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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 ...
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June 08, 2016A Few of Brian Morgan's Favourite Things
When I first showed up at The Walrus with my fussy little comics, drawn with my fidgety little markers, all Brian Morgan, art director extraordinaire, did was smile kindly. The next time I saw him, though, ...
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July 05, 2016Chasing Ghosts at Four in the Morning
I can only write fiction before dawn. Part of that is simple adaptive behaviour: most of the past two decades have been filled with children and day jobs that happen, by definition, during the day. The ...
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June 05, 2016Smoky Garden Songs - a playlist for writing
So much of writing is creating the right mood, the right place. Do you need absolute silence? Do you like a bustling coffee shop?Well, I asked Damian Rogers, whose recent book of poetry Dear Leader blew ...
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June 23, 2016Kevin Hardcastle & Soraya Peerbaye Win 2016 Trillium Book Awards
Open Book is thrilled to announce that our own Kevin Hardcastle, Open Book Toronto's Assistant Editor, has won the $20,000 2016 Trillium Book Award for his debut short fiction collection, Debris (Biblioasis). ...
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June 02, 2016
A Perfect Dinner Party is Just Like a Good Book
A perfect dinner party is just like a good bookSo you wrote a book. Amazing! Ready or not, it’s now time to be among people. It’s very possible that you are going to have to plan events. You’re ...
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June 10, 2016On Writing, with James Laxer
Three men shaped one of the most influential decades of North American history. John A. Macdonald, Abraham Lincoln, and Thomas Jefferson, each an icon in his own right, all contributed in ways that are ...
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February 02, 2016Poets in Profile: Majlinda Bashllari
Majlinda Bashllari published her first poetry collection in Albania in 2007. Less than ten years later the Toronto-based poet has released her first English language collection, Love is a very long word ...
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January 14, 2016The Entitled Interview with Phil Hall
Drawing on the wilds of rural Ontario and his own family and artistic mythology as inspiration, Phil Hall's four decades of poetic invention have influenced countless other Canadian poets. Often called ...
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April 14, 2011
A Poetry Love-In: The Poetry In Voice Recitation Finals
Someone, I think it was Robert Bly, said you feel a good poem all along your body, which probably explains the goose bumps I got when I attended the Poetry In Voice/Les voix de la poésie recitation finals ...