Columnists
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August 15, 2016The Final Days of Summer Reading
By Stacey May FowlesAs we find ourselves in last gasps of summer (how is it already August?) it’s time to park it on the back porch and really focus on that list of carefully chosen seasonal reads.The summer book really ...
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August 12, 2016Tokenism vs. Inclusion
By Jael Richardson & Illustration by Chelsea CharlesLast month, I wrote a piece about my frustrations with the lack of diversity in Canada’s publishing industry. In the comments, it was mentioned that while some folks are trying to make improvements, ...
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July 11, 201612 Reasons CanLit's Got Me Feeling so Tired
By Jael Richardson & Illustration by Chelsea CharlesI sat through and wandered by a lot of literary industry panels at a recent event where the large majority of the industry panelists were white. And while it’s not an unusual experience in the CanLit ...
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July 07, 2016How to Plan a Book Tour
By Vivek Shraya & Submitted by KevinAs grateful as I am for the vast reach that the internet provides artists, every time I tour I am reminded of the value of real life human connection and interaction. Being able to travel with my art ...
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June 29, 2016On Being Plagiarized
By Stacey May Fowles & Submitted by KevinSubmitted by kevin on June 29, 2016 - 1:36pmAbout a month ago, I came out of a meeting to find a rather strange tweet in my mentions.Someone I had never interacted with before popped up to inform me that ...
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June 27, 2016“These Two Things Are One,” an Interview With Kilby Smith-McGregor
By James Lindsay & Submitted by KevinKilby Smith-McGregor’s debut poetry collection, Kids in Triage, explores the in-betweens that exist just out of sight. Psychology/biology, art/philosophy, literature/legend all expose their connective ...
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June 21, 2016“I Want the Blur in There,” an Interview with Hoa Nguyen.
By James LindsayIn his introduction to Red Juice (poems 1998-2008), Anselm Berrigan describes the poetry of Hoa Nguyen as, “sonic environments made word by word, provoked by lived experience into forms that, as she ...
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June 17, 2016Revenge of the Indie Bookstore
By Vivek Shraya & Submitted by KevinIn 2014, when I began booking my Crushes and Mountains US book tour with fellow Toronto-based writer Elisha Lim, I Googled “gay bookstore” or “independent bookstore” in cities we were planning ...
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June 13, 2016Dismantling Jane Jordan’s Library
By rob mclennan & Submitted by KevinThroughout the process of distributing ten bins of books, chapbooks and other literary materials once owned by Ottawa poet Jane Jordan (1926-2007), there’s a slight guilt attached to dismantling her ...
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June 06, 2016All Roads Lead to Brampton
By Jael Richardson & Submitted by KevinWe’ve been tallying up the responses for surveys from last month’s Festival of Literary Diversity and we’re thrilled by all the feedback – the good and the bad. It’s helpful to know what worked ...
