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December 17, 2025Read an Excerpt from HIDE AND SIKH, the New Memoir from Sunny Dhillon
After leaving his job at The Globe and Mail in 2018, Sunny Dhillon published a blog post explaining his decision. It struck a nerve, circulating widely and inspiring conversation about race, belonging, ...
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January 16, 2026A Young Girl Faces Her Fears to Reconnect with Sound in WHEN BRYN'S EAR WENT QUIET
Open Book will be publishing a few special previews of upcoming titles this season, and today we're featuring When Bryn's Ear Went Quiet (Owlkids Books), an evocative new picture book from celebrated ...
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February 20, 2026Ray Robertson Defends the Act of Independent Thinking in THE RIGHT TO BE WRONG
In an era that prizes certainty and punishes dissent, disagreement has begun to feel like a moral failure. Prolific author Ray Robertson's new nonfiction title, The Right to Be Wrong (Cormorant Books), ...
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March 10, 2026PRECEDENCE by Pujita Verma Makes a Case for the Importance of Being Heard
Precedence (Brick Books) begins with a real legal case that brings a young woman back home to face her father in a Canadian courtroom. The experience is shaped by distance, family history, and the limits ...
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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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March 31, 2026Author and Journalist Moira Welsh Explores THE ASTONISHING LIVES OF OLDER WOMEN
Growing older brings new freedoms, but also new pressures, especially when financial security is uncertain. The Astonishing Lives of Older Women (ECW Press) looks closely at what many women face later ...
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January 15, 2020The Craft of Reading: How Reading 260 Books This Year Made Me a Better Writer
I was making a care package for a writer friend recently and wanted to include a book in it.“What have you been dying to read?” I asked her before heading out to the bookstore.“Fever Dream by Samanta ...
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September 27, 2018Coming to Voice
I worked on this piece while at a residency for BIPOC writers in the fall of 2017. I did not pick it up again when I returned. While workshopping it there, I was not convinced it captured what I was trying ...
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June 05, 2017The 2017 Griffin Prize nominees on Poetry & Favourite Reads
The Griffin Poetry Prize counts amongst its past winners some of the most lauded, beloved, and respected names in poetry. Icons like Anne Carson, Paul Muldoon, and P.K. Page are just a few of those ...
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April 10, 2021Raise your shields: performance boundaries for poets
Thanks so much to everyone who reached out to say that Thursday’s post resonated with you. Today we’re building on our poet boundaries by extending them from the Internet to the stage—before, during, ...
