June 6, 2019
This story appeared in Q&Q’s sexual-harassment survey feature in the May 2019 print edition. Traditional editing standards and practices give editors authority over whose work is published. Editors influence word choices, tone, sentence clarity, and ... Read More »
April 22, 2019
In 2017, Hannah McGregor, Julie Rak and Erin Wunker appeared on a panel in Toronto called #UBCAccountable: Feminist Past, Present and Futures in CanLit, at the conference of the Association for Canadian and Quebec Literatures. ... Read More »
October 22, 2018
Black Dog Publishing, the London, U.K., publisher of non-fiction books on art and culture, left numerous Canadian art galleries, artists, and authors in limbo when it laid off all 22 employees and shut its doors ... Read More »
March 19, 2018
The second annual Growing Room festival, hosted by Room magazine, brought writers together in Vancouver from March 1–4 to celebrate diverse Canadian literature and underrepresented voices. According to Room’s publisher, Meghan Bell, the festival was ... Read More »
March 12, 2018
Canadian author Elizabeth Smart’s poetic prose novel By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept is touring Canada as an album adaptation by Winnipeg songwriting duo Heavy Bell. The novel, which was first released ... Read More »
January 29, 2018
Three years ago, John Zeppetelli, curator of Montreal’s Musée d’art contemporain, thought the gallery might celebrate Montreal’s 375th anniversary with a show about the city’s greatest ambassadors. But one icon emerged as most powerfully connected ... Read More »
November 13, 2017
Metatron’s book covers could all be Instagram memes or art show posters. That’s because when founder and managing editor Ashley Opheim launched the Montreal-based independent publisher in 2013, her goal was to produce beautifully designed ... Read More »
August 30, 2017