Tunnel Island, Bill Gaston‘s eighth fiction collection, appears next Spring. Others—Mount Appetite, Gargoyles, Juliet Was a Surprise, Mariner’s Guide to Self Sabotage—have won or been short listed for the Governor […]
Q&A
Q&A with Cody Caetano
In connection with the annual Victoria Festival of Authors taking place October 16 to 20, 2024, Plenitude book reviews editor Shawn Syms interviews Cody Caetano, author of the best-selling 2022 […]
Q&A with Jen Currin
Jen Currin‘s new collection of stories is Disembark, published by House of Anansi. Their collection Hider/Seeker: Stories won a Canadian Independent Book Award, was a finalist for a ReLit Award, […]
Q&A with Zehra Naqvi
Zehra Naqvi is a Karachi-born writer raised on unceded Coast Salish Territories (Vancouver, B.C.). She is a winner of the 2021 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers. She also […]
Q&A with Shashi Bhat
Shashi Bhat has written three books of fiction, most recently the story collection Death by a Thousand Cuts. Her novel-in-stories, The Most Precious Substance on Earth, was a finalist for the […]
Q&A with Corinna Chong
Corinna Chong‘s first novel, Belinda’s Rings, was published by NeWest Press in 2013. Her debut short story collection, The Whole Animal, and her second novel, Bad Land, were published by Arsenal Pulp […]
Q&A with Helen Knott
Helen Knott is a Dane Zaa, Nehiyaw, Métis,and mixed Euro-descent woman living in Fort St. John, British Columbia. Her bestselling debut memoir, In My Own Moccasins, wowed reviewers, award juries, and readers […]
Q&A with Jennifer Manuel
Jennifer Manuel is a writer based in Vancouver Island. Her previous work, The Heaviness of Things that Float./won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. She is an activist on Indigenous issues […]
Q&A with Nikki Reimer
Nikki Reimer is a multimedia artist and writer and chronically ill neurodivergent prairie settler currently living in Mohkinstsis/Calgary. They are the author of four books of poetry and multiple essays […]
Q&A with Robin Stevenson
Robin Stevenson is the author of thirty books of fiction and non-fiction for kids and teens. Her book My Body My Choice: The Fight for Abortion Rights won the BC […]
Q&A with Lorna Crozier
Lorna Crozier is the author of more than twenty-five books and was named an Officer of the Order of Canada as one of Canada’s pre-eminent poets. In, After That, a soul-stirring collection […]
Q&A with Samantha Nock
Samantha Nock is a Cree-Métis writer/poet from the BC Peace Region in Treaty 8 Territory. Her family is originally from Ile-a-la-Crosse, SK in Treaty 10 Territory. She currently resides on […]