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.
Excerpt from Ascenti: Humans Opening to AI
Cynthia Flood on writing: Excerpt from Off the Record
Caroline Adderson on kidlit: Excerpt from Off the Record
Rebecca Hirsch Garcia on her debut collection and ECW’s BIPOC writers mentorship program
Rebecca Hirsch Garcia was one of the first-round mentees in spring 2021, and she was paired with in-house ECW editor Jen Albert.
Beyond the cover: Canadian team bringing more manga to English readers
Dan K. Woo on editing an anthology of new Chinese Canadian writing
The Spirits Have Nothing to Do with Us brings together nine stories from both emerging and published writers including Anna Ling Kaye, Lydia Kwa, Eddy Boudel Tan, Isabella Wang, and Bingji Ye, whose story is translated by Woo himself.
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