Spoken word poet and Edmonton's Poet Laureate Emeritus Nisha Patel shares "questions for google assistant at 4am", a poem from her collection  Coconut (NeWest Press), and tells us about how writing can be like sculpting, "weird flexes" in the performance space, and more ... Read more

In this edition of Women asking Women, mystery writer Raye Anderson (most recently of  Down Came the Rain, the third instalment of her Roxanne Calloway series) and novelist/short story writer Darlene Madott (most recently of her ninth book,  Winners and Losers) discuss ... Read more

For this instalment of ALU Gift Guide Week, writers Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch and H. Felix Chau Bradley have teamed up; they each recommend two faves, and then join in on a recommendation (let's call it doubly-recommended). In addition to being Metonymy Press authors (of  ... Read more

Writers featured on Off/Kilter have many talents, but we're especially lucky to show off a few at once of the multi-talented illustrator, graphic novelist, and poet Neal Shannacappo. In our interview, Neal walks us through heartbreak, healing, and fantasy elements that inspired ... Read more

Short story writer and lit mag editor Aaron Schneider shares his collection  What We Think We Know (Gordon Hill Press), its play with the medium in the form of diagrammatic stories, stories in the form of questions, stories that break apart and metastasize. Including the ... Read more

Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch shares their second collection  The Good Arabs (Metonymy Press) in this latest instalment of Poetry Muse. They discuss working amidst other artists and creators, exploring the tensions and linkages between the micro and macro, and share their ... Read more

Today's Poetry Muse feature is a triple-header of poets from Renaissance Press'  AfriCANthology: Perspectives of Black Canadian Poets. We're joined by Andrea Thompson, reading "After the Storm;" Evelyn C. White, reading "One Rock;" and the anthology's editor and poet himself, ... Read more

Today on Poetry Muse, we are joined by Kevin Bushell, author of  Invisible Sea (DC Books). He shares in our Q&A session how inspiration comes to him, how he started writing his poetry collection, and a poem from his collection. 

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

We are joined today with the author of  Sister Seen, Sister Heard (Fernwood Publishing) Kimia Eslah, who shares her experiences of speaking out against injustice and trusting her own interpretation of events. She knows that while retaliation can be frightening, silence ... Read more