Search
-
September 08, 2014On the Handmade (Part 3): Q&A with Jennifer Still
(Part 3 of 3. I'm reposting the introductory text from Post 1 to set up the context for Jennifer Still's response.)It’s been said that the hand-written letter is becoming lost to us, or that for many ...
-
February 20, 2014
If One Can Argue Against Traditional Non-Academic Literary Schools, Then One Can Reason Against a Purely Academic Model (Final)
Part 3: Writing as academic practiceDid I mention these are strictly my opinions?First, I am not saying that English, or English Literature, or Creative Writing degrees are not legitimate degrees. (With ...
-
August 10, 2021Guelph MFA Grads Simone Dalton and D.M. Bradford on Family, Loss, Writing, and Community (Part 2 of 2)
Last week we hosted the first half of an in-depth conversation between recent University of Guelph Creative Writing MFA alums Simone Dalton, an author and playwright, and D.M. Bradford, a poet and ...
-
May 30, 2015
Lollipops
Last Saturday, on a beautiful, cloudy morning in Vancouver, I went for a run on the Seawall. It was no ordinary run, mind you, but day 20 of my 16-week marathon-training schedule. I was to run 14 miles: ...
-
March 24, 2017Robert J. Sawyer on Psychopaths, Adaptations, and the State of Publishing
Robert J. Sawyer is one of Canada's most successful writers, both at home and abroad. He's one of only seven writers in the world to have won all three of the top English-language science fiction awards ...
-
May 19, 2017
Kid Lit Can: Personal "Firsts" In Kid Lit, Part Two
Welcome back to my conversation with five amazing authors about their “firsts” in children’s publishing.Just to catch you up: Naseem Hrab is pleased to have her first picture book published; Suzanne ...
-
April 22, 2016“I Imagine the Mind Like a Cleared Field,” an Interview with Chad Campbell
Chad Campbell’s Laws & Locks is an ambitious debut collection of poetry that is part family history and part memoir. Charting the Campbell family's emigration to Canada in 1827 and shifting to the ...
-
May 23, 2017The In Character interview, with Terri Favro
Debbie Reynolds Biondi, the protagonist of Terri Favro's Sputnik's Children (ECW Press), is the author of a beloved comic series. But lately, with her fanbase and her own inspiration waning, things ...
-
February 22, 2019Poetry School: Feminist re-vision with Ms. Rich
Feminist revisionist mythologies represent a vibrant stream in mid-to-late 20th- and 21st-century poetry. I’m thinking of Muriel Rukeyser’s Orpheus; Carol Ann Duffy’s The World’s Wife and Feminine ...
