“My literary career goes back to when I was eight years old,” says Beth Powning. “I’ve always been a writer.” This is not hyperbole. In high school, the American-born Canadian novelist co-edited a magazine called ... Read More »
Talking about the Canadian short story is difficult because, in one important respect, it doesn’t exist. Generic classifications are obviously useful in delineating category distinctions, and in 2018, John Metcalf, one of this country’s foremost ... Read More »
When Michael Dennis died on Dec. 31, 2020, he was not nearly as well known as he should have been for a poet who had spent more than four decades in the CanLit trenches, carving ... Read More »
According to Rachel Salt, author and writer for the YouTube channel AsapSCIENCE, a staggering 6.3 metric tons of plastic – “equivalent to the mass of 42 million blue whales” – has been discarded over the ... Read More »
Canadian editor Janie Yoon spent the last 13 years helping build House of Anansi Press into one of the strongest domestic publishers around before departing at the end of 2020. Last week, Simon & Schuster ... Read More »