Victoria, B.C., poet Eve Joseph is the Canadian winner of the 2019 Griffin Poetry Prize for her collection Quarrels. Joseph was presented with the $65,000 prize – the most lucrative in the country for poetry ... Read More »
June 7, 2019
Janet Hawkins loved Christmas. More than most people, perhaps. “We would decorate our area of the office into a crazy, Christmas wonderland,” says Bianca Spence, a program consultant who worked alongside Hawkins at the government ... Read More »
May 30, 2019
Windsor, Ontario, writer Casey Plett has won the $60,000 Amazon First Novel Award for her debut work of full-length fiction, Little Fish, published by Arsenal Pulp Press. Set during a Winnipeg winter, the novel tells ... Read More »
May 23, 2019
I’ve never believed in an afterlife, not really. I was raised with a mishmash of beliefs, a cherry-picked amalgam of spirituality and magic, cobbled together from family tradition and Eastern practices. And most of them ... Read More »
May 10, 2019
It seems too soon to be relegating Wayson Choy to memory. He was such a vital presence mere days ago. And he glowed everywhere he went. Often when I thought of what it meant to ... Read More »
May 6, 2019
For almost a decade, Tim Inkster, co-owner and publisher of the Erin, Ontario, press The Porcupine’s Quill, has been getting “unsubtle suggestions” about his advancing age from granting officers at the Canada Council for the ... Read More »
April 29, 2019
A.F. Moritz is not enamoured with our ersatz condo culture. The poet and professor is sitting in an apartment in Toronto, looking out the window at a new development going up across the street. “The ... Read More »
April 25, 2019
Joe Rosenblatt's iconoclastic proclivity and linguistic abandon were apparent right from the start of his long and lauded career. The Toronto-born writer and artist – who relocated to Qualicum Beach on Vancouver Island in 1980 ... Read More »
April 1, 2019
For this year’s Poetry Month feature, Q&Q brought together three Canadian poets at various career stages for a conversation about craft and process. Karen Solie is the author of five books of poetry. Her collection ... Read More »
April 1, 2019
Brian Brett, the B.C. writer and poet, still recalls the first time he met Patrick Lane. It was 1971, and Lane had appeared in fellow writer Seymour Mayne’s basement apartment at the University of British ... Read More »
March 11, 2019
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