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Kim Trainor's New Poetry Collection Gives Readers a Blueprint For Survival

Whether an expression of love or loss, of hope or fear, a collection of poetry can frame the most important happenings of our time and give readers a pathway through them. The poems in A Blueprint For ...

Two Novellas Come Together in Nora Gold's In Sickness and In Health / Yom Kippur in a Gym

Sometimes the stories we tell demand unique forms and approaches, and this is certainly the case with In Sickness and In Health/Yom Kippur in a Gym (Guernica Editions) by Nora Gold. This book isn't ...

Canada Reads 2024 Wrap-Up - The Future by Catherine Leroux Wins the Competition

After four days of passionate debate and discussion, Canada Reads 2024 came to a dramatic conclusion, with The Future by Catherine Leroux (translated by Susan Ouriou) taking the glory. Championed ...

Read an Excerpt From the 10th Anniversary Edition of How You Were Born by Kate Cayley

Ten years ago, Kate Cayley firmly established her place as a leading short story writer with the collection, How You Were Born (Book*hug Press). The book went on to win the Trillium Book Award and was ...

Canada Reads 2024 Midweek Recap - Which Will be the One Book to Carry us Forward?

CBC's Canada Reads kicked off yesterday, and there has already been some stirring discussion and debate about the competing titles. There are three books that remain in the running to be crowned the ...

Grant Writing 101: Changes to Canada Council Grants

There are changes at the Canada Council! They were posted without any fanfare or public announcement, but the Canada Council for the Arts has made some significant changes to their granting programs.  DeadlinesThere ...

Brian Dedora Navigates the Truths and Half-Truths of a Traveller in The Apple in the Orchard

The wanderings of a lone traveller through the wilderness, rural and urban, can be harrowing and fraught. But what if the most dangerous journey that traveller must take is a journey into memory?Experimental ...

Emily Austin Uses Her Trademark Sass to Rewrite Bible Verses for the LGBTQIA+ Community

For an author with a background in Religious Studies, Emily Austin is well placed to call up passages from The Bible and examine them closely. This also gives her the ability to look at the text from ...

Johanna Skibsrud shares the lives and perspectives of women who biologically, physically, or spiritually shaped the course of history, in Medium

How do we truly transmit experience, while remaining open to transmissions from others; physically, biologically, intellectually, spirituallly, or culturally? This is one of the central questions in the ...

Lily Wang Brings the Reader Into the Dream in Silver Repetition

The fact the author Lily Wang studied repetition theory in university will not be lost of readers of their new novel, a unique and mesmerizing work where memory and dream, loss and return, and the trappings ...