Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is a Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg writer, scholar, and musician, and a member of Alderville First Nation. She is the author of five previous books, including This Accident of […]
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Q&A with Arleen Paré
Arleen Paré is a Victoria writer. She has published five collections of poetry, two of which are cross-genre. She has been short-listed for the BC Book Prizes Dorothy Livesay Poetry Award […]
Q&A with Danny Ramadan
Danny Ramadan is an award-winning Syrian-Canadian author and LGBTQ-refugees activist. The Clothesline Swing, Ramadan’s debut novel, won the Independent Publisher Book Award for LGBT Fiction, The Canadian Authors Association’s award […]
Q&A with John Barton
A memoir told in sonnets?! Who takes on this type of challenge — and pulls it off with poetic aplomb in 140 syllable segments! Who else but celebrated poet John […]
Q&A with Jessica Johns
Jessica Johns is a nehiyaw-English-Irish aunty and member of Sucker Creek First Nation in Treaty 8 territory in Northern Alberta. She is the Managing Editor for Room Magazine and a […]
Q&A with Joanna Lilley
Joanna Lilley is an award-winning poet living in Whitehorse. Born in the UK, Joanna has always been drawn north, crossing the Arctic Circle twice, before settling in the Yukon. Her […]
Q&A with Annick MacAskill
Annick MacAskill’s poems have appeared in journals and anthologies across Canada and abroad, including Arc, Canadian Notes & Queries, The Fiddlehead, Plenitude, Room Magazine, The Stinging Fly, and Best Canadian […]
Q&A with Zsuzsi Gartner
Vancouver writer Zsuzsi Gartner is the author of the acclaimed story collection All the Anxious Girls on Earth and the editor of the award-winning Darwin’s Bastards: Astounding Tales from Tomorrow. […]
Q&A with Madeline Sonik
Madeline Sonik is a writer, anthologist, and teacher who lives in Victoria. Her book of personal essays Afflictions & Departures, was nominated for the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction, […]
Q&A with Catherine Hernandez
Catherine Hernandez is a proud queer brown femme author and artistic director of b current performing arts. She is of Filipino, Spanish, Chinese, and Indian heritage, and she is married into […]
Q&A with Michael Prior
Michael Prior is a writer and a teacher whose poems have appeared in magazines and anthologies in North America and the U.K. He is a past winner of Magma Poetry’s […]
Q&A with Lorna Crozier
Celebrated poet Lorna Crozier’s book Through The Garden, A Love Story (with Cats) set for fall publication, is as close as you might come to portray the meaning of true […]