Beyond the chick-lit aura given off by the glittery cover, Eric Schmaltz sees “a deeper sense of intelligence and sharp wit” in Myna Wallin’s Confessions of a Reluctant Cougar.

Read the full article on brokenpencil.com.

Myna Wallin’s Confessions of a Reluctant Cougar was reviewed in the Globe and Mail by Mary-Lou Zeitoun, who called it “an act of admirable bravery”.

To read the full review, see the archived version here.

Myna Wallin will be reading at the Plasticine Poetry Series this Sunday, April 17th, 2011.

The event begins at 6 pm at The Central, located at 603 Markham Street in Toronto.

Myna Wallin is a poet, prose writer & editor living in Toronto. She has published A Thousand Profane Pieces and Confessions of a Reluctant Cougar, both with Tightrope Books. Her career is taking a sexy turn with a presenter’s gig at The Sixth Annual Feminist Porn Awards this month, and a position teaching erotic writing at U of T’s School of Continuing Studies next fall. Myna’s novel was reviewed recently in the Globe as a “an admirable act of bravery.”

Julie Johnson reviewed Confessions of a Reluctant Cougar on GoodReads, calling it full of humour and full of truth.

To read the full review click here.

Myna Wallin will be giving a workshop on Saturday, April 16th, Freeing Your Erotic Self in Poetry or Prose.

The goal of this workshop is to find a vocabulary for the erotic self; writers will explore ways of describing their characters’ lives fully and unselfconsciously, to enhance the story or poem at hand. Exploring your sensual self can be exciting, freeing. How much is too much sex; how much is not enough? By incorporating just the right amount of eroticism into your writing you will add a level of depth and authenticity to your writing.

Click here for more information and to sign up.

From the introduction to the very last page In The Dark brings together twenty-eight works by Canadian authors, which touch on everything from madmen, ghosts, poltergeists and spooks.

Editors Myna Wallin and Halli Villegas bring together a unique collection of stories that are witty, eerie and frightening. All twenty-eight stories delve into the dark shadows and corners of each writer’s imagination, the place where all supernatural stories begin.

For more information about the editors or authors of In The Dark please visit the Tightrope Book catalogue.