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October 20, 2025Writing Protagonists Who Don’t Care If You Like Them
As writers, we want our readers to connect with our protagonists, to root for them and relate to them. It makes sense – human connection is at the heart of storytelling. If a reader just utterly hates ...
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October 20, 2025Read an Excerpt from TAKE A BREATH OLIVE TRAN by Phuong Truong (Illustrated by Christine Wei)
We're very excited to feature an excerpt from the second entry in an acclaimed series for young readers with Take a Breath Olive Tran by Phuong Truong! The school’s biggest event of the year is around ...
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October 21, 2025Brit Griffin's Latest Novel is a Haunting Gothic Mystery in the Northern Ontario Wilderness
In The Haunting of Modesto O’Brien, author Brit Griffin transports readers deep into the northern wilderness with a gothic mystery that thrums with danger, magic, and raw emotion. Set in 1907, the novel ...
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December 15, 2025Christine Quintana's AS ABOVE Finds Connection in Unexpected Places
In our featured title today, As Above (Playwrights Canada Press) A woman in recovery tries to rebuild a life shaped by loss, regret, and long-held silence. Jo is in her sixties, newly sober, and far ...
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January 28, 2026Read an Excerpt from ARAB TECHNO FOR THE PEOPLE, a Fascinating Work of Cultural Nonfiction by Jillian Fulton-Melanson
In clubs, basements, and late-night dance floors across Toronto and Montreal, electronic music becomes more than sound. Throughout the pages of Arab Techno for the People: Sonic Responses to Orientalism ...
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January 14, 2017Valentine's Shadow
The terrible weight of Valentine's Day is exactly one month away. What better way to celebrate its inexorable gravity than to discuss one of those topics rarely discussed in relation to the writing ...
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September 07, 2017CanLit is a Raging Dumpster Fire
We’ve all said it, heard it, or, more than likely, done both at some point in the past year and a half. In fact, it would seem that dissatisfaction with the state of CanLit, strangely enough, is the ...
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November 05, 2017Considering life noir
This grey November Sunday afternoon, we will be discussing writing about life noir and I’m honoured to be joined by the amazing Lynn Crosbie. I’m such a huge fan of everything Lynn has written and ...
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October 26, 2017Wolsak & Wynn Editorial Board: Jen Sookfong Lee & Canisia Lubrin Discuss Strengthening CanLit with Diverse Voices
Wolsak & Wynn is one of Canada's most dynamic independent publishers, with a stable of authors including Gary Barwin, Michelle Berry, Erín Moure, and Ian Williams, to name just a few. Since 1983, ...
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November 24, 2011So You Think You Can Dance Write?
An investigation of the writing of characters engaged in the physical act of dancing for an extended period of time in poetry and fiction by Nathaniel G. MooreHow does a writer choreograph the movement ...
