About the Author
Terry Watada
Terry Watada is a Toronto poet, novelist, playwright, essayist, historian, musician, and composer, with numerous publications to his credit. Five of his plays have received mainstage production. For his writing, music and community volunteerism, he was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal. His recent published works include The Game of 100 Ghosts (Mawenzi House, 2014), Nishga Girl: a Tale of Love and Friendship (HpF Press, 2017), and The Three Pleasures (Anvil Press, 2017). His upcoming poetry collection, The Four Sufferings (Mawenzi House) and novel, The Mysterious Dreams of the Dead (Anvil Press) will be released in 2020.
Suffering a bit of that summertime sadness? Turn those frowns upside down with this bluesy cover collage that we're channeling big pool party energy with. Grab your favourite pair of sunnies and any one of these rad reads to brighten your day and ramp up your summer vibes.
A Japanese Edo-period game inspires multigenre writer and artist Terry Watada's featured collection, The Game of 100 Ghosts (Mawenzi House). Game players light one hundred candles, snuffing out one at a time after telling a ghost story. The hoped result was that a being ... Read more
We thought Rhonda Douglas' Welcome to the Circus (launching this week in Toronto and Calgary) was an appropriate feature title for this week's This Week in Book Events, if only because it evokes:
Vancouver Confidential dives into the raw urban culture of a port city in the mid-twentieth century. These were the years when Hastings and Main was still a dynamic commercial and entertainment hub, when streetcars thrummed through the city, and when "theatre" meant vaudeville ... Read more
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