Columnists
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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 ...
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June 27, 2016“These Two Things Are One,” an Interview With Kilby Smith-McGregor
By James Lindsay & Submitted by KevinKilby Smith-McGregor’s debut poetry collection, Kids in Triage, explores the in-betweens that exist just out of sight. Psychology/biology, art/philosophy, literature/legend all expose their connective ...
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June 21, 2016“I Want the Blur in There,” an Interview with Hoa Nguyen.
By James LindsayIn his introduction to Red Juice (poems 1998-2008), Anselm Berrigan describes the poetry of Hoa Nguyen as, “sonic environments made word by word, provoked by lived experience into forms that, as she ...
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June 17, 2016Revenge of the Indie Bookstore
By Vivek Shraya & Submitted by KevinIn 2014, when I began booking my Crushes and Mountains US book tour with fellow Toronto-based writer Elisha Lim, I Googled “gay bookstore” or “independent bookstore” in cities we were planning ...
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June 13, 2016Dismantling Jane Jordan’s Library
By rob mclennan & Submitted by KevinThroughout the process of distributing ten bins of books, chapbooks and other literary materials once owned by Ottawa poet Jane Jordan (1926-2007), there’s a slight guilt attached to dismantling her ...
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June 06, 2016All Roads Lead to Brampton
By Jael Richardson & Submitted by KevinWe’ve been tallying up the responses for surveys from last month’s Festival of Literary Diversity and we’re thrilled by all the feedback – the good and the bad. It’s helpful to know what worked ...
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June 03, 2016Author as Musician
By Dalton Higgins & Submitted by KevinI have a healthy respect for multi-disciplinary arts; from dance, literature and film, to visual art, theatre and music. Having dabbled in more than a few of these disciplines myself, in different capacities, ...