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February 27, 2023Stuart Ross Creates a Place for a Weirder, Wilder, More Innovative CanLit with 1366 Books
The rules for what a novel or short story can—or must—be have been in flux since the forms first began. And yet, truly out-of-the-box fiction and successful formal experimentation is hard to find. ...
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September 14, 2023The Pull of Two Needles
My first version of this essay was about how my two obsessions, knitting and writing, don’t compete with each other. I wrote at length about how they spin together in my brain in complicated steps, ...
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January 24, 2024Nicholas Ruddock & Ashley Barron Show Tenderness to Tiny Fragile Snakes, and Other Creatures
It's always fun and insightful to have picture book authors featured on Open Book, but we're doubly lucky today to share this conversation between author Nicholas Ruddock and illustrator Ashley Barron. ...
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August 23, 2024Breaking Down the Ontario Arts Council’s Literary Creation Projects Grant
For writers in Ontario, this is your reminder that the deadline for Literary Creation Projects (Works for Publication) is just around the corner. This grant gives $12,000 to work on your novel, poetry ...
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August 18, 2025The Irrepressible Maggie Lou Returns in a New Chapter Book from Arnolda Dufour Bowes
Today, we’re delighted to feature an exciting new chapter book in Maggie Lou Meets Her Match (Groundwood Books), the lively sequel to Maggie Lou, Firefox by Arnolda Dufour Bowes. As we kick off this ...
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January 05, 2018"Poems are Like People When it Comes to Goodbyes": Talking with Debut Poet Margo LaPierre
If you've ever worn make up, you know what raccoon eyes are - the result of smearing dark eye make up across your face, the telltale sign of a night out that went either way too well or quite the opposite.The ...
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July 11, 2016Five Things Literary: Ottawa, with Monty Reid
Ontario is a literary province in every sense — it's chockablock with historically significant points of interest that anyone can visit, but it's also full of seemingly simple local spots beloved by ...
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January 16, 2017This Was the Countryside
In Buttermere, the land hugs the lakes. Some of the lakes contain islands. Some of these islands are so small, they lack roots. They bounce from point to point, as slowly as fingernails grow. To make ...
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April 10, 2018Lenea Grace on Proving Canada Exists in Her Debut Poetry Collection
Lenea Grace's debut collection of poetry A Generous Latitude (ECW Press) leans into Canadiana by mining one of our traditional natural resources: wry wit. Her poems are smart and tight and their humour ...
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April 20, 2018Dream Space: an interview with A. Light Zachary
A. Light Zachary is a writer in Toronto, an editor with The Puritan, and the host of a local reading series. Their poetry has appeared in over 30 magazines and anthologies & won the E. J. Pratt ...
