This week included fairy tales and feminism, B.C.'s Okanagan as a place of freedom and confinement, books for Pink Shirt Day, another Read Harder Challenge, and more.

It is winter 2012. I am walking across campus with fellow students from my poetry workshop to the bus loop, where I’ll catch a 99 back to the apartment with the leaky solarium I share with my partner. It’s a miserable day—cold, grey, with very little colour outside except ... Read more

National Poetry Month continues with four more rad women of poetry, discounts, and a fun quiz to test your knowledge!

In this dark but hopeful collection The Brightest Thing (Caitlin Press), poet Ruth Daniell takes an honest look at love, relationships and the fairy-tale notion of "happily-ever-after" from a modern day perspective. We sat down with Ruth to talk more about this rad collection ... Read more

This National Poetry Month we're shouting it out to all the rad women of poetry who write in all kinds of spaces and styles and explore all kinds of themes. Poetry Grrrowl is a raised fist and high-five to those women who make us better readers and thinkers. Join us here on ... Read more

This week we questioned irrational political decisions in the information age, played casting director, looked at the problem with the happily-ever-after narratives, and much more. 

We sat down with award-winning poet Ruth Daniell to talk about the writing process behind her first full-length collection of poetry The Brightest Thing (Caitlin Press), the problem with happily-ever-after narratives and and her hope that fairy tales will open a dialogue ... Read more

From that last story before bed to now, fairy tales have played a big part in many of our lives, creating a space for us to dream and a reason to wonder. They might look a little different now, but they certainly have not lost their place in storytelling across cultures. As ... Read more

Welcome to this month’s edition of Jules’ Tools for Social Change, a column that features a book, author or publisher whose work deals with issues of race, gender, sexuality, ability, colonialism, economic justice, or other social justice topics. In honour of International ... Read more