Search
-
May 29, 2015What’s Your Vision: Publish or Perish?
Note to self: forget the zeitgeist. Trends are for dolts. What I mean is that when it comes to some writers and their embrace of social media, e-book culture and new audience development there seems to ...
-
May 11, 2021
Don't Write What You Know, Know What You Feel
‘Write what you know,’ must be one of the most common and boring bits of writing advice. I’d say, ‘Don’t worry about what you know – just know what you feel.’You can research most things ...
-
July 06, 2022Beyond Flight: Etta Kaner Helps Kids Love Birds with Her Fascinating, Funny, Strange Book of Bird Habits
Anyone who is or knows a bird lover, knows that bird watching can be its own free, endless source of entertainment. In Etta Kaner's Dig, Dance, Dive: How Birds Move to Survive (Owlkids, illustrated ...
-
June 20, 2017On Writing, with Darryl Whetter
Darryl Whetter's Search Box Bed (Palimpsest Press) brings together poetry, with all its historical associations of love and romance, and new media, with its accompanying online realities of sexual connection ...
-
September 28, 2023Grant writing 101: Writing a budget
Writing a grant budget can be daunting, but I promise it doesn’t have to be! Many writing grants don’t even require budgets (TAC and OAC!), but some grants, including the Canada Council for the Arts ...
-
May 31, 2024Rumie Goes Rafting is a Stunning Debut Where Plush Animals and Real Woodlands Tell the Tale
Lovers of adventure (and puppets!) will delight in reading the latest book by Meghan Marentette. The talented author and artist has worked in a number of mediums, including television, and pairs that ...
-
August 14, 2024Author Sita MacMillan Begins an Essential Series Starring Sarah Ponakey, Storycatcher
It's often the case with young readers, and writers, that they simply do not see the stories that they would like to read and write being published with frequency. This is a distinct problem in CanLit ...
-
November 14, 2024Young Detective Elodie LaRue Hunts for Missing Jewels in Mystery at the Biltmore
With a sterling track record in both writing for young people, and illustrating beloved picturebooks, author Colleen Nelson and illustrator Peggy Collins know how to tell page-turning stories that ...
-
February 26, 2026Panels & Pencils with Dian Day and Amanda White, Creators of SHY CAT AND THE STUFF-THE-BUS CHALLENGE
Friendship, food, and misunderstandings abound in Shy Cat and the Stuff-the-Bus Challenge (Second Story Press), a lively graphic novel by Dian Day and Amanda White about two kids learning to see each ...
-
March 07, 2024Canada Reads 2024 Wrap-Up - The Future by Catherine Leroux Wins the Competition
After four days of passionate debate and discussion, Canada Reads 2024 came to a dramatic conclusion, with The Future by Catherine Leroux (translated by Susan Ouriou) taking the glory. Championed ...
