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October 29, 2023Reading the Veil
When it’s going well, writing feels like magic. You sit in front of a blank page, and against all expectation, open a portal to new people, scenarios, settings, and ideas. Through some synthesis of ...
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October 25, 2023Naben Ruthnum on His Delightfully Creepy YA Horror Debut, a Spooky Love Letter to the 90s
Behind the facade of small towns lurk many things – something high schooler Vish knows all too well in acclaimed author Naben Ruthnum's first foray into young adult fiction, The Grimmer (ECW Press).Vish's ...
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October 22, 2023Writing For Ghouls
It’s spooky season, and here in Atlantic Canada the ambiance is that of a flooded crypt. The smell of wet fallen leaves, rainy days that feel heavy and dark as night, smoke on the air indicating warmth ...
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![banner image of author David Kingston Yeh in front of a red brick wall with white chalk drawings. Text reads interview with David Kingston Yeh. I keep a light tone [but] I am still writing to disrupt. Open Book logo bottom left](/var/site/storage/images/news/gay-love-is-so-punk-rock-david-kingston-yeh-on-wrapping-up-his-celebrated-toronto-trilogy/120649-1-eng-CA/Gay-Love-is-So-Punk-Rock-David-Kingston-Yeh-on-Wrapping-Up-His-Celebrated-Toronto-Trilogy_blog_post_wide.jpg "banner image of author David Kingston Yeh in front of a red brick wall with white chalk drawings. Text reads interview with David Kingston Yeh. I keep a light tone [but] I am still writing to disrupt. Open Book logo bottom left")
![banner image of author David Kingston Yeh in front of a red brick wall with white chalk drawings. Text reads interview with David Kingston Yeh. I keep a light tone [but] I am still writing to disrupt. Open Book logo bottom left](/var/site/storage/images/news/gay-love-is-so-punk-rock-david-kingston-yeh-on-wrapping-up-his-celebrated-toronto-trilogy/120649-1-eng-CA/Gay-Love-is-So-Punk-Rock-David-Kingston-Yeh-on-Wrapping-Up-His-Celebrated-Toronto-Trilogy_blog_post.jpg "banner image of author David Kingston Yeh in front of a red brick wall with white chalk drawings. Text reads interview with David Kingston Yeh. I keep a light tone [but] I am still writing to disrupt. Open Book logo bottom left")
October 13, 2023"Gay Love is So Punk Rock" David Kingston Yeh on Wrapping Up His Celebrated Toronto Trilogy
The B-Side of Daniel Garneau (Guernica Editions) is the final instalment in David Kingston Yeh's iconic trilogy exploring queer love in Toronto, which started with A Boy at the Edge of the World (2018) ...
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October 06, 2023Sara Truuvert Explores a Child's View of Japanese Internment in Her Moving First Picture Book
In Japanese folklore, a baku is a chimeric creature that children can call on to protect them from bad dreams – an eater of nightmares. In fiction writer and poet Sara Truuvert's first picture book Mira ...
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October 05, 2023Keith Ross Leckie on Celebrating the Power & Courage of Writers in Exile in The Uncaged Voice
A press and publishing industry free from government censorship is something we hold sacred in Canada and consider inviolable. Yet writers around the world risk persecution, imprisonment, and violence ...
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October 04, 2023Music, Automation, and Writing With a Satellite Mindset
Technology drained away my love of new music with the promise of access. That’s why I didn’t see it happening. Logging on to my subscription streaming service, I’m greeted with abundance—playlists ...
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October 02, 2023October 2023 Writer in Residence Peter Counter on Writing After the Unthinkable
Peter Counter was on a perfectly normal family vacation when the unthinkable happened: a stranger shot Counter's father, leaving Counter to drag him, wounded and bleeding, to safety. It was a moment ...
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September 28, 2023Grant writing 101: Writing a budget
Writing a grant budget can be daunting, but I promise it doesn’t have to be! Many writing grants don’t even require budgets (TAC and OAC!), but some grants, including the Canada Council for the Arts ...
