Dionne Brand, one of the country’s most respected and beloved writers, returns this fall with two books: The Blue Clerk and Theory.
Sarah Weinman unveils the true story behind Vladimir Nabokov’s infamous 20th-century classic
Sarah Weinman was all of 16 years old the first time she read Lolita.
Tanis MacDonald: surviving as an “out-of-line” artist in a smaller community
Do you live in a major urban centre? Take this short test. You are giving a reading from your latest book at your local bookstore, and you invite a friend who lives an hour’s travel away. If your friend says instantly, “Awesome, I’ll be there,” chances are you live in a Big City. If your friend says, “What? Come all that way? On the highway?” then you probably live in a smaller city or town and belong to a group I call “out-of-line” artists.
“Jaw-dropping” setting for crime-writing workshop on B.C.’s Pender Island
At the inaugural Crime Writing on Pender weekend workshop, running Oct. 12 – 14, up to 12 strangers will gather on B.C.’s Pender Island in a secluded inn built atop a 200-foot cliff, where Arthur Ellis Award–winning crime writer William Deverall will coach them in plotting sinister (fictional) deeds.
Andrea Dorfman’s message of self-acceptance resonates in the graphic-novel adaptation of her film Flawed
Writer and illustrator Andrea Dorfman ends Flawed, her story of overcoming adolescent awkwardness, with a photo of herself at age 14. “With the wisdom of an older person looking back, I look at that picture now and I just love that girl so much,” Dorfman, 49, says. “As we get older we realize these differences that make us stand out are what make us unique.”
No forecasted outcome: Writer Sarah Sawler on co-authoring with YouTube weather star Frankie MacDonald
When Nimbus Publishing asked freelance writer Sarah Sawler to co-author a book with YouTube star Frankie MacDonald, they had no idea what the book would look like.
Joshua Whitehead: “I created the character of Jonny Appleseed because he would not let me be”
Jonny is the embodiment of the type of world I want to see: one that has no qualms with 2SQness; one that has elders, mothers, grandmothers, aunties, and kin that are able to push beyond their westernized understandings of binaries; and one where Indigenous femmes, women, and 2SQ (including bisexual) are centred.
Canada Council changes mean authors are applying for their own writer-in-residence funding
In June 2016, just a few weeks before the Canada Council for the Arts announced major changes to its granting system, Toronto author Trevor Cole was invited to be writer-in-residence at the Richmond Hill Public Library.
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.
Alanna Mitchell: “We do not live in a post-truth world, but one that needs science more than ever”
About a year ago, while I was passionately immersed in getting the manuscript of my latest book, The Spinning Magnet: The Force That Created the Modern World and Could Destroy It, to my publisher, I found myself with a brief moment to surface and take the temperature of the times.
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