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March 07, 2010
Four Oonline Canadian Literary Journals You Should Know About
It seems not too long ago that online literary journals were poor cousins to their established counterparts in print. In the age of dial-up connections and primitive web design, when almost everyone had ...
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July 28, 2016The Lucky Seven Interview, with Rona Arato
What's worse than being dragged away from New York to spend the entire summer working at a hotel in the mountains? How about finding out that there's a headless horseman haunting the area? The hero of ...
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May 20, 2016Domestic Epic: an Interview with Ken Sparling
To fully appreciate the books of CanLit anomaly Ken Sparling, it helps to think of his work as a single statement told from different perspectives. Each book is a unique view, yet every time we meet a ...
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June 24, 2025Fantasy-Adventure Readers Will Be Enthralled by Tonia Laird's New Novel, Seventhblade
Our featured author today, Tonia Laird, has had a fascinating and unique journey in storytelling, with multiple publications in magazines and journals and a career in the video game industry as a lorekeeper, ...
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June 13, 2017The In Character interview, with Connie Guzzo-McParland
Connie Guzzo-McParland's The Women of Saturn (Inanna Publications) continues the story of Cathy (formerly Caterina) from Guzzo-McParland's novel The Girls of Piazza d’Amore. Now living in Montreal, ...
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January 10, 2025Mary Maliszewski Celebrates International Women's Day in a New Nonfiction Book
As young readers learn more about some of the important causes of our time, and those that were undertaken by previous generations, they will be eager to find out more about women's right movements and ...
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August 30, 2016The Lucky Seven Interview, with Mike Barnes
The Adjustment League (Biblioasis) is the first instalment in a new noir trilogy by Mike Barnes. This first book sees the patients of a psychiatric hospital coming together to form the titular league, ...
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April 02, 2024The Collected Essays in Work to be Done Share Remarkable Insights Into Fifty-Years of Literary Criticism and Analysis
Bruce Whiteman is an accomplished poet, translator, and scholar who has shown a vast scope of knowledge over his literary career. His essays have been published far and wide, and have provided valuable ...
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November 29, 2018Journalist and Debut Author Robert F. Delaney on His Formative Reading, Including Adams, Coupland, & Choy
Journalist Robert F. Delaney has been covering China for major news outlets since 1995, so when he was crafting the setting for his debut novel, The Wounded Muse (Mosaic Press), he had decades of experience ...
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December 17, 2018"I Learned That Writing Could Be Hilarious" Naseem Hrab on the Books that Shaped Her Writing Life
Acclaimed picture book author (and beloved Open Book columnist!) Naseem Hrab knows a thing or two about friendship, and she captures that magic in her Ira Crumb series, the newest instalment of which ...
