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An Interview with Sarah Pinder

“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 ...

Contest! Win Time Travelling Books from The Word on the Street!

They say the future is friendly and thanks to The Word on the Street, you have the chance to get lost in an array of entertaining futures (and pasts) in our Time Travelling prize pack!The second of our ...

Unsung Heroes of Literature: A "Great" Interview with Quotes

I was leaving for my interview with Blurb when I got the text message, apologizing for the short notice but that, “our interview, that would redefine the modern interview,” would have to be rescheduled. ...

CanLit is a Raging Dumpster Fire

We’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 ...

Nick Mount on the CanLit Boom of the 1960s & What It Meant for Canada

Former Walrus fiction editor and beloved U of T professor Nick Mount knows a thing or two about Canadian literature. Not only did he discover and boost many new voices during his time at the Walrus, but ...

Contest! Win a Huge Fiction Prize Pack from The Word on the Street PLUS Author Cruise Tickets!

Who wouldn't love the chance to fill their bookshelf with tons of amazing fiction?We're kicking off a month-long series of contests with The Word on the Street with a HUGE and varied fiction prize pack. ...

Unsung Heroes of Literature: Interview with a Semicolon

On Semicolon’s suggestion, we agreed to meet at Future Bakery, a coffee house at the corner of Bloor and Brunswick in downtown Toronto. The location was surprisingly humble, a place where third-year ...

The Word on the Street interview, with Judge and Children's Author Manjusha Pawagi

We at Open Book are excited to partner again this year with Toronto's most unique literary festival, The Word on the Street, which takes place this year on Sunday, September 24. We've had the chance to ...

Writers and Money

I’ve been a professional writer for about eight years now, that is, writing has been my full-time occupation. That wasn’t always the case of course, and I’ve tried to be forthright with people about ...

Debut picture book author Carolyn Huizinga Mills on Montgomery, Atwood, Mistry & More

Who doesn't love a nice warm bath? Sally, the protagonist of Carolyn Huizinga Mills' The Little Boy Who Lived Down the Drain (Fitzhenry & Whiteside) certainly loves taking baths -- but as the title ...