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.
Wayne Simpson blends storytelling with photography in his collection of portraits
When he first asked to photograph a stranger, Wayne Simpson couldn’t have imagined that he was about to embark on a years-long project that would culminate in a book of portraits and personal stories.
S. Bear Bergman adapts his popular advice column into an illustrated guide
An impromptu decision to collaborate with a friend, Toronto cartoonist and illustrator Saul Freedman-Lawson, showed Bergman his online column could be a full-length book.
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