Columnists
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September 14, 2016Profile on Show and Tell Poetry Series, with a Few Questions
By rob mclennanShow and Tell Poetry Series is a new reading series in Peterborough that features local emerging and established poets from Peterborough and beyond, held at Curated in the Charlotte Mews (203 Simcoe ...
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September 09, 20166 Reasons to Go to a Canadian Litfest
By Jael RichardsonWhile kids enjoy the first days of school, September also marks the start of the busiest season on the CanLit calendar. There are book launches and reading series and literary award announcements galore. ...
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September 06, 2016September: My Season of Jealousy
By Vivek Shraya & Illustration by Karen Campos CastilloSeptember marks the beginning of award announcements and big fall book launches. In recent years, September has also marked the beginning of my season of jealousy. I feel apprehensive typing these words ...
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August 31, 2016The Lower Reaches of Pulp
By Naben RuthnumIt’s rare for me to be disturbed by a book: usually, I enjoy being scared or pushed to an extreme emotion within the safety of a page. But I was badly bothered by a pulp novel from the 1980s that I ...
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August 25, 2016When I Read a Really Amazing Poem It Feels like It's Working Some Sort of Magic on Me, an Interview with Cassidy Mcfadzean
By James LindsayHacker Packer, the debut collection from Cassidy McFadzean, is a wild destination wedding between the colloquial and the archaic. So much is happening at this party, one is tempted to slow down, even ...
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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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August 12, 2016Tokenism vs. Inclusion
By Jael Richardson & Illustration by Chelsea CharlesLast month, I wrote a piece about my frustrations with the lack of diversity in Canada’s publishing industry. In the comments, it was mentioned that while some folks are trying to make improvements, ...
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July 11, 201612 Reasons CanLit's Got Me Feeling so Tired
By Jael Richardson & Illustration by Chelsea CharlesI sat through and wandered by a lot of literary industry panels at a recent event where the large majority of the industry panelists were white. And while it’s not an unusual experience in the CanLit ...
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July 07, 2016How to Plan a Book Tour
By Vivek Shraya & Submitted by KevinAs grateful as I am for the vast reach that the internet provides artists, every time I tour I am reminded of the value of real life human connection and interaction. Being able to travel with my art ...
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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 ...
