In May, Toronto author and TV beauty expert Chantel Guertin wrapped up her Pippa Greene YA series with the fourth instalment, Golden Hour.
Diversity driving sales in kidlit, says Book Summit keynote Zareen Jaffery
Zareen Jaffery, the keynote speaker at the Toronto publishing conference Book Summit, on her role as acquiring editor for Simon & Schuster’s Muslim children’s book imprint, Salaam Reads.
Remembering David McFadden, 1940–2018
“I am happy,” wrote the poet David McFadden in a 2014 article for Toronto Life.
Pedlar Press founder Beth Follett looks forward to returning to her own writing after more than 20 years of nurturing writers’ books
When Pedlar Press founder Beth Follett was a young woman growing up in 1970s Winnipeg, she wanted to become a poet.
Winnie Yeung says collaborating on a young Syrian refugee’s story proved educational for both
I am not a writer by profession, but literature is my passion. I teach English language arts and ESL in an Edmonton junior high school. Usually, when I ask my students to write about their lives, even just their summer vacations, I’m met with whining. “I don’t know what to write!” So I was delighted when, one day in my office, a Grade 9 student named Abu Bakr al Rabeeah, who had fled the civil war in Syria, shared his secret wish: “I want to tell my story.”
How poet Jeff Latosik uses juxtaposition and ambiguity to mine truths about the human condition
“With a poem, you’re trying to say the unsayable.” As poetic manifestoes go, this one is fairly typical of Toronto’s Jeff Latosik.
From military brat to acclaimed poet, Dani Couture has never lost her sense of curiosity
When Dani Couture was 10 years old, she wrote a fan letter to the novelist Sidney Sheldon. Couture, a self–described “military brat,” was the child of parents in the Canadian Forces; she used to buy paperbacks at yard sales and flea markets on and off whatever base they were seconded to.
Ben Clanton on the Narwhal that swims inside his head
Ben Clanton’s Narwhal and Jelly books appeal to parents, kids, and reluctant readers
Former Maclean’s editor Kenneth Whyte launches new publishing venture, acquires The Porcupine’s Quill
“I wanted to be a book publisher. It wasn’t much more complicated than that.”
Terese Marie Mailhot: how speaking her own story provided a means of transcending negative experiences
In a public interview recently, a journalist asked me what I meant in the final pages of my memoir, Heart Berries, when I proclaimed myself “untouchable.” A room full of authors gasped audibly at my boldness.
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