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Interview with Kris Vanessa Teo Xin-En, author of 我的名是张欣恩 (Gimme chance leh) banner. Background image of colourful illustrated crabs, Chinese food, and Cookie Monster in stylized graphics, with solid pink section the centre left and text and Open Book logo overlaid. Image of author to centre right, woman with long black hair and green coveralls laughing happily.

Kris Vanessa Teo Xin-En's New Cross-Cultural Drama Warms Hearts and Challenges Stereotypes

Prolific artist Kris Vanessa Teo Xin-En has shown vast range in her career as a playwright, performer, director, producer, and co-artistic director, and her latest work is a cross-cultural drama about ...

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Celebrated Novelist Robert McGill Turns to Short Fiction to Examine Our Complicated World

Long celebrated as a novelist and non-fiction author, Robert McGill has turned his keen literary eye to complex personal stories that explore loss, displacement, identity and events that affect characters ...

October 25, 2024

Liz Worth Explores a Poetic Life and the Mysteries and Truths That Abound in Her New Collection, Inside Every Dream, a Raging Sea

Acclaimed poet Liz Worth has long been involved in the independent lit and poetry scene in Toronto (and now in Hamilton), finding her way into the community after a fortuitous encounter on the street. ...

October 24, 2024

Music and Friendship are at the Heart of an Uplifting Middle Grade Novel from Jean Mills

Along with being a prize-winning author, Jean Mills is also a musician and music lover who has found a wonderful way to tie that passion into her latest middle-grade novel. This new book, After the ...

October 18, 2024

One Mighty Mother Aspen Connects a Beautiful and Elaborate Ecosystem in a New Picture Book by Annette Lebox

As an author and environmentalist who spends much of her time in the remote Cariboo grasslands, two-time BC Book Prize winner Annette LeBox has keen insight into the power and beauty of our forests and ...

October 16, 2024

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