Columnists
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February 04, 2020How Ableism Stopped Me From Writing
By A.H. Reaume“When will your novel be ready to send to agents?”Maddy asked this question as we lay on the beach. It was a hot August day and we were looking out at the water and eating cherries. I smiled and put ...
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January 31, 2020Quick and Dirty on Communication and Inviting Writers to Do All the Things
By Chelene KnightIt’s a beautiful thing when writers make money. It’s an incredible feeling to open up your email and see all the love, invites, and possible project collaborations. This influx is not constant, it ...
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January 27, 2020New Year's Resolutions for Authors and Illustrators to Try in 2020
By Naseem HrabI looove coming up with new year’s resolutions. There’s nothing like the reset button of a new year to help you recommit to your creative aspirations!Personally, I’d love to complete three picture ...
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January 24, 2020Making Time: Making Randomness & #SSCLUB
By Shazia Hafiz RamjiWhen 2020 began, I’d been off most social media for about twenty-two days. My decision wasn’t deliberate. In fact, it was reactive. The night before I went offline, I read a short story: “Innards” ...
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January 15, 2020The Craft of Reading: How Reading 260 Books This Year Made Me a Better Writer
By A.H. ReaumeI was making a care package for a writer friend recently and wanted to include a book in it.“What have you been dying to read?” I asked her before heading out to the bookstore.“Fever Dream by Samanta ...
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January 10, 2020“It Happened to a Friend of a Friend of Mine:” What I Learned from Serialized Horror
By Natasha RamoutarYou’ve heard this tale before. It’s the one about the hook hand, a lone accessory on the car door of an unsuspecting couple. Or better yet, it’s the call that the babysitter finds out is coming ...
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January 07, 2020Book Therapy: Teva Harrison’s Not One of These Poems Is About You
By Stacey May Fowles“I am careless in my griefSlip on gravel, send it tumbling down the cliff face.I am careful in my grief.Keep the precious rocks safeAs I climb.”—Teva Harrison, A Pocket Full of Stones There are ...
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January 06, 2020The Need for More Non-Traditional Mentorship in Canadian Publishing
By Chelene KnightWhen I was in school, the act of reading books was just that, reading books. I wasn’t categorizing them. I wasn’t thinking about publishing, editors, marketability, or whether or not a book was considered ...
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December 23, 2019How You Get Paid Writing Children’s Books or: Math is Fun!
By Naseem HrabOne question I rarely get asked is how you get paid when you write and/or illustrate children’s books. I know people have a lot of questions regarding how much they might get paid, but how does the ...
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December 19, 2019The Great Kingston Bake Off
By Nancy Jo CullenDecember! The end of the year! The end of a doozy of a decade! Bring on the next few weeks of excess, acid reflux and the superhuman effort to not compare my own work and efforts to anyone else’s as ...