About the Author
Paige Cooper
Paige Cooper’s stories have appeared in The Fiddlehead, Gulf Coast, Michigan Quarterly Review, Carousel, and Canadian Notes & Queries, among others, and have been anthologized in The Journey Prize Stories, and Best Canadian Stories. She works for a record label in Montreal. Zolitude is her first book.
Helen 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 Helen says "writing a short story often feels like solving a puzzle" and catch an ... Read more
This genre-bending first collection of stories from author Barbara Black takes readers from the ravaged streets of dystopian cities to the inner battlefields of its characters. Mix the perception-blurring fables of Maria Mutch with a touch of Kafkaesque absurdity and a dash ... Read more
If you loved our August Book Club read Seeds and Other Stories by Ursula Pflug, we've got a few recommendations to keep the last vestiges of your summer full of the fantastical.
Short Story Month concludes with Elise Levine's This Wicked Tongue (Biblioasis), a collection that takes an honest and wry look at our inner psyche's and explores our ability to transform ourselves. Below, Elise shares more about the beauty of brevity and shares a story ... Read more
You'd think after four literary hangovers, we'd be better at managing our awards-fuelled reading binges and calling it a night. Proving once again that moderation isn't our strong suit, we bring you our fifth annual Literary Awards Hangover, a coffee-sipping, greasy-spoonin' ... Read more
This week, we interviewed authors, learned some science, shared debut reads and so much more!
Once you read that last chapter of a good book and put it down, there is so much to do and so much to consider. You want to take a moment and decide how it made you feel, or write down your two cents, maybe even cross it off your list and reach for the next book. But my personal ... Read more
And just like that, book club is finished for another summer. We’ve had only ups reading The Figgs’ ups and downs: from interviewing both publisher Freehand Books and author Ali Bryan, and having our own staff discussion that ended in fits of laughter. Because ... Read more
Can you believe it's already week four of July's book club activities? After meeting our pick Zolitude by Paige Cooper and seeing what the Biblioasis staff had to say, we had our own book club meeting, and interviewed Cooper herself. If you're also not quite ... Read more
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