Prolific award-winning poet, writer, playwright, and editor Gary Geddes returns with a new collection,  The Oysters I Bring to Banquets (Guernica Editions). We read two elegiac poems from the collection below, with introductions from the poet himself.

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, and that's why we're bringing you today a unique egg recipe from the author of Valley of the Rats (Cormorant Books) – Mahtab Narsimhan.  Are you ready to eat scrambled eggs that go great with fried mushrooms, a slice ... Read more

Looking to add a little Province-based pedigree to your TBR, or just read more from your own backyard? We've rounded up the independently-published winners and nominees from literary awards all across Canada to make it easier than ever.

Academic, translator, and the founder of the Tamil Studies Symposium Nedra Rodrigo writes of the conflict in Sri Lanka, border crossings, and how to cope, through a series of vignettes on “tape” through the decades. Rodrigo, whose published translations include His Sacred ... Read more

In observance of Tamil Genocide Education Week in Ontario, translator Geetha Sukumaran shares a conversation with Tamil poet Ahlian (her translation of his book, Then There Were No Witnesses, was published in 2018), about the Jaffna Clock Tower as a conduit of childhood ... Read more

Author of the upcoming novel The Wards, we chat with writer Terry Doyle about his short story collection  Dig (Breakwater Books) - featuring St. John's, NL-ers struggling amidst the everyday, and read an ominous excerpt from his story, "Squat."

H. Felix Chau Bradley's collection  Personal Attention Roleplay (Metonymy Press) was recently named a finalist for the 2021 Danuta Gleed Literary Award for short stories. Read on to see why Felix says "writing a short story often feels like solving a puzzle" and catch ... Read more

Poetry Muse kicks off with Daniel Lockhart, author of  Go Down Odawa Way (Kegedonce Press). D.A Lockhart describes his poetry collection as "history decolonized turned lyric, left to sing of and celebrate what is given to us by our history and our collective survival".   ... Read more

In this week's edition of Women Crush Wednesday, discover these talented fiction authors published by Inanna Publications, ARP, Turnstone Press, Cormorant Books, Thistledown Press, Roseway Publishing, Book*Hug Press, and Breakwater Books. 

Leah Horlick's Moldovan Hotel (Brick Books) explores the intergenerational trauma of the Holocaust in Romania through a queer Jewish voice in the Diaspora. Below we share two poems from her collection!