Author: ALU Editor
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Queer Coded: Interview with Keith Maillard
Happy Pride Month! For all of June we will be interviewing queer authors about their work and inspiration. Today we interview Keith Mailard, author of In Defense of Liberty (Freehand Books), and he explains that although his writing is not overtly “queer” his work has always questioned the gender binary. Follow along each week for…
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Asian Heritage Month: Kids Spotlight
It’s the final day of May and of Asian Heritage Month: this one is for the kids! These picture books, graphic novels, and middle-grade novels are sure to delight the young readers in your life.
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Collected Collections: The Anthologized
So far this Short Story Month we’ve featured single-author short story collections; a great way to see a writer grapple with different themes and forms in their craft. As May winds to a close, we’re all about anthologies: multi-author collections that serve up a little bit of everything.
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Under the Cover: A slice of life in The Glint of Light
Storied and award-winning, poet, writer, and professor Clarence Major and his publisher, Matt Joudrey of At Bay Press, share some thoughts about Major’s latest work, The Glint of Light, and its place in the African-American literary canon.
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Poetry in Motion: knee deep in high water
Bronwyn Preece reads from her latest collection knee deep in high water (Caitlin Press). The collection is divided into two-week horse expeditions in the far Northern remote Rocky Mountains. Hear the poem in full by watching the video below.
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Asian Heritage Month: Nonfiction Spotlight
This week for Asian Heritage Month we are sharing six nonfiction titles that provide a deep historical landscape across multiple cultures. Including stories of immigration and resilience, as well as some photographs of historical events.
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Asian Heritage Month: Nonfiction Spotlight
This week for Asian Heritage Month we’re sharing six nonfiction titles that provide a deep historical landscape across multiple cultures. Including stories of immigration and resilience, as well as some photographs of historical events.
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Collected Collections: (Even More) Debuts
There are so many great debut short story collections we couldn’t help but to share more for our Collected Collections series. With imaginative range these authors introduce us to spins on reality that consider loneliness, loss, and resilience.
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Queer Coded: Interview with Kimia Eslah
Today marks the date of our first Queer Coded interview! We’re thrilled we got the chance to talk with Kimia Eslah, author of Sister Seen, Sister Heard (Roseway Publishing), about how queerness is reflective in her writing process and how representing forms of systemic discrimination is important to her.
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Character Study: Big Shadow
The latest author to don our casting director’s cap is Marta Balcewicz, whose debut novel about art and power dynamics Big Shadow (Book*hug Press) gets the Hollywood treatment. See which actors Marta has chosen to play the naive-but-rapidly maturing Judy and has-been poetry scenester Maurice Blunt, among the other main characters in the novel.
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Asian Heritage Month: Drama Spotlight (with guest recommender David Yee!)
We’re thrilled to have David Yee as our Asian Heritage Month guest recommender this week: the Dora- and GG-nominated playwright and actor shares eight plays that are sure to make your reading a little more dramatic. (Note, our why you should read its should also be read as why you should see its this time!)
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Collected Collections: From the Fantastic
Today’s trio of featured short story collections are indeed fantastic – favourably reviewed and award-nominees to boot – but also fantastic. These collections let the short story form do its best work in introducing concepts and characters that are wonderfully weird – and dare we say, fantastical – in ways that might not work in a full-length novel.
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Writer’s Block: Catherine Graham
We interview award-winning author Catherine Graham about what led her to writing and about her most rewarding experience of being a writer. Check out Graham’s latest release, Put Flowers Around Us and Pretend We’re Dead(Wolsak & Wynn).
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Writer’s Block: Catherine Graham
We interview award-winning author Catherine Graham about what led her to writing and about her most rewarding experience of being a writer. Check out Graham’s latest release, Put Flowers Around Us and Pretend We’re Dead(Wolsak & Wynn).
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You’re Not Superwoman and That’s Okay
In honour of Mother’s Day, we’re excited to share an essay from Erin Pepler’s incisive and hilarious collection Send Me Into the Woods Alone: Essays on Motherhood (Invisible Publishing). Moms of the world: read and commiserate (and children and partners of the world, read and take note).