August 15, 2019
“When I was first published, there were three giants of Canadian crime writing: Eric Wright, Ted Wood, and Howard Engel,” says novelist Peter Robinson. “Now the last of the three is gone.” Robinson, a giant ... Read More »
July 18, 2019
SHORT FICTION Even That Wildest Hope Seyward Goodhand Invisible Publishing, Oct. Seyward Goodhand’s short story “The Fur Trader’s Daughter” was shortlisted for the 2011 Writers’ Trust McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize. Since then, short-fiction readers ... Read More »
July 18, 2019
Howard Engel, the author of the beloved Benny Cooperman series of mysteries, has died at the age of 88. Engel's death, from pneumonia, was confirmed by his longtime agent, Beverly Slopen. Born in 1931 in ... Read More »
July 16, 2019
NOVELS Chasing Painted Horses Drew Hayden Taylor Cormorant Books, Sept. Comedian, playwright, and journalist Taylor, an Ojibway from Ontario’s Curve Lake First Nation, follows up his 2010 debut novel, Motorcycles and Sweetgrass, with another seriocomic ... Read More »
July 15, 2019
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
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