About the Author
Jenny Sampirisi
Jenny Sampirisi is the author of the novel Is/Was from Insomniac Press. She is the managing editor of BookThug, where she also edits the Department of Narrative Studies imprint, which focuses on innovative prose. She is the co-director of the Toronto New School of Writing, a series of reading and writing workshops designed and facilitated by working writers. She teaches English Literature and Composition at Ryerson University. Croak is her first poetry collection.
For Women's History Month, we've saved Wednesdays for highlighting Canadian women writers, their latest work, and their writing process. This final October Wednesday, we have an interview with poet and writer Margaret Christakos, author most recently of Her Paraphernalia: ... Read more
As the temperatures drop, warm your brains up with some literary happenings in your neighbourhood. If you're in Toronto, might we suggest The Puritan's Black Friday event, featuring a bevy of authors on All Lit Up?
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Established poet and women's activist Sonja Greckol ( Skein of Days, Pedlar, 2014) highlights the corporeality of Kate Hargreaves' debut poetry collection, Leak (BookThug, 2014), as her poetry primer pick.
As a national organization, the LPG has members in various towns, cities, and crossroads right across the country. With that being the case, we definitely have not had the opportunity to see "where the magic happens" with most of our publishers. But we are infinitely curious ... Read more
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