November 23, 2022
by Grace O’Connell
As a food blogger and influencer, Primrose Madayag Knazan knows how deeply embedded food is in our cultural psyche (her @pegonaplate Instagram is a drool-inducing showcase of Winnipeg’s best bites). So when Madayag Knazan, who ... Read More »
September 15, 2021
A single story hitting over a million reads. An audience topping 80 million every month. Engagement with one in three teen girls in North America. These are numbers many publishers dream about, but for Wattpad, ... Read More »
February 20, 2020
Shamim Sarif's fourth novel (and first for teens), The Athena Protocol, opens with a complicated act of violence. Elite teenage spy Jessie Archer shoots a sex trafficker whose young victims Jessie is rescuing on behalf ... Read More »
November 1, 2019
Growing up in Igloolik, Nunavut, Aviaq Johnston loved listening to traditional Inuit stories and reading young adult books. But she rarely saw northern stories reflected in the books she loved – until she wrote her ... Read More »
February 28, 2019
In 2012, readers went wild for Rachel Hartman’s YA fantasy Seraphina – which was a Quill & Quire book of the year – shooting the debut author up the New York Times bestseller list. The William C. ... Read More »
March 5, 2018