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.
KidLit Special: A new picture book series highlights the Haida sk’ad’a
KidLit Special: Rap music can be a powerful literary experience
ECW Press launches Best New Speculative Novel Contest
The winner will receive $3,000 and a publishing contract.
Joshua Glenn’s language obsession goes on an adventure
A social media collaboration is commemorated in a new collection
When George Toles first joined Facebook, he found the medium dull but had an idea how to make it more interesting.
Q&A: Louise B. Halfe will highlight Aboriginal writers as Parliamentary poet laureate
Halfe shares her plans for her two-year term as parliamentary poet laureate.
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