Columnists
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October 30, 2017An Interview With Phoebe Wang
By James Lindsay“Like jarring a sore bone, you wince, and the poem gasps out of you...” - Phoebe Wang The geography of Phoebe Wang’s Admission Requirements feels like it’s always in a state of flux. The speaker ...
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October 27, 2017How My Version of the Canlit Community Sustains Me
By Jen Sookfong LeeTwo months ago, one of my best friends was diagnosed with an aggressive form of leukemia. She is a mother. She is a prolific, brilliant writer. And she was my very first writer friend.We first met working ...
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October 16, 2017Chatting With Editors Who Make It Happen - Part Two
By Susan HughesWelcome back! In this, the second part of my autumn blog, I continue my chat with some of the amazing editors which help make it all happen in the publishing world of children’s books. So please say ...
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October 11, 2017On Pseudoscience, Wrestling, and Finding Storytelling in the Unconventional
By Alicia ElliottWhen I was in university I had to take a science course to complete my undergraduate degree. I decided on “Science and Pseudoscience” – mostly because the title reminded me of the sort of conspiracy ...
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September 29, 2017Chatting With Editors Who Make It Happen - Part One
By Susan HughesWelcome to autumn and the return of my Kid Can lit blog! Because to me, September is a time to look forward to new beginnings, especially new writing projects, I decided to chat with some of the amazing ...
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September 27, 2017How I Learned to Write What Scares Me
By Jen Sookfong LeeThree years ago, I wrote a poem.Back then, a few very big things happened in my life. My marriage died. I found a new publisher. And, perhaps most importantly, I started teaching.For my entire publishing ...
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September 12, 2017An Interview with Sarah Pinder
By James Lindsay“When you empty out your psychic pockets, how do all the disparate pieces relate to each other?”I read Sarah Pinder’s most recent poetry collection, Common Place, while commuting from my home in ...
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September 07, 2017CanLit is a Raging Dumpster Fire
By Alicia ElliottWe’ve all said it, heard it, or, more than likely, done both at some point in the past year and a half. In fact, it would seem that dissatisfaction with the state of CanLit, strangely enough, is the ...
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August 30, 2017“I think suffering shows us who we truly are.” - Q&A with Gurjinder Basran
By Stacey May FowlesA Q&A with Gurjinder Basran, author of Someone You Love is GoneIn 2010, debut novelist Gurjinder Basran won the Search for the Great BC Novel Contest, and the following year took home the Ethel Wilson ...
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August 25, 2017Welcome to the Great White North
By Lily QuanA lifelong Torontonian, I left my hometown several years ago for the Far North. I watched Toronto transform from a big city with the heart of a small town to an enormous city that seemed heartless. I ...
