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April 17, 2017
Susie Berg on Poetry Exercises
The latest poet featured in this series on poetry prompts and exercises is Susie Berg. She's the author of two full-length poetry collections from Piquant Press, including her most recent, All This Blood. ...
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April 04, 2017
A How-To Guide for Your Poetry Reading
There are a lot of poetry readings across Canada in April, National Poetry Month. I myself have a new book out, and therefore have a lot of poetry readings. All of which has gotten me thinking about poetry ...
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March 27, 2017
What I Wish Someone Had Told Me About Being a Writer #7: Matthew J. Trafford
Matthew J. Trafford is a short story writer and screenwriter, and the author of The Divinity Gene. He also has a story in a recent issue of The Puritan.What do you wish someone had told you before you ...
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March 14, 2017The WAR Series: Writers as Readers, with Christina DeRoche
Christina DeRoche and Ellie D. Berger are the editors of The Parent Track: Timing, Balance, and Choice in Academia (Wilfrid Laurier University Press), which examines the intersection between parenthood ...
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March 02, 2017The WAR Series: Writers as Readers, with Anne Fleming
The Kid thinks it might be a tiny white cloud. The rumours say it's a goat. All we know for sure is there is something up there on the roof of the NYC apartment building where the Kid has just moved with ...
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January 18, 2017The WAR Series: Writers as Readers, with Jeremy Grimaldi
Journalist Jeremy Grimaldi had a front row seat, as a court reporter, to one of the strangest murder cases in Canadian history. When 24 year-old Jennifer Pan, outwardly a successful Scarborough student, ...
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January 13, 2017Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Writer
Terri Favro is a literary gadabout in the best sense of the word. Whenever I turn around, she's doing something new: a Broken Pencil short story challenge, contributing to CBC's contest, putting out a ...
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January 09, 2017The WAR Series: Writers as Readers, with JonArno Lawson
JonArno Lawson The Hobo's Crowbar (Porcupine's Quill) is an infectiously rhythmic collection of children's poetry, filled to the brim with Lawson's trademark (and award-winning) whimsy and wit. The playfulness ...
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November 29, 2016The WAR Series: Writers as Readers, with Mat Laporte
Mat Laporte's Rats Nest (BookThug) has a pretty unique protagonist - "The Kid" is self-reproducing and 3D-printed, but no less compelling for his strange origins. With him, we explore the bizarre and ...
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November 02, 2016The WAR Series: Writers as Readers, with Katherine Ashenburg
Katherine Ashenburg's All the Dirt: A History of Getting Clean (Annick Press) gets pretty filthy, but it's still appropriate (and irresistible) for its middle grade audience, because this dirt is the ...
