Columnists
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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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July 07, 2017Here’s to Summer! - A Reading List
By Stacey May FowlesUsually when the warmer months of the year are upon us, our minds turn to all of that fun, relaxing reading we’ve been putting off. There’s just something about summer that makes us fantasize about ...
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March 01, 2017Geometry Made Into Poetry: A conversation with Mark Kingwell about the game of baseball
By Stacey May FowlesFor baseball devotees, whether they be of the emotional or analytical type, this time of year is one of hope, renewal, and endless possibility. Over the past few weeks, baseball players from across the ...
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January 24, 2017The Fraught Finish Line: Writers talk about the end of the book
By Stacey May FowlesThe act of finally finishing a book comes with its own unique set of emotions. Some, of course, are fairly obvious—you spend weeks, months, and years of your life on a single project, writing and rewriting, ...
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August 15, 2016The Final Days of Summer Reading
By Stacey May FowlesAs we find ourselves in last gasps of summer (how is it already August?) it’s time to park it on the back porch and really focus on that list of carefully chosen seasonal reads.The summer book really ...
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June 29, 2016On Being Plagiarized
By Stacey May Fowles & Submitted by KevinSubmitted by kevin on June 29, 2016 - 1:36pmAbout a month ago, I came out of a meeting to find a rather strange tweet in my mentions.Someone I had never interacted with before popped up to inform me that ...
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May 31, 2016Writing What’s Closest to Home
By Stacey May Fowles & Submitted by KevinLast year, when I turned in the first draft of a memoir on rape trauma, my editor had a pretty reasonable observation. Despite divulging various details of violation, illness, and the path to getting ...
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April 12, 2016Why Don’t We Take Sports Writing Seriously?
By Stacey May Fowles & Submitted by KevinIn February of last year, Canadian Notes and Queries publisher Dan Wells kindly approached me with a question. “Brainstorming a games issue of CNQ,” he wrote in an email. “Wondered if you might ...