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June 10, 2019"Compassion, Imagination, Enthusiasm, & the Freedom to Make Mistakes" Humber Summer Workshop Instructors Giles Blunt & Michelle Winters on Workshopping & Writing Advice
Is this the summer you kick start that writing project you've been thinking about for so long? The Humber Summer Workshop, part of the prestigious Humber School for Writers, is a short, intensive program ...
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December 22, 2023Book Therapy: Favourites From My Favourites
“My eclectic reading habits often lead me through various genres, from memoirs and horror novels to young adult fiction and anything else that I happen to grab. However, I have a particular fondness ...
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May 05, 2023Read an Excerpt from The Trauma Beat, Tamara Cherry's Call for Journalists to Change How They Cover Violent Crime
Imagine you've just experienced the worst moment of your life – the worst moment most people could imagine: the violent, unexpected loss of a loved one. In the shock-numbed minutes and hours that follow, ...
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November 12, 2018
For All Appearances...
If you’ve made it far enough in your writing career to have found a publisher or put in the time and effort to self-publish, then you may think the work is done. Yay! Your book is going to be out there ...
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September 27, 2017How I Learned to Write What Scares Me
Three years ago, I wrote a poem.Back then, a few very big things happened in my life. My marriage died. I found a new publisher. And, perhaps most importantly, I started teaching.For my entire publishing ...
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May 01, 2014Residential Zoning: Comics, Poutine, and the Publishing Ecosystem
Here's hoping you don't learn anything about me this May.My name is Evan Munday, and if you've heard of me at all, it was probably through my past publicity work at venerable Canadian indie press Coach ...
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March 06, 2017
Kid Lit Can: Spotlight on Middle Grade Fiction - Part 2
Today I continue my chat with four terrific middle-grade novel authors. They’ll share more about their writing process, their aspirations for their writing -- and even reveal something … well, something ...
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April 26, 2019"Inclusion Means More Than Just Checking a Box" FOLD Authors Ferguson, Foster & Rice on CanLit, How They Write & What They're Reading
It's hard to think of a literary event that has grown and expanded as quickly and with as much excitement around it as the The Festival of Literary Diversity (aka the FOLD). In just a few short years, ...
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April 25, 2018On respectable narratives and why diversity on the page matters
Growing up, I was very particular kind of Chinese girl. I attended Chinese school on Saturdays. I took piano lessons. My report cards were always the best in my class. I played first clarinet in my school ...
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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 ...
