Columnists
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April 29, 2022Book Therapy: Good Mom on Paper
By Stacey May Fowles & Jen Sookfong Lee“Children require their parents to search for small moments of peace or grace or dignity. Maybe we can treat creativity the same way: creating the one true thing within a project that is otherwise just ...
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April 21, 2022How to Start a Writers’ Group
By Lindsay Zier-VogelI spent years working on a novel about a lifeguard who was terrified of drowning. Years, of sitting in the same corner of the same coffee shop bashing out draft after unreadable draft. And the only feedback ...
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March 31, 2022The Best of Both Worlds
By D.D. MillerHumber College’s new undergrad in creative and professional writing strives to nurture skilled creative professionals.I always wanted to be a writer. Or maybe it’s that I always wrote. I took the ...
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March 29, 2022The challenges (and joys) of receiving feedback
By Lindsay Zier-VogelI am not proud of it, but my initial response to feedback on my writing is an instant NOPE. No way! ABSOLUTELY NOT. “What if you switched the point of view to third person?”NOPE. No way! ABSOLUTELY ...
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March 25, 2022Locked Down and Longing for Community: The Genesis of The Quarantine Review
By Jeff Dupuis and Sheeza SarfrazIt started in a pub on the Danforth, the bar filled with older gentlemen dejected at the cancellation of the Dave Mason concert at the Music Hall a half-block away. COVID wasn’t real to them yet, as ...
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March 18, 2022Making the Leap: Why Writing Programs Matter Right Now
By Meaghan StrimasI’ve been on campus exactly once since March 2020, during the height of one of the province’s lockdowns, to pack up my old office at Humber College’s Lakeshore Campus. I was leaving my post as the ...
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March 15, 2022Why Canada Reads Needs Unhappy Narratives
By Shazia Hafiz RamjiEach year on Canada Reads, five books of fiction and nonfiction are chosen by Canadian celebrities who advocate for their book of choice as one that “all of Canada should read.” One book is voted ...
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March 09, 2022Book Therapy: Sunny Days Inside
By Stacey May Fowles“Is it safe?” “It’s safe now but when won’t it be safe?” “It’s not actually bad here.” “It’s not bad there either.” “What about the money.” “But what about the kids? They’ll ...
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February 11, 2022Making a skating rink, and other tricks for stepping away from a work-in-progress
By Lindsay Zier-VogelOn a particularly cold Friday morning, I piled my kids in a car with snow pants and skates and a pile of books and we headed to a cottage rental. We all were desperate for a change of scenery, and I was ...
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February 03, 2022Book Therapy: The Music Game
By Stacey May Fowles“I was a human being, and human beings needed to say goodbye, to get together, to cry in the same room.”—Stéfanie Clermont, The Music GameThis deep into the seemingly never ending story that is ...
