IBO X: MELT is available NOW at Backstreet records, Castlecarry, The Feel Good Store, Hero’s Beacon, and Union House! Get ‘em before they’re gone! It’s our last issue!❤️ 🫠
Acting debut alert - really excited to join @sjb.506 ’s cast of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at @placefortlatour July 15 -18 & 22-25! enjoy the @loyalistcityshakespeare productions every summer and I’m thrilled to be taking part. 🧚 🫏(& shoutout to @eepy_95 for encouraging me to audition 🖤)
Really looking forward to interviewing former Minister of Addictions & Mental Health, CUPE national president and BC MLA Judy Darcy about her new memoir - see you April 16 at @saintjohnfpl
COMING in Spring 2026: IT’S BURNING OFF X: MELT
IBO is now seeking your submission of black & white art, comics, essays, poetry, & stories (800 words or less) along the themes of:
-spring thaws
-transitional seasons
-ocean and river voyages
-waterfalls, freshets, and floods
-release & catharsis
-awakenings
-controversial new directions
Send your stuff by April 22, 2026 to [email protected]
HOT OFF THE PRESSES: IT’S BURNING OFF IX: LOVE GONE COLD
In Saint John, can you ever really break up?
Lovers come and go, friendships fail - and then, some grey afternoon, they are again: at the movies, at the corner store, or driving silently past, a ghost from a version of your life in which they still play a part. Or perhaps you’ll wave. Then they’ll wave back. And then who knows?
We at It’s Burning Off believe that anything really good is worth fighting for - but also, when it’s truly, irrevocably, over, you got to know when to fold ‘em. Folded in the pages of our 9th issue, you will find: spectres of past love, brutal breakups, stubbed toes, snubbed exes, missed connections, hot coffee and cold kisses.
Find your copy at select uptown Saint John this week 💔
Thanks to B.C.-based literary horror magazine @thefifthcornermag for accepting my spooky short story “The Ferryman” for publication this spring. This is the first work of fiction I’ve ever sold, which is exciting! (I’ll post the link when it’s available)
