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Q&A with Susan Mockler

Susan Mockler is a disabled writer living in Kingston, Ontario. Her stories and essays have been published in magazines across Canada and the U.S. Fractured: A Memoir is her first book. In Fractured: A […]

Q&A with Russell Thornton

Russel Thornton’s The Hundred Lives was shortlisted for the Griffin Prize. His Birds, Metals, Stones & Rain was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award and Dorothy Livesay Prize. Other collections include The Broken Face andAnswer to […]

Q&A with Renee Sarojini Saklikar

Renee Sarojini Saklikar’s books include the award-winning Children of Air India and Listening to the Bees. She was poet laureate for the City of Surrey and is co-founder and curator of Lunch Poems at […]

Q&A with Jenn Ashton

Jenn Ashton is an Award-winning Sḵwx̱wú7mesh author, artist, and filmmaker. She reads History at Oxford University and is an Authenticity Reader for Penguin/Random House USA. Previously a teaching assistant in […]

Q&A with Angela Sterritt

Angela Sterritt is an award-winning journalist, writer and artist. Sterritt has worked as a journalist for twenty years and with CBC since 2003 – as a host and multi-media reporter. She […]

Q&A with Tyler Pennock

Tyler Pennock is a Two-Spirit adoptee from a Cree and Métis family around the Lesser Slave Lake region of Alberta and is a member of Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation. They […]

Q&A with Darrel J. McLeod

Darrel J. McLeod is a Cree writer from Treaty 8 territory in Northern Alberta. Before deciding to pursue writing, he worked as an educator, chief negotiator of land claims for […]

Q&A with Wanda John-Kehewin

Wanda John-Kehewin is a Cree writer, poet, fiction author and script writer. She is an Indigenous woman searching for the truth and a way to be set free from the […]

Q&A with Luanne Armstrong

Luanne Armstrong is a multi-award-winning author.  She has written twenty-five books and has co-written or edited many others. Her most recent memoir A Bright and Steady Flame, was published by Caitlin Press in 2018. […]

Q&A with Joseph Kakwinokanasum

Joseph Kakwinokanasum is a member of the James Smith Cree Nation, a graduate of SFU’s Writers Studio, and the author of the novel, My Indian Summer (Tidewater Press, 2022). He continues […]

Q&A with Marie Metaphor Specht

Marie Metaphor Specht is a multidisciplinary artist living on the traditional territories of the Lək̓ʷəŋən and SENĆOTEN speaking peoples. A long-time member of the Canadian spoken word community, Marie is currently serving a two-year term as […]

Q&A with Sandy Ibrahim

Sandy Ibrahim is an Egyptian/German immigrant, settler and uninvited guest currently living on Lekwungen territory. She was shortlisted for the Malahat Review’s 2022 Constance Rooke Prize for her piece “Preparing […]

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