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September 21, 2023I’ve been invited to present at a literary festival, now what?
From the Brigadoon-esque setting of The Eden Mills Writer Festival to the hustle and bustle of TIFA Kids, it’s literary festival season. Everyone loves an invite to a party, but make sure you have all ...
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October 25, 2023Naben Ruthnum on His Delightfully Creepy YA Horror Debut, a Spooky Love Letter to the 90s
Behind the facade of small towns lurk many things – something high schooler Vish knows all too well in acclaimed author Naben Ruthnum's first foray into young adult fiction, The Grimmer (ECW Press).Vish's ...
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December 20, 2023The Transition to Short Stories (as a poet)
I’ve spent years now honing my craft as a poet. I know how to edit individual poems, as well as to approach and rewrite entire manuscripts. Why did the need to do the same in fiction seem so daunting ...
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January 05, 2024An Ode to Writing Research
I have realized that second only to holding a bound book in my hands, my favourite part of writing a book is the research. I love choosing worlds that I don’t know much about—rare books libraries, ...
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March 27, 2025Readers Will be Spellbound by The Seated Woman, the New Poetry Collection from Clémence Dumas-Coté
In her previous works, Clémence Dumas-Coté has captivated readers with richly-layered, immersive poems that linger long after they have been read. Based in the Eastern Townships of Quebec, her writing ...
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April 08, 2026A Short-Lived Community Lingers Long After it is Gone in TEMPORARY PALACES
A short-lived community leaves a long afterlife in Temporary Palaces (House of Anansi Press), a debut novel from Jeff Miller that circles back to one summer and ponders what, exactly, remains from that ...
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August 31, 2018On the future of Canlit
You guys, this is my last Open Book column.I have been writing this column for a year now and I’ll admit I didn’t know what I was going to write about when Holly Kent and Kevin Hardcastle asked me ...
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April 29, 2026Read an Excerpt from Some Fascinating New Nonfiction in READING WITH MY GRANDMOTHER
Personal archive and literary study dovetail in Reading with My Grandmother (Wilfrid Laurier University Press), a new nonfiction title from author and academic Lindsay Diehl that shifts gears deftly ...
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May 06, 2026The Illustrator's Studio with Brittany Lane - TAKING TURNS WITH TURTLES: A RESCUE STORY
Before the sun is fully up, people are already walking the shoreline, scanning the sand for signs of life in Taking Turns with Turtles: A Rescue Story (Groundwood Books). The work is quiet but urgent, ...
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December 27, 2017Reading Books While Desperately Avoiding Loneliness
There was a tree surrounded by countless of its kind, but also all alone, as the only one alive. Its nearby kin debarked and digested, steamed into slop, robbed of their resin and lignin, cleaned, screened, ...
