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Tweet Tweet: A City’s Past & Present: Remapping Vancouver

@poetchelene: After reading and researching about the setting in my novel I felt compelled to recognize the city as a character. #hogansalleyfactorfiction  “Junie stood on her balcony overlooking the ...

Tweet Tweet: Self-Care for Writers

@poetchelene “It's time to take a self-care hour! #amwriting #projects”People keep saying that they see me everywhere. How do you do all of this? Great question, I have no idea, but I do know how ...

Lise Weil on Reconciling Zen and Desire, Visionary Books, & How a Lost Cat Led to Love

The '70s and '80s were a time of radical change and evolution, and the queer community was particularly instrumental in resisting and interrogating the environmental and social crises of that time, the ...

"What's Your Story?" Read the Winning Texts of the 2018 OBPO Writing Contest Winners! Part Two: North York

What's better than reading brand new stories from talented Toronto authors? How about reading them for free? We're excited to present, exclusive on Open Book, the second set of winning texts from the Ontario ...

Kim Moritsugu on the Writing Life, Her Best and Worst Events, & Guidance from Nora Ephron

Kim Moritsugu's smart, tight, witty, and character-driven novels have earned her tons of fans. Her brand new, seventh novel, The Showrunner (Dundurn Press), shows that there is just as much drama and ...

Contest! Enter to Win a Huge Set of Debut Poetry Collections from Brick Books

Who doesn't love to be first? You can feel the joy by entering our First Collections Giveaway, courtesy of Canada's favourite poetry publisher, Brick Books! Enter for a shot at winning a staggering TEN ...

Tweet Tweet: Form and Structure: Ripping Stitches

@lethal_heroine: “Love the way this book by @PoetChelene is structured. Each chapter is an apartment or hotel room she & her mother lived in. I felt those mattresses, looked out those crummy windows, ...

On Middles

Recently I sat at the booksellers’ table during a poetry reading. This is best-case scenario seating. You might feel a little nervous that you’ll spill your drink on hundreds of dollars of merch, ...

“What Does it Mean to Be Home?” Our June 2018 Writer-in-Residence Chelene Knight on Her Writing Journey

Dear Current Occupant (Book*hug) is the second book from Vancouver's Chelene Knight, whose debut poetry collection Braided Skin was praised as "compelling" and "a whorl of wisdom". With Dear Current ...

Aaron Tucker on Writing the Complex Man Who Fathered the Atomic Bomb

J. Robert Oppenheimer is known for his reluctant but irreversible legacy as the father of the atomic bomb and director of the infamous Manhattan Project. But there was more to the man than the bomb, and ...