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February 14, 2016Something Totally New: Part One of Stephen Thomas in Conversation
I first came across Stephen Thomas on Twitter. It was 2012 and I’d started doing this embarrassing YouTube show no one watched called A Chat With Jess. Steve was doing something similar while doing ...
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July 28, 2017the book of ayâs: the importance of nêhiyawêwin (Cree)
kinêhiyawêwininaw tâpiskôc kakîkêkamik[our creeness is like a forever house]itê kaki-kakîkê-pawâtayahk[where we can forever dream] I wrote this today, thinking about old stories, and old places. ...
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February 27, 2017The Dirty Dozen, with our March writer-in-residence, Zoe Whittall!
Zoe Whittall was already an acclaimed novelist, poet, and television writer in Canada and beyond before her latest novel, The Best Kind of People (House of Anansi Press) exploded onto the literary scene, ...
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February 05, 2025Creator 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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May 12, 2023Read an Excerpt from Discipline n.v by Concetta Principe, a Wry Lyric Memoir of Navigating Academia's Prejudices
The academic world's nickname—the Ivory Tower—is meant to communicate that it's an environment where scholars can be cut off from everyday concerns while they pursue deep knowledge. But that removal ...
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October 14, 2017
The Writer in the World: Love, Write, Resist, Heal, Part Two with Alicia Elliot
A Conversation with Alicia Elliot, Part TwoCL: To continue from where we left off: Have you considered the book-length poem? This is not to suggest book-length poems are long-winded, though. Jokes aside, ...
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October 11, 2017The Writer in the World: Love, Write, Resist, Heal, Part One with Alicia Elliot
A Conversation With Alicia Elliot: Part OneCanisia Lubrin: Many writers over time have expressed the sentiment that the writer, in order to write, is always at odds with their society. This appears, ...
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November 20, 2017Joey Comeau on Scholastic Book Fairs, Anne Rice, and the Book He Has Read Again and Again
Joey Comeau has always excelled in combining the sad and hilarious, whether in his books of collected cover letters, Overqualified and Overqualifieder, or in his cult favourite webcomic, A Softer ...
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July 22, 2019Thomas Leduc's Debut Poetry Collection Examines Family, Transformation, & Northern Ontario's Evolving Identity
Thomas Leduc's autobiographical debut poetry collection, Slagflower: Poems Unearthed From a Mining Town (Latitude 46 Publishing), delves into a unique family story: four generations of miners, the ...
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September 12, 2019Marie-Louise Gay's Celebration of Young Readers' Imaginations in Fern and Horn: "You Have Your Unique Wonderful Way of Seeing the World"
In Fern and Horn (Groundwood Books), the titular twins Fern and Horn might be small, but their imaginations are huge. Fern loves drawing and helps Horn unlock his love of drawing too - the only trouble ...