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    Banner image with an illustrated background of farmland and mountains. Foreground has a photo of writer Sara Truuvert and text reading Interview with Sara Truuvert A great book...honours young people’s imaginations and emotions and invites interpretation. Open Book logo bottom left
    October 06, 2023

    Sara Truuvert Explores a Child's View of Japanese Internment in Her Moving First Picture Book

    In Japanese folklore, a baku is a chimeric creature that children can call on to protect them from bad dreams – an eater of nightmares. In fiction writer and poet Sara Truuvert's first picture book Mira ...

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    Banner image with photo of writer Jessica Westhead and wooded background. Text reads "interview with Jessica Westhead. My favourite characters to write are people who lack self-awareness”. Open Book logo bottom left
    September 18, 2023

    Jessica Westhead on Balancing Absurdity, Sensitivity, & Insight in Her Exploration of White Privilege

    Just last week saw the launch of Avalanche (Invisible Publishing), a new story collection from Jessica Westhead. One of Canada's most innovative short fiction writers, Westhead has long crafted memorable ...

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    Just because I don’t “look” like an editor...
    December 30, 2020

    Just because I don’t “look” like an editor...

    Just because I don’t “look” like an editor... I remember the first time I went to pick up the mail from our post office box, when I was the managing editor at Room magazine, and was told by one ...

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