About the Author
Kate Hargreaves
Kate Hargreaves is a writer and roller derby skater. Her first book, Talking Derby: Stories from a Life on Eight Wheels (2012), is a collection of short prose vignettes inspired by women's flat-track roller derby. Her poetry has been published in literary journals across North America, including Descant , filling Station, The Puritan, Drunken Boat, The Antigonish Review, Canada and Beyond, Carousel , and Rampike , in the anthologies Whisky Sour City (2012), Detours (2012), as well as in the Windsor Review's "Best Writers Under 35" issue. Hargreaves was the recipient of a Windsor Endowment for the Arts Emerging Literary Artist Award in 2011 and a Governor General's Gold Medal in Graduate Studies at the University of Windsor in 2012, where she obtained her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in English and Creative Writing. Kate grew up in Amherstburg, Ontario, but now lives in Windsor, where she works as a publishing assistant and book designer.
This week we reflected on our time at Toronto's Word on the Street, binged The Good Place, compared unreliable narrators, and lots more.
Poet and illustrator of the collection It Begins With The Body (Book*hug) Hana Shafi sits down with designer Kate Hargreaves to ask how she incorporated a "small binder of mine filled with my poems and weird line drawings" into a hybrid book about body positivity and decolonization ... Read more
Named one of the most anticipated books of spring 2017 by CBC Books, Quill and Quire, and Toronto Star, Marianne Apostolides' Deep Salt Water (BookThug) has been on our radar for some time. This memoir brings to air the emotional experience of a love affair, an unwanted pregnancy, ... Read more
We love having book designer/poet/derby champ Kate Hargreaves here on All Lit Up (exhibits A + B: her author interview and piece on Derby and body positivity), so naturally, we're thrilled to hear which books she'd put under the tree/non-denominational plant this ... Read more
While all the back-to-school photos that flooded Facebook this week made it feel like fall, the 40+ degree weather at ALU HQ did not. We hope your first week back after our last summer long weekend didn't feel quite as long as it did to us but if it did, we've rounded up some ... Read more
In this edition of Beautiful Books, NeWest Press's Claire Kelly interviews book designer Kate Hargreaves, who worked on their new collection of short stories, Lost Animal Club by Kevin A. Couture. See Kate's process on designing short story covers (versus fiction ... Read more
In our final book club post of the summer (don’t mind us crying over here…), we’re recommending some other CanLit titles to keep you reading long after you’re done A Gentle Habit. And if you missed our July book club pick, there are even more fantastic books we can ... Read more
With the recent release of D.D. Miller's roller derby book, Eight-Wheeled Freedom, we asked writer, poet, designer, and derby player Kate Hargreaves to share her experiences in the sport with us. Her early motivations in joining derby morphed into a lifelong love of ... Read more
Holy Toledo: there are THREE LPG40 events coming at'cha this week in St. John's, Vancouver, and Winnipeg! Not enough? There's also IFOA going down in Toronto, and some author readings mixed in for good measure.
Are you hosting an event featuring an author whose titles are available ... Read more
There's tons going on this week, including Vancouver Writers' Fest, our second LPG40 event, this time in Montreal, and the International Festival of Authors in Toronto and surrounding area. BUT: if you go and do anything this week, make sure you VOTE first. VOTE. VOTE. VOTE. ... Read more
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