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February 25, 2016Tiny Rooms of One's Own: Part 1 of Four New Writers to Watch - Faith Arkorful, Sofia Mostaghimi, Noor Naga, and Kristel Jax.
As I developed my writing over the years, I had many teachers and people in the community support my work and offer me encouragement. It’s always been important for me to give back and encourage talent ...
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September 01, 2015Everyone Loves Differently - Loving Science from a Safe Distance
I heard a story about Richard Feynman, the Nobel Prize winning physicist. Or maybe I read it. I can’t remember, and I can’t track it down now, but I love the story a great deal, and I think that it’s ...
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October 19, 2014
On Writing, with Aisha Sasha John
Aisha Sasha John, our November 2014 writer-in-residence, has been called "a poet of centrifugal energy, of reverberant intimacy" (Michael Nardone).She's back this spring with her second book, the follow ...
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November 22, 2011The Proust Questionnaire, with Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, also known as the Yarn Harlot, is the author of All Wound Up (Simon & Schuster Canada). Her hugely popular knitting blog receives more than 40,000 visitors per month.In her ...
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November 30, 2014With Jazmine V K Carr
Aisha Sasha John with Jazmine V K Carr on SoundCloudHere I connect with the force that is artist Jazmine V K Carr. Near the end we get sidelined by cigarettes, joined by Marvin and Fiona, two simultaneous ...
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June 06, 2016All Roads Lead to Brampton
We’ve been tallying up the responses for surveys from last month’s Festival of Literary Diversity and we’re thrilled by all the feedback – the good and the bad. It’s helpful to know what worked ...
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November 30, 2014
With Katrice Dustin: a P. for F. (Part III)
AI_SHA – with Katrice Dustin: a P. for F. (Part III) Can you participate in fashion if you don't have money? Katrice answers. And later I wile out talking about the transformative power of clothes. Some ...
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September 04, 2015
A Literary Will
There have been many articles written lately about literature’s power to improve empathy, to lead us to happiness, and there have even been essays that suggest that reading can make us better people. ...
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June 03, 2015And Then They Were upon Her...
If you’ve never heard of Shirley Jackson or read her sensational short story "The Lottery," you should stop doing whatever you’re doing and read it at once.When “The Lottery” was published on ...
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June 03, 2016Debut Poet Liz Howard and American Norman Dubie Awarded the 2016 Griffin Poetry Prizes
Last night in Toronto, American poet Norman Dubie and Canadian — and debut — poet Liz Howard were awarded the prestigious Griffin Poetry Prizes.Dubie won the International Prize for his collection ...
