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Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Writer’s Block: Kayla Williams
In her debut authored and illustrated picture book Aurora’s Journey (Kegedonce Press), Kayla Williams takes inspiration from her home in Labrador to deliver a message of courage and trust through a heartfelt adventure encouraging connection with our natural lands. We chat with Kayla about what inspired the idea for her first book, why she writes,…
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Women Asking Women: Andrea Scott & Kamila Sediego
In today’s conversation playwrights Andrea Scott and Kamila Sediego talk about the emotional and creative depths behind their respective plays, Get That Hope (Scirocco Drama) and Homecoming (Playwrights Canada Press), both of which examine family, identity, and belonging across cultures and generations.
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Women Asking Women: Shawna Lemay & Margaret Macpherson
Authors Shawna Lemay (Apples on a Windowsill, Palimpsest Press) and Margaret Macpherson (Tilting Towards Joy, Signature Editions) share a thoughtful conversation about the quiet magic of writing and reading—how stories can reveal hidden layers of our everyday lives, the authors who have inspired them, and the meaningful ways their work connects with readers.
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Mixtape: Bloom
Our latest edition of Mixtape features authors Nicole Breit and Claire Sicherman who share the songs that shaped their coming-of-age years. Their collaborative memoir, Bloom: Letters on Girlhood (Caitlin Press), unfolds as an intimate letter exchange spanning two and a half years where they have a deeply personal conversation about growing up, self-discovery, and the…
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Women Asking Women: Heather Birrell & Meg Todd
Heather Birrell (Born, Coach House Books) and Meg Todd (Most Grievous Fault, Nightwood Editions) discuss how their novels use deeply interior points of view to probe human complexity: how people think, relate, and fail to understand one another. They reflect on the classroom and the inner city as microcosms of society—spaces full of overlapping voices,…
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Excerpted: The Witch of Willow Sound
Vanessa F. Penney’s The Witch of Willow Sound (ECW Press) is a haunting, atmospheric novel about women called witches and the histories we try to forget. The story centres on Fade who, tasked with finding her missing aunt Madeline, returns to the eerie woods of Willow Sound to discover her cottage in ruins and the…
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Women Asking Women: Keiko Honda & Kayla Williams
Writer and community organizer Keiko Honda (The Broken Map Home, Caitlin Press) and children’s book writer and illustrator Kayla Williams (Aurora’s Journey, Kegedonce Press) talk about the power of stories to connect us across generations, cultures, and experiences, while reflecting on the creative and technical challenges of bringing lived experience to the page.
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Writer’s Block: Elaine M. Will
In The Last Band on Earth (Renegade Arts), award-winning cartoonist and illustrator Elaine M. Will tackles depression, mental illness, and art-making in a demon-ruled dystopian horror story about a band that won’t give up. We chat with Elaine about the most rewarding parts of being a writer, drawing as therapy, and the punk-rock spirit that…
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Women Asking Women: Zilla Jones & Elise Levine
Writers Zilla Jones and Elise Levine come together to discuss their new books The World So Wide (Cormorant Books) and Big of You (Biblioasis), and chat about the art of writing women characters and the ways personal history and art intersect.
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Beautiful Books: Queers at the Table
Featuring 38 contributors Queers at the Table (Arsenal Pulp Press) is a full-colour anthology of essays, comics, and recipes that reveals the dynamic and transformative relationship between queerness and food. Anthologies, by their nature, offer readers a veritable buffet of content organized by genre or theme. Queers at the Table is made even more tempting…
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Women Asking Women: Joana Mosi & Miranda Schreiber
Today’s Women Asking Women features cartoonist Joana Mosi (The Mongoose, Pow Pow Press) and debut novelist Miranda Schreiber (Iris and the Dead, Book*hug Press) in conversation about grief, memory, and the porous line between reality and fiction.
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Women Asking Women: Rebecca Morris & Nadia Staikos
Our latest Women Asking Women feature brings together fiction writers Rebecca Morris and Nadia Staikos whose debut novels Other Maps (Linda Leith Publishing) and Until They Sleep (Guernica Editions), respectively, wrestle with the constraints placed on women’s lives. Together, they discuss fairy tale traditions, their writing process, and the pressures women continue to navigate.
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Two Poems: A Scent of India
Sesenarine Persaud’s poetry collection A Scent of India (Mawenzi House) is infused with the sounds, scents, colours, and philosophies of India, reflecting on its subtle and not-so-subtle influence on the Americas, from Guyana and Trinidad to Canada and the United States. Read two poems from the book, below.
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Women Asking Women: Leila Marshy & Ellen Chang-Richardson
Our first Women Asking Women feature brings together poet Ellen Chang-Richardson and fiction multi-genre writer Leila Marshy in conversation. Both of their recent books take on questions of identity, belonging, and the lives of those at the margins: In Blood Belies (Wolsak & Wynn), Ellen explores race, belonging, and the visual possibilities of poetry; and…
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Excerpted: The Wax Child
Olga Ravn’s The Wax Child (Book*hug Press) reimagines the story of seventeenth-century Danish noblewoman Christenze Kruckow, accused of witchcraft, told through the haunting perspective of a wax doll she creates. Translated by Martin Aitken, this unsettling, dizzying horror story explores brutality and power, nature and witchcraft, set in the fragile communities of pre-modern Europe. Read…
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