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June 24, 2016The In Character Interview with Dawn Green
Bennett Ryan led her basketball team to a State championship at her old school, but after her mother's new job forces her to transfer to Riverside High, she finds herself playing alongside her former ...
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July 07, 2016The In Character Interview with Janet Kellough
In the wild, early days of Canada and the United States, saddlebag preachers (also known as circuit riders) were men of the cloth who travelled around ministering to settlers and founding early churches. ...
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January 26, 2017The Entitled Interview, with Ray Michalko
Former RCMP employee turned private eye Ray Michalko has spent hundreds of hours investigating cases of missing and murdered women along the infamous Highway 16 between Prince George and Prince Rupert ...
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September 01, 2020Meet Our September Writer-in-Residence, Cary Fagan!
We're thrilled to announce our September writer-in-residence, Cary Fagan!A prolific author of books for both kids and adults, his critically-acclaimed work has earned him accolades such as the Vicky Metcalfe ...
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August 15, 2017
Interview with Ashley Spires
Today we’re talking to ASHLEY SPIRES! Writer and illustrator of best-selling, award-winning, kid-approved books such as Penguin and the Cupcake, Small Saul, Larf, the Binky the Space Cat series, The ...
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June 28, 2018July 2018 WIR Daniel Perry on Favourite Reads & Biggest Literary Influences, from O'Brien to du Maurier
You can almost feel the dusty air of Currie Township in Daniel Perry's stories. The desire to escape the rotting barns and crumbling roadways is palpable, and captured viscerally in the character of ...
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March 09, 2020On Book Collecting
My favourite place to write is lying on an overstuffed grey sofa, in what was once our attic. My propped-up knees, with a firm cushion over top, form a kind of makeshift desk, on which my notebook perches. ...
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February 04, 2021A.G. Pasquella Shows Readers the City's Dark Side in His Compulsively Readable Toronto Crime Novels
Toronto's dark side takes centre stage in A.G. Pasquella's Jack Palace series. Season of Smoke (Dundurn Press), the newest instalment in the series, sees Jack backed into a terrible corner when his past ...
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September 15, 2021Aaron Schneider's Debut Story Collection Plays with Genre Constraints & Brings Readers Into the Experiment
Aaron Schneider's debut story collection What We Think We Know (Gordon Hill Press) asks readers to consider the genre through the lens of the title. What do we know about the short story? Schneider plays ...
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October 13, 2016The Entitled Interview, with Aaron Kreuter
Aaron Kreuter's debut collection, Arguments for Lawn Chairs (Guernica Editions) is filled with poems that take contemporary themes and references in unexpected, playful directions. From Dumbledore ...
