Black History Month is an opportunity for us to reflect on the incredible Black writers we have across the country, writing for all kinds of literary genres. We kick off the month and our Black Writers' Series with a look at four fantastic fiction writers, with a feature title ... Read more

Playwright Suvendrini Lena and translator Dushy Gnanapragasam share how the experience of the Tamil diaspora creates unique challenges to the writing and translating of a play featuring Tamil characters, with respect to Lena's play - translated by Gnanapragasam into Tamil -  ... Read more

Today, January 24 marks the date of International Education Day. This day was established in 2018 by the United Nations General Assembly to address and strengthen education as a public endeavour. Supporting educators with the right tools and resources, ensures a better quality ... 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

We teamed up with Matthew Stepanic, writer, and poet, as well as co-founder of Glass Buffalo and Glass Bookshop, for today’s gift guide series. Stepanic tells us that, “My main mission on this good green earth is to help as many folks as possible discover that poetry is ... Read more

As each woman becomes accustomed to her duties and patients in the midst of war, they reveal more personal details to one another and through letters to loved ones. Read on to see who has been casted in this week’s Character Study based off of the play Bluebirds (Playwrights ... Read more

Both designer Tania Willard and Secwépemc poet Garry Gottfriedson take a moment to discuss the inspiration and meaning behind Gottfriedson’s cover for his latest collection Bent Back Tongue (Caitlin Press).

How does the cover design process change when you're particularly close to the work, and author? Award-winning book designer Ingrid Paulson walks us through what it was like designing for Matt Cahill's new novel  Radioland (Wolsak & Wynn) - a book by her spouse, one she'd ... Read more

Is Pacifique too good to be true? It's the question Sarah L. Taggart's protagonist Tia has to ask of her romance with the title character in her debut novel  Pacifique (Coach House Books), and one upon which this taut, literary psychological thriller rests. Read on to find ... Read more

Celebrated Ukrainian writer Ivan Baidak's newest novel,  (In)visible (Guernica Editions), hits particularly close to home: it chronicles the protagonist Adam's tentative steps into public life after years of self-inflicted "invisibility." Diagnosed with Tourette's syndrome ... Read more