Columnists
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August 02, 2017Gwaandak
By Lily QuanThis started off as a straightforward article about Gwaandak Theatre, Yukon’s only Indigenous theatre company. But something went wrong. Or right.I wanted to feature Gwaandak’s production, Map of ...
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July 31, 2017An Interview with David O’Meara, organizer of the Plan 99 Reading Series
By Ben LadouceurIn the Manx Pub, a basement bar on Ottawa’s Elgin St., there’s a slim shelf of books – lots of poetry, but also some prose. The books are often browsed, often borrowed, and often returned. They’re ...
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July 27, 2017An Interview With Catriona Wright
By James Lindsay“You start to realize just how culturally constructed ideas of the edible vs. inedible are."Among the themes poets tend to shy away from, gastronomy lives somewhere at the top alongside rent and debt. ...
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July 19, 2017Fifth Business; First-Person Shooter - Whither the Great Video Game Adaptation?
By Evan MundayWhen an author mentions a book adaptation, the next question the author fields is invariably about casting. The book adaptation is assumed to be a film or television series. After all, books have provided ...
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July 07, 2017Here’s to Summer! - A Reading List
By Stacey May FowlesUsually when the warmer months of the year are upon us, our minds turn to all of that fun, relaxing reading we’ve been putting off. There’s just something about summer that makes us fantasize about ...
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June 21, 2017Meritocracy in a Pale World
By Cherie DimalineInevitably, I find myself having this conversation:“Why does there always have to be preference or segregation? We should all be judged together and that the best literature will naturally rise to the ...
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June 15, 2017Combatting Oppression With Community
By Jael RichardsonTwo months ago, I attended Fuel for Fire, a professional development conference for writers of colour, organized by the Ontario Arts Council. The event provided a venue for discussions about writing and ...
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May 24, 2017Happy Birthday, Marian Engel!
By Ben LadouceurToday is the eighty-fourth birthday of Marian Engel, or it would be, had the novelist not died of cancer in 1985. Now, instead of a person, she is a name, survived like all people by her family and friends, ...
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May 19, 2017
Kid Lit Can: Personal "Firsts" In Kid Lit, Part Two
By Susan HughesWelcome back to my conversation with five amazing authors about their “firsts” in children’s publishing.Just to catch you up: Naseem Hrab is pleased to have her first picture book published; Suzanne ...
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May 17, 2017“What If Everyone Is Having the Same Thoughts, but in a Different Order?” an Interview with Suzannah Showler
By James LindsayThing Is, the latest collection of poetry from Suzannah Showler, shares a tone that fits somewhere between the quirky intellect of This American Life and the dream-logic ambles of Sleep with Me. It ...
