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February 06, 2025Gwen Lamont's Young Self Writes Her Way Home in The View From Coffin Ridge
As an academic with a deep understanding of the impact of trauma, Gwen Lamont used what she had learned from her own life to bridge the gap between her story and those that she studied and researched. ...
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February 18, 2025Fascinating and Notorious Mining Mogul Viola MacMillan Has Her Story Told in Windfall
Canada's history in the mining industry contains many stunning and nefarious stories that most are unaware of. Around many of our Ontario cities and towns, for example, there are streets, neighbourhoods, ...
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April 24, 2025A Thousand Tiny Awakenings is an Anthology That Carries the Hope and Resilence of a New Generation
Independent Ontario publishers continue to amplify the voices of young and marginalized writers, and one of our most interesting new publishing houses, out of mighty Sudbury, has played a significant ...
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August 20, 2025RJ Races Against the Ticking Clock to Make the Perfect Father's Day Cards in Ian Duncan's New Picture Book
RJ is on a mission: he’s got just 30 minutes to make Father’s Day cards for his two amazing dads. As the seconds tick by, RJ’s determination turns into panic. With glue, glitter, and construction ...
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August 21, 2025Francis Dupuis-Déri Explores an Infamous Crime that Haunts Academia in KILLER ALTHUSSER: THE BANALITY OF MEN
Today we feature a book that explores a shocking true cime story, and one that remains as troublesome and telling some forty years after the act. in November 1980, the world-famous Marxist philosopher ...
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October 01, 2025Story Sparks and Surprises Interview with Wendy J. Whittingham, author of The Last Last (Illustrated by Brianna McCarthy)
In her debut picture book, The Last Last, author Wendy J. Whittingham invites readers into a tender, sun-soaked farewell to island life through the eyes of a young girl preparing to leave her Jamaican ...
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May 24, 2024A Discussion of Blasphemy and Other Ancestors: 4 Novellas by Padgett Powell, Darius James, Lee Henderson, & Jean Marc Ah-Sen
"It's the fate that awaits us all," says Jean Marc Ah-Sen of the four novellas in Blasphemy and Other Ancestors (Gordon Hill Press), written by him, Padgett Powell, Darius James, and Lee Henderson, explaining ...
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November 14, 2025The Captivating Thriller EARWORM Chronicles a Young Woman's Battle Against Oppression
In his spectacular new play, Earworm (Playwrights Canada Press), Mohammad Yaghoubi delivers a haunting and deeply human story about memory, trauma, and the uneasy search for freedom. The novel follows ...
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January 14, 2026Dani Netherclift Tries to Capture the Shape of Absent Bodies in VESSEL
Our featured title today, Vessel: The Shape of Absent Bodies (Assembly Press), is a unique, genre-bending work of memoir, literature, history, and translation by a very exciting author who writes ...
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June 14, 2022"Even Staring Out the Window Has Changed" The 2022 Griffin Prize Poets Speak in Depth on Their Writing Lives
This year, there are ten writers and translators nominated for the Griffin Poetry Prizes. The two prizes—one open to collections authored by Canadian poets and one open to any international collection ...
