Francesca Ekwuyasi is a writer, artist, and filmmaker born in Lagos, Nigeria. Her work explores themes of faith, family, queerness, consumption, loneliness, and belonging. Her writing has been published in Winter […]
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Q&A with Julie Paul
Victoria’s Julie Paul is the author of three short fiction collections, The Jealousy Bone, The Pull of the Moon, and Meteorites, and the poetry collection The Rules of the Kingdom. […]
Q&A with Jen Sookfong Lee
Jen Sookfong Lee is a BC writer who has written three adult novels (including The Conjoined, which was nominated for the International Dublin Literary Award), creative non-fiction, as well as several […]
Q&A with Tamara Goranson
Tamara Goranson is the author of three works of historical fiction in the Vinland Viking series publishing with Harper Collins. She holds a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, and she works […]
Q&A with Carla Funk
Carla Funk was born and raised in Vanderhoof, one of the earliest Mennonite settlements in British Columbia, Canada. She is the author of the memoir Every Little Scrap and Wonder, which […]
Q&A with Susan Olding
Susan Olding’s debut collection, Pathologies: A Life in Essays, was selected by 49th Shelf and Amazon.ca as one of 100 Canadian books to read in a lifetime. Her essays, fiction, and poetry appear widely […]
Q&A with M.A.C. Farrant
M.A.C. (Marion) Farrant is the award-winning author of seventeen works of fiction, memoirs, and two plays. She has published eight books with Talonbooks, the most recent being her trio of miniature fiction: The […]
Q & A with Darrel J. McLeod
Darrel J. McLeod is Cree from treaty eight territory in Alberta. Darrel was a chief negotiator of land claims for the federal government and executive director of education and international affairs […]
Q&A with Glenn Dixon
Glenn Dixon is living the dream in double time, combining his passions for writing and playing rock ‘n’ roll into the novel, Bootleg Stardust. In fact, the protagonist in the novel, […]
Q&A with Dallas Hunt
Dallas Hunt is Cree and a member of Wapsewsipi (Swan River First Nation) in Treaty 8 territory in northern Alberta. His creative work is published in Contemporary Verse 2, Prairie Fire, PRISM international, and Arc […]
Q&A with Hiromi Goto
Hiromi Goto is an emigrant from Japan who gratefully resides in Lekwungen Territory. Her first novel, Chorus of Mushrooms, won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best First Book, Canada and Caribbean Region, […]
Q&A with Patrick Friesen
Patrick Friesen has published more than a dozen books of poetry, a book of essays, stage and radio plays, and has co-translated, with Per Brask, five books of Danish poetry, […]