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Q&A with Susan Juby

Susan Juby is the award-winning, bestselling author of Mindful of Murder, which was nominated for the Leacock Medal for Humour. She has also written Republic of Dirt, Getting the Girl, and The Woefield […]

Q&A with Leslie Gentile

Leslie Gentile’s debut novel Elvis, Me, and the Lemonade Stand Summer won the City of Victoria Children’s Book Prize, the Jean Little First-Novel Award, and was shortlisted for nine other […]

Q&A with Leanne Dunic

Leanne Dunic transgresses genres and form to produce projects such as One and Half of You (Talonbooks, 2021), To Love the Coming End (Book*hug/Chin Music Press, 2017), and The Gift (Book*hug, 2019).  In Wet, a transient Chinese […]

Q&A with Dylan Clark

Dylan Clark was born in Victoria, British Columbia, on the unceded lands of the WSÁNEĆ, T’Sou-ke, Klallam and Lek’wungen peoples. He studied writing and history at UVic and is currently […]

Q&A with Yeji Y. Ham

Yeji Y. Ham is a Korean-Canadian writer. She received her BA in creative writing from UBC and MFA in literary arts from Brown University. Her works have appeared in Shorts […]

Q&A with Scott Alexander Howard

Scott Alexander Howard lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. He has a PhD in philosophy from the University of Toronto and was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard, where his work focused […]

Q&A with Sarah Cox

Sarah Cox is an award-winning journalist for The Narwhal whose work focuses on environmental issues. Her book Breaching the Peace won a BC Book Prize and was a finalist for the Writers’ Trust Shaughnessy […]

Q&A with Brandi Bird

Brandi Bird is an Indigiqueer Saulteaux, Cree, and Métis writer from Treaty 1 territory. They currently live and learn on the land of the Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh & Musqueam peoples. Bird […]

Q&A with Katłı̨̀ą

Katłı̨̀ą is a northern Dene woman who spends her time between her ancestral homelands in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories and Lekwungen speaking people’s Coast Salish Territory. She recently published her fourth novel, […]

Q&A with Pauline Holdstock

Pauline Holdstock is an award-winning novelist, short fiction writer, and essayist with books published internationally. In Canada, her work has been shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Commonwealth Writers’ […]

Q&A with Maia Caron

Maia Caron is a Vancouver Island-based Indigenous writer and author of Song of Batoche, a historical novel that was a CBC must-read book for 2018. The Toronto Star described the novel as a “tale […]

Q&A with Danny Ramadan

Danny Ramadan is a Lambda-award winning Syrian-Canadian author. His novels, The Clothesline Swing and The Foghorn Echoes continue to receive accolades. His award-winning children’s books The Salma Series continues to […]

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