“The system only changes when individuals do and when they’re willing to take risks.”
Ivan Coyote on letter writing, the Vancouver Writers Fest, and their new book deal with M&S
“Every once in a while, I would get a letter where I’d wish I had the time to write this person back the answer that their beautiful letter truly deserves.”
Kidlit Special: Sam Maggs on adapting Rainbow Rowell and writing Marvel’s The Wasp
Q&Q spoke with Maggs about multitasking, manga, female pirates, and what it means to write for Marvel canon.
Bestsellers: Director Michelle Latimer calls for Indigenous talent to adapt Indigenous work
Filmmaker Michelle Latimer on helming adaptations of Eden Robinson’s Trickster series and Thomas King’s The Inconvenient Indian.
Vivek Shraya talks revisiting her tender debut God Loves Hair with a 10th-anniversary edition
To commemorate God Loves Hair’s 10th anniversary, Shraya is re-releasing the collection in hardcover with a new story, new artwork by the book’s illustrator, Juliana Neufeld, and a foreword by author Cherie Dimaline.
Richard Gwyn, 1934–2020, is remembered as a prolific and incisive political thinker and writer
Richard Gwyn, whose political knowledge, acumen, and access were astounding, died on Aug. 15 at the age of 86.
North America’s first PhD in publishing, Amanda Lastoria, on researching Lewis Carroll’s Wonderland
Amanda Lastoria’s research at Vancouver’s Simon Fraser University used Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland to explore how book design influences the way a reader constructs meaning.
Author and epidemiologist David Waltner-Toews investigates the history of pandemics from the Black Death through COVID-19
Marianne Boucher finds healing in her graphic memoir of escaping a cult
As an 18-year-old, Boucher was recruited by a charismatic band of young people to join the Unification movement, which she eventually came to recognize as a cult.
Essay: Timothy Findley believed that in times of crisis, imagination has the power to save
Sherrill Grace, an officer of the Order of Canada, on Timothy Findley’s prescient plague writing.
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