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June 02, 2020June Writer-in-Residence Helaine Becker on Her Feminist Origin Story, Writing for Kids, and Her Inspiring New Book
If you're a fan of children's publishing, it's very likely you've heard of Helaine Becker. The Toronto-based creator has authored over eighty books for kids of varying ages, garnering accolades along ...
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August 02, 2016The Lucky Seven Interview, with Liam Card
In Stopgap (Dundurn Press) Liam Card brings his screenwriting background to his second novel, creating a tense, otherworldly pageturner with a wildly creative premise. In Stopgap, Luke Stevenson has been ...
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August 24, 2017Michelle Berry's Tense New Novel asks us What Our Final Story Would Be
What story would you tell, if you knew it was the last one you would ever get to share? In Michelle Berry's The Prisoner and The Chaplain (Wolsak & Wynn), one man (the titular prisoner) is telling ...
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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 ...
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February 27, 2020The Entitled Interview: March 2020 Writer-in-Residence Leslie Shimotakahara Finds Inspiration Through Family
Reading Toronto-based author Leslie Shimotakahara, you get the sense that family, and history, have always been important to her work.Her first book, the Canada-Japan Literary Prize-winning The Reading ...
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October 01, 2025Story Sparks and Surprises Interview with Wendy J. Whittingham, author of The Last Last (Illustrated by Brianna McCarthy)
In her debut picture book, The Last Last, author Wendy J. Whittingham invites readers into a tender, sun-soaked farewell to island life through the eyes of a young girl preparing to leave her Jamaican ...
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June 25, 2015The Lucky Seven Interview, with Ken Murray
William Oaks has managed to create the facade of a normal, even dull, man. But when his parents die in a car accident, that facade is shattered, and William's complicated family history, filled with religious ...
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March 11, 2026Ink & Imagination! Willie Poll & Chantelle Trainor-Matties Interview Each Other About A SALMON STORY
The journey of a young fish becomes the heart of A Salmon Story: Protecting the Future (OwlKids Books), a lyrical and informative picture book that traces the life cycle of wild salmon while asking readers ...
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May 30, 2015
The Lucky Seven Interview, with Irina Kovalyova
Irina Kovalyova is an Ivy League-educated scientist, a debut author and, we are very excited to say, our June 2015 writer-in-residence at Open Book!Irina's collection of short stories, Specimen combines ...
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May 20, 2016Domestic Epic: an Interview with Ken Sparling
To fully appreciate the books of CanLit anomaly Ken Sparling, it helps to think of his work as a single statement told from different perspectives. Each book is a unique view, yet every time we meet a ...
