Columnists
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August 03, 2021In Praise of Editors
By Waubgeshig RiceI believe the most important relationship in publishing is between the author and the editor. It’s a fundamental partnership that turns ideas into prose and drafts into polished works. When the editing ...
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July 22, 2021Book Therapy: The Philosophy of Gardening
By Stacey May Fowles“He continued gardening at his desk. Not in the form of borders and beds, but in the form of paragraphs and pages. Row by row, he enjoyed the image of the writer being like a gardener.”—Elke Von ...
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July 06, 2021The Listener in the Work: How a Sense of Address Can Transform Your Writing
By Shazia Hafiz RamjiWho is the “speaker” in your poems talking to? Is there a listener within your story? Who is the narrator’s confidante? I’ve been thinking a lot about a sense of address and I’ve come to believe ...
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June 30, 2021Brain Fog: An Essay
By A.H. ReaumeBrain Fog: An Essay[1]“I am…” I type.But then a thought fords the sentence. My fingers hover above the keyboard, like soldiers awaiting a command. I have… forgotten something. But what?I can ...
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June 28, 2021Necessary Residential School Reading
By Waubgeshig RiceAs more and more mass graves at former residential school sites are brought to light, many Canadians are finally realizing the extent of genocide in this country, while many Indigenous people are reliving ...
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June 25, 2021A daydreamer’s guide to the world outside
By Jon-Erik LappanoHow children’s stories can cultivate connection to nature, and why I look wistfully out of windows I’ve spent most spare moments I’ve had during the recent time blob staring out of windows. Between ...
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June 04, 2021Book Therapy: Care Of
By Stacey May Fowles“I never set out to be a queer author. I really didn’t. I just loved writing and especially telling stories. I know now in retrospect that I was feeding and watering a vast and hollow space inside ...
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June 01, 2021Podcasting about Indigenous books
By Waubgeshig RiceThe world of podcasting is already saturated. Even book podcasts are abundant, with various shows focusing on everything from reviews to an author’s body of work to genre. Although it seems a new podcast ...
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May 28, 2021The Writing Moment with... Word Service
By Daniel Scott Tysdal“A waste of skin.”That’s what I am. At least according to the Starbucks customer who hurled this insult (and others) at me, when I informed her we were out of honey.According to various customers ...
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May 17, 2021Book Therapy: The Quiet is Loud
By Stacey May Fowles“The more people we can have around us that who we can trust, the more we can work on finding ways to thrive in this world we live in.The one that sometimes hates us.”—Samantha Garner, The Quiet ...
