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January 24, 2017The Fraught Finish Line: Writers talk about the end of the book
The act of finally finishing a book comes with its own unique set of emotions. Some, of course, are fairly obvious—you spend weeks, months, and years of your life on a single project, writing and rewriting, ...
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April 30, 2018Robert Chafe on Writing a Play About a Man Who Spent His Life Freeing Things Only to Become Trapped Himself
Governor General's Literary Award winning playwright and author Robert Chafe has made a name for himself with both his acclaimed original plays and fiction and his stunning stage adaptations of works ...
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April 12, 2018Mark Frutkin on Describing Characters and Writing a Literal Devil's Advocate
In Mark Frutkin's The Rising Tide (Porcupine's Quill), it's 1769 in Venice and things are getting pretty strange. From a man with a skeleton strapped to his back to a courtesan with odd stigmata marks, ...
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July 23, 2018David Ward, Back from 5 Years in a Tiny, Isolated Newfoundland Community, Shares Publishing Highs & Lows
For writers in Canada, Newfoundland is a special place. After five years living in an isolated Newfoundland community, ecologist David Ward understood that intimately. His story of that time, Bay of ...
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July 24, 2018"My Goals Were Very Visual and Atmospheric from the Start" Scott A. Ford on His Gorgeous New Graphic Novel, Ark Land
Acclaimed illustrator, author, and comic artist Scott A. Ford's Ark Land (ChiZine) follows Kairn, a scavenger who pawns debris from the arks of the alien animals who came to her planet a century ago. ...
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November 05, 2018Kim Trainor on Capturing Both a Tattooed Iron Age Woman & Modern Day Trauma in Her Book Length Poem
In 1993, a Russian scientist discovered the mummified remains of an Iron Age Pazyryk woman. She was covered in tattoos and buried with great ceremony. During the complex and difficult excavation, the ...
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December 11, 2018December Spotlight on Excerpts: Read About the Maple Leaf from Symbols of Canada
Symbols of Canada, edited by Michael Dawson, Catherine Gidney and Donald Wright (Between the Lines Books), delves into the titular symbols, whether they're as storied as Indigenous carvings or as ...
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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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January 08, 2019"Fairy Tales are a Sort of Magic in Themselves" Lauren B. Davis on Her Magical Kensington Market Novel
Kensington market is one of Toronto's most unique neighbourhoods, and it's no surprise it has inspired numerous books. Lauren B. Davis' The Grimoire of Kensington Market (Wolsak & Wynn) however, ...
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January 31, 2019A Title Should Be a "Dream in Which the Work Lives": Talking with our February 2019 writer-in-residence Deanna Young
Ottawa poet Deanna Young is the author of four collections of poetry, which have earned her praise and nominations for numerous prizes including the Trillium Book Award for Poetry, the Ottawa Book Award, ...
