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

Today on the blog we are joined by Charlie Petch, author of  Why I Was Late (Brick Books). Charlie Petch (they/them, he/him) is a disabled/queer/transmasculine multidisciplinary artist who resides in Tkaronto/Toronto. In our Q&A, Charlie shares a poem from his new collection, ... Read more

Today on Poetry Muse, we are featuring emerging poet Aurore Gatwenzi's debut poetry collection — Gold Pours (Latitude 46). In her collection, Gatwenzi shares the experience of being young and Black in northern Ontario. In our Q&A she shares how she began writing in ... Read more

In her debut collection of poetry Gold Pours (Latitude 46 Publishing), Aurore Gatwenzi illuminates the experience of being young and Black in northern Ontario, with poems that "talk about God, identity, heartbreak and passion." Below, we share two pieces from the collection, ... Read more

Spanning a period of 25 years, the poems in Jean Eng's Festival of All Souls (Inanna Publications) explore the life of an Asian woman born in Canada and the experience of living between two cultures where heritage, gender and values serve to enrich personal vision.

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This week in the Indie Reading Room is B.C.-based poet P.C. Vandall whose fourth collection of poetry The Blue Moth of Morning (The Porcupine's Quill) shines a light on female relationships: embracing and subverting clichés of female connection, the poems in this collection ... Read more

One of Canada's revered and award-winning Indigenous authors, Richard Van Camp is this week's Indie Reading Room author with his 20th anniversary special edition of  Angel Wing Splash Pattern (Kegedonce Press)—a playful and haunting collection of stories grounded in the ... Read more

After a trip to see my grandparents in Dubai was cancelled—a wise decision by my mother—just days before Ontario went into a state of emergency, I opted to stay with my parents in Mississauga during quarantine instead of in my small one bedroom apartment in Toronto. In ... Read more

Celebrated as one of Canada's well-known and award-winning Indigenous authors, Richard Van Camp began his career with a collection of short stories— Angel Wing Splash Pattern (Kegedonce Press)—a playful, profound collection of stories that are very much grounded in ... Read more

My first job after my mother died was a contract position writing a Joke of the Day calendar. Each day I input approximately ninety jokes into an Excel spreadsheet, selecting which would appear on significant days such as the day my mother died, her birthday, the day she birthed ... Read more