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February 24, 2025
Grant Writing 101: Timelines
You’ve got an idea, you’ve got working title, maybe you’ve even got a beta reader, or a mentor lined up. You’ve got your budget planned out (and know how many days/weeks or hours your project ...
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February 19, 2025
Writing Lessons Learned From Zines
In my early twenties, my friend Teri Vlassopoulos introduced me to zines and it changed my life. If you’re not familiar with the term, ZineWiki defines a zine as “an independently- or self-published ...
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February 12, 2025
Tea Gerbeza Challenges Ableist Perceptions of Normalcy in How I Bend Into More
Among the many complex themes in Tea Gerbeza's work, reclaiming disabled identity, disability justice, and disabled and queer joy are just a sampling. These concerns and more find their way onto the ...
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February 10, 2025
Historian Steven High Unpacks the Surprising Early-Nineties Triumph and Collapse of Bob Rae's NDP
As the current political climate in North America continues to shift and evolve, there have been clear signs that the dominant forms of conservatism and liberalism from the late 20th century are finding ...
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February 05, 2025
Creator Conversations: Leila Boukarim & Ruaida Mannaa talk Sundays Are For Feasts
When it comes to picture books, collaboration is everything, and we're always thrilled to have both the author and illustrator of one of our featured titles in conversation, and to learn more about the ...
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January 30, 2025
Audiobook Magic
Poetry books rarely come in audio format, and perhaps this is the reason it’s taken me until 2025 to discover the magic of audiobooks. In 2024, I began writing more fiction after several years of focusing ...
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January 28, 2025
Grant Writing 101: Support Material
When I’m not writing books, I write grants for artists and non-profits and if my inbox is any indication, nothing says the new year like applying for grants! Let’s start 2025 with some grant funding!!!For ...
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January 24, 2025
Read an Excerpt from The Earth Bleeds at Night, the Chilling New Anthology from Eerie River Publishing
We're kicking off the new year by welcoming some new members to the Ontario Book Publishing Organization, and one of those exciting presses is Eerie River Publishing, who specialize in high-quality anthologies. One ...
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January 24, 2025
CBC Canada Reads Announces the 2025 Finalists and This Year's Literary Champions
The Canada Reads 2025 shorlist is here!This morning, CBC Books announced the finalists for the competition, in which they were "looking for one book to change the narrative." As stated on the Canada Reads ...
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January 22, 2025
Find Your Pathway to Becoming a Successful Professional Writer with The Feisty Freelancer by Suzanne Bowness
Author and freelance expert Suzanne Bowness created her first writing business over 20 years ago, and has worked independently since then. As a career path, professional writing is eminently rewarding ...