Columnists
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October 17, 2016
New Fall 2016 Children’s and YA Books! Part 2
By Susan HughesToday, I’m continuing my fun chat with five authors of exciting fall 2016 hot-off-the-press children’s books, including a picture book, a chapter book, a middle grade novel, a nonfiction book, and ...
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October 07, 2016How to keep a small chapbook press alive for twenty-three years (a primer)
By rob mclennanBy the time you read this, above/ground press will most likely be two or three items away from an accumulated eight hundred publications. How does that happen? Even I find it strange and remarkable that ...
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October 05, 2016How To Make a Great Book Cover
By Vivek Shraya & Illustration by Karen Campos CastilloThe most important lesson I learned when I self-published my first book was that readers do judge a book by its cover. This is often framed as negative but as author and illustrator Annie Mok recently ...
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September 28, 2016Don’t Know Much About History: Memoir Crazy
By Dalton HigginsLiterary fiction and poetry are cool, but non fiction biographies are becoming cooler. Again. Some of us bookish geeks and authors tend to spend an inordinate amount of time tracking publishing industry ...
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September 20, 2016
New Fall 2016 Children's and YA Books! Part 1
By Susan HughesI’m delighted to be starting off my kid lit blog this season with a fun chat with five authors of exciting hot-off-the-press children’s books, including a picture book, a chapter book, a middle grade ...
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September 14, 2016Profile on Show and Tell Poetry Series, with a Few Questions
By rob mclennanShow and Tell Poetry Series is a new reading series in Peterborough that features local emerging and established poets from Peterborough and beyond, held at Curated in the Charlotte Mews (203 Simcoe ...
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September 09, 20166 Reasons to Go to a Canadian Litfest
By Jael RichardsonWhile kids enjoy the first days of school, September also marks the start of the busiest season on the CanLit calendar. There are book launches and reading series and literary award announcements galore. ...
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September 06, 2016September: My Season of Jealousy
By Vivek Shraya & Illustration by Karen Campos CastilloSeptember marks the beginning of award announcements and big fall book launches. In recent years, September has also marked the beginning of my season of jealousy. I feel apprehensive typing these words ...
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August 31, 2016The Lower Reaches of Pulp
By Naben RuthnumIt’s rare for me to be disturbed by a book: usually, I enjoy being scared or pushed to an extreme emotion within the safety of a page. But I was badly bothered by a pulp novel from the 1980s that I ...
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August 25, 2016When I Read a Really Amazing Poem It Feels like It's Working Some Sort of Magic on Me, an Interview with Cassidy Mcfadzean
By James LindsayHacker Packer, the debut collection from Cassidy McFadzean, is a wild destination wedding between the colloquial and the archaic. So much is happening at this party, one is tempted to slow down, even ...
