38 love poems, about half of which have appeared or are forthcoming in english journals. this is poetic breakthrough on a personal level, since i had been simply unable to write such poetry before the pandemic began in my native province towards the end of 2019, when i met my 'first love' (rather than for my 'first date') for the first time after 42 years of separation without knowing each other's whereabouts. needless to say, all these poems are inspired or written for her.