Columnists
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October 26, 2020You, Too, Can Be a Mediocre YouTube Star
By Naseem HrabA few fun facts about me: When I was about five-years-old, I starred as Dopey in a production of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs at camp and killed it. Everyone was laughing. I also studied improv for ...
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October 21, 2020How to Engage Online
By Waubgeshig RiceOnline engagement is a reality of the modern writer’s life. It’s rare now for an author to create a story in solitude, and then remain there once their book is out in the world. Digital media now ...
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October 19, 2020Book Therapy: Lorna Crozier’s Through the Garden
By Stacey May Fowles“The world is violent and mercurial—it will have its way with you. We are saved only by love--love for each other and the love that we pour into the art we feel compelled to share: being a parent; ...
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October 16, 2020Poets Becoming Novelists: On Trusting Leaps and Fragments
By Shazia Hafiz RamjiI finished the first draft of my novel in mid-March – in the first week of isolation. I hadn’t grasped the gravity of the pandemic then, so I was grateful for the sudden reprieve from the real world. ...
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October 14, 2020Natasha Ramoutar: On Full Circles and First Books
By Sheniz JanmohamedLess than a month ago, Natasha Ramoutar published Bittersweet, her first book of poems, with Mawenzi House. Less than a month ago, I celebrated the ten year publishing anniversary of my first book, Bleeding ...
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October 08, 2020On Querying into an Apocalypse
By A.H. Reaume"I feel so cooped up in my house with this smoke and the moths that keep flying by my window. Is a weekend really a weekend in 2020 if it doesn't include plague, pestilence, and Hell fire?" - @a_h_reaumeI ...
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September 18, 2020How writing rituals saved me from quitting as a writer
By Chelene KnightI define my writing ritual as a series of unique actions taken that tells my brain it’s writing and creation time. This is part preparation, part boundary-setting, part protective aura. I know that ...
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September 11, 2020Stories of the North
By Waubgeshig RiceThere’s no consensus on where Southern Ontario ends and Northern Ontario begins. Some say the French River north of Parry Sound is the unofficial border. Others believe the north begins at the town ...
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September 09, 2020Book Therapy: Farzana Doctor’s Seven
By Stacey May Fowles“As I slip into slumber, listening to my girl breathing beside me, a sensation of well being settles over my skin like a silk sheet.”-Farzana Doctor, SevenThe closer we got to September, the less ...
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September 03, 2020How To Become That Kind of Bitch (or, One-Night Stands and New Selves)
By Shazia Hafiz RamjiBefore the pandemic, I had a one-night stand with a person I met at a rave, Tyler. The morning after we slept together, I was buttering my toast and he began to ask probing questions about my life and ...
