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Hearing Your Words Come to Life

Bobby Singh is the audio engineer in charge of recording the audio book of my new novel, working out of an audio studio on Dufferin Street near the tracks in Toronto’s west end.I love audio studios: ...

Calling All Writers to an Audio Book Project

Once upon a time, audio books were recorded (somewhat mysteriously to a writer) by the Canadian National Institute for the Blind.There was always a clause in your publishing contract giving the CNIB the ...

The Lucky Seven, with Julia Cooper

Julia Cooper's The Last Word: Reviving the Dying Art of Eulogy (Coach House Books) is part of Coach House's unique and provocative Exploded Views non-fiction series. In texts that are longer than magazine ...

How to Make an Audio Book

So there I was in the studio, listening to actor Pascal Langdale tape the narration of my novel Mad Richard for an audio book.Born in England, educated at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, ...

Contest! Tell us your favourite nominated book to win a Trillium Award prize pack!

The Trillium Awards honour excellence in Ontario literature, boasting a back catalogue of winners that includes Alice Munro, Michael Ondaatje, and Margaret Atwood, amongst other luminaries. This year's ...

The Dirty Dozen, with Pasha Malla

Trillium Prize winner Pasha Malla's new novel Fugue States (Knopf Canada) tells the story of Ash, an intellectual, anxious radio host, and his uncouth, entitled nightmare-bro of a friend, Matt, who shows ...

On Writing, with paulo da costa

The idiom "small is beautiful" is often true in fiction - from short stories to microfiction, sometimes the briefest glimpses into an imagined world are the most arresting. The Midwife of Torment & ...

Hockey Stalking

I’m a big advocate of writers carrying notebooks. You can jot down thoughts, overheard conversations—I’m a terrible eavesdropper—sights you want to call up later.Yesterday, a father was trying ...

Contest! Win a Pack of Powerful Poetry from Wilfrid Laurier University Press

Is every month Poetry Month for you? Are your shelves packed with stanzas and line breaks, from free verse to villanelle? Why not add even more great poetry to your personal library with this incredible ...

The Proust Questionnaire, with Kate Cayley

Kate Cayley slips easily from genre to genre, gathering accolades in poetry, young adult and adult fiction (including scooping a prestigious Trillium Prize for her story collection How You Were Born), ...