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Excerpted: Zegaajimo
In Zegaajimo, a brand-new, spine-tingling collection edited by Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler and Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm, Indigenous writers borrow from legends across Turtle Island – as well as their own imaginations – to tell scary stories. Read an excerpt from Richard Van Camp’s terrifying contribution, “Mouthless,” below.
Beautiful Books: ๆ็ๅๆฏๅผ ๆฌฃๆฉ (Gimme chance leh)
Playwright Kris Vanessa Teo Xin-En (ๅผ ๆฌฃๆฉ) of ๆ็ๅๆฏๅผ ๆฌฃๆฉ (Gimme chance leh)ย (Playwrights Canada Press)ย โ a heartwarming play about existing in the in-between told through the story of a young diasporic Chinese woman attempting to reconcile her Canadian and Singaporean identities โ chats with the book’s cover designer and close personal friend Yelly. The two chat about…
Two Poems: No Credit River by Zoe Whittall
Acclaimed novelist and TV writer Zoe Whittall’s new prose poetry memoirNo Credit River (Book*hug Press) delves deeply into a six-year period defined by heartbreak, the sorrow of a lost pregnancy, and the isolation of the pandemic, offering a profound reflection on the nature of creativity. Read on for two passages from the book that reaffirm…
Homegrown 2.0: Even More Locally Produced Reads (October 24)
Our final crop of Homegrown picks include a gothic mystery, two poetry collections, a debut novel, and a collection of funny and heartbreaking “epitaphs.” Our featured authors hail from Hamilton, ON; Conception Bay, NL; Cranbrook, BC, and more. Read on to find out more about their books and what they love about their hometowns.
Under the Cover: Behind the scenes of The Book of Cross series by Peter Darbyshire
Peter Darbyshire’s The Book of Cross, a series of supernatural thrillers that blend fantasy, horror, humour, and art, was born from the author’s fascination with an Old English poem that inspired him to create Cross, an immortal antihero who has lived thousands of years and is now hunting angels in Barcelona. Below, Peter gives us…
Writer’s Block: Guy Vanderhaeghe
In his new book of nonfiction Because Somebody Asked Me To (Thistledown Press), Guy Vanderhaeghe recounts moments from his forty-year writing careerโincluding the challenges of crafting fiction and growing up on the prairiesโgiving readers a glimpse into how his beginnings shaped him as an author and his generation of fiction writers. Today, Guy answers five…
Excerpted: Yellow Barks Spider
A bold and stunning debut novel from up-and-coming trans author Harman Burns Yellow Barks Spider (Radiant Press) is a queer, coming-of-age novella about memory, trauma, love, and the human spirit. Set in the Canadian prairies, the story follows a ten-year-old trans kid haunted by strange spider-infested visions of his next door neighbour’s shed, falling deeper…
Homegrown 2.0: Even More Locally Produced Reads (October 17)
This week’s batch of authors share their hometown pride with visits to their favourite local spots in Toronto, Montreal, and Lunenburg.
Writer’s Block: Elizabeth Ruth
Elizabeth Ruth, author of several books including the recent poetry collection This Report is Strictly Confidential (Caitlin Press), shares her early experiences with writing, her creative rituals, and a fantasy writing day. She reflects on the joys and challenges of being a writer, including the vulnerability of publishing poetry and the many lives sheโs lived…
Beautiful Books: The “Hammerhead” Jed series, a tetralogy of covers explained
A.J. Devlin, author of the award-winning โHammerheadโ Jed pro-wrestler PI mystery-comedy novels gives us a peek into the making of the covers in the series. Designed by Michel Vrana, the striking covers evoke the fun, quirky elements of the novels and create an artful, cohesive package. Read on for a behind-the-scenes look at the process.
Under the Cover: The Posthumous Literary Career
When editor Robert Runtรฉ published a blog post in 2014 advising writers to put their literary wishes in their wills (who owns their manuscripts, finished and unfinished, etc.), he didnโt think heโd become one of those wishes. Upon the death of a longtime writer and collaborator, the prolific sci-fi author Dave Duncan, Robert was called…
Homegrown 2.0: Even More Locally Produced Reads (October 10)
Where do these freshly-grown literary picks hail from this week? We visit authors and their new books on the East and West coasts (and pop into Edmonton, for good measure!).
Two Poems: Daddy
In their new collection of poems, Daddy (Brick Books), Jake Byrne mines patriarchy and trauma and turns it into a joyful exploration of queer desire, seeking to re-form the pain of the past. Read the poems “A poem about my pet canary I” and “edging” from Daddy below.
Writer’s Block: Andrew Forbes
While his latest novel The Diapause (Invisible Publishing) tackles coming-of-age and the end of the world by turns, Andrew Forbes instead chats with us about having multiple projects on the go, always coming back to Coltrane, and how waiting really is the hardest part.
“I always write until I know the character very well”: An Interview with Matthew Fox
In our interview with Matthew Fox, the author discusses his forthcoming collection of linked stories, This Is It (Great Plains Press) a sweeping yet intimate family epic intertwined with a love story. The book’s main character, Gio, abandons his ailing boyfriend only to find himself in New York City during 9/11. We chat with Matthew…
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