A joint event put on by the Toronto International Festival of Authors (TIFA) and the Festival of the Peripheries (FLUP) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is commemorated in an anthology published by Kegedonce Press.
Martha Schabas on the tension between appearance and truth
“I’m interested in the comparison between what we consider a performative art and what we consider a creative one, and the point at which they might overlap.”
Harnessing the power of images to tell the real story of heroin use in Canada
In Heroin: An Illustrated History, scholar and activist Susan Boyd wanted to tell the story not only of how heroin went from prescribed drug to illegal substance, but also of the harm-reduction activists and heroin users who have mounted a sustained resistance to prohibition and called attention to the continued overdose crisis.
Writing a graphic memoir on the road reminded Jon Claytor that life is about the journey, not the destination
When he set off in 2019 for an artist’s residency in Prince Rupert, B.C., Jon Claytor packed his paints and canvases, but he soon found himself scribbling line drawings on his tablet to record his cross-country travels. Those collected reflections became Take the Long Way Home, published this month by Conundrum Press.
Writer Sheree Fitch and fibre artist Deb Plestid celebrate the poetry of spring
Sing in the Spring! is arranged in poetic vignettes that celebrate the sounds, sights, smells, and textures of spring, all punctuated by delightful quilt illustrations.
To provide my little one a global imagination, I adapted stories from my childhood
Consuming the stories of the Panchatantra as a child allowed me to understand the socio-cultural ecosystem I was growing up in.
Novelist Beth Powning steps behind the lens – again – for Robert Osborne’s Hardy Apples
“With writing, there’s nothing to begin with,” Powning says. “With photography, you go behind the camera and the image is there.”
Winnipeg artists’ latest book has been in the works for more than a decade
The role of literary journals in building a writer’s career
Canada has, depending on how you count them, between 15 and 60 journals that publish short fiction. Yet the influence of literary journals on the country’s short fiction ecosystem can feel more amorphous than futile.
Canadian short fiction defined by its undefinability
If such a thing as “the Canadian short story” exists, it perhaps resembles the Canadian identity in its staunch refusal to accommodate any sort of stringent definition.
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