Excerpt from Story Is a State of Mind: Writing and the Art of Creative Curiosity
UBC’s George Bowering Collection and Reading Room project facing year-end fundraising deadline
Bowering, along with his partner Jean Baird and Katherine Kalsbeek, head of rare books and special collections at the UBC Library, is working on a project to recreate his creative work space as part of the library’s public spaces.
Listen up: These podcasts offer a different approach to books and writers
For nearly as long as there have been podcasts, there have been podcasts about stories. Three recently launched podcasts take a slightly different approach to the writing life.
Excerpt from Spark: Alice Kuipers on Writing for Kids & Young Adults
Excerpt from Because Somebody Asked Me To: Observations on History, Literature, and the Passing Scene
Agony Editor: Writing comes from within, not from a fancy notebook
I’m sorry to tell you that no notebook, pen, or grammatical chant will improve your productivity or motivate you to write.
Excerpt from Crooked Teeth: A Queer Syrian Refugee Memoir
Tales from the shortlist: Q&As with the Canadian finalists for the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction
Ahead of the May 13 announcement of this year’s winner, Q&Q caught up with Eleanor Catton, Claudia Dey, and Janika Oza to find what significance the prize has for them and what stories they sought to tell in their shortlisted novels.