by Steven W. Beattie

Fall preview 2019: Novels

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

Eve Joseph and Kim Hyesoon win 2019 Griffin Poetry Prizes

By Steven W. Beattie

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, program consultant at Ontario Creates, is remembered as a passionate advocate for publishers and writers

By Steven W. Beattie

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

Casey Plett wins the 2019 Amazon First Novel Award

By Steven W. Beattie

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

“She made being human into an art”: Remembering Teva Harrison, 1976–2019

By Steven W. Beattie

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

Joseph Kertes on the life and legacy of Wayson Choy

By Steven W. Beattie

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

How the Canada Council makes a small press an uncertain investment

By Steven W. Beattie

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 on being poet laureate, his new chapbook, and “the glory and the tragedy of being human”

By Steven W. Beattie

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

This wild menagerie: remembering Joe Rosenblatt, 1933–2019

By Steven W. Beattie

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

Poetry month: A roundtable discussion with Karen Solie, Doyali Islam, and Matthew Walsh

By Steven W. Beattie

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

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