Brecken Hancock Writers in Residence Archives

Our Interview with Brecken

July 04, 2014

Our Lives of No Interest: the Compulsion to Confess

In middle age there is a mystery, there is mystification. The most I can make out of this hour is a kind of loneliness. Even the beauty of the visible world seems to crumble, yes even love. I feel that ...
June 30, 2014

The Dirty Dozen, with Brecken Hancock

June 30, 2014 - Brecken Hancock is Open Book: Toronto's July 2014 writer-in-residence. Get to know her by checking out her edition of our Dirty Dozen interview series!Broom Broom (Coach House Books), ...

Book cover for "The Right to Be Wrong" by Ray Robertson, featuring a red X on the cover and speech bubbles with the words: Right?, Wrong., Right!, and Wrong!!.

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Book cover for "The Right to Be Wrong" by Ray Robertson, featuring a red X on the cover and speech bubbles with the words: Right?, Wrong., Right!, and Wrong!!.

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Book cover of "Briarwood" by Natalie Hyde, showing an illustrated forest scene, with promotional text about the novel targeting middle-grade readers.

Book cover of "Syncopation" by Whitney French with a quote praising the book, and the publisher’s website, wolsakandwynn.ca, displayed on a light blue background.