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Q&A with Shaena Lambert

Shaena Lambert

Shaena Lambert’s first novel, Radiance, and two books of stories Oh, My Darling and The Falling Woman, were all Globe and Mail best books of the year. Her fiction has […]

Q&A with Jane Munro

Jane Munro

Glass Float is Jane Munro’s seventh poetry collection. For more than 20 years, she has studied and practised Iyengar Yoga in Canada and in India.  Her experience of yoga illuminates […]

Q&A with Evelyn Lau

Evelyn Lau is the Vancouver author of thirteen books, including eight volumes of poetry. Her poetry has received the Milton Acorn People’s Poetry Award, the Pat Lowther Award for best […]

Q&A with Zalika Reid-Benta

Zalika Reid-Benta is a Toronto-based writer with an MFA from Columbia University. Her writing debut, an inter-connected short story collection, Frying Plantain has been nominated for the 2020 Forest of […]

Q&A with Doreen Vanderstoop

Doreen Vanderstoop author photo credit Courtney Barr

Doreen Vanderstoop is a Calgary-based writer, storyteller and musician. As a storyteller/ musician, she intersperses songs among tales of all genres, including her own original stories. Doreen performs for audi­ences […]

Q&A with Sheena Kamal

Sheena Kamal

Sheena Kamal holds an HBA in Political Science from the University of Toronto, and was awarded a TD Canada Trust scholarship for community leadership and activism around the issue of […]

Q&A with Ariel Gordon

Ariel Gordon 

With intimacy and humour award-winning poet Ariel Gordon walks us through the streets of Winnipeg and into the urban forest that is, to her, the city’s heart… Whether it is […]

Q&A with Carla Funk

Francis Carla Funk

“Vivid, hilarious, enormously entertaining” was one reviewer’s response (Andreas Schroeder) to Carla Funk’s first, and marvelous, memoir of her Mennonite childhood in Vanderhoof BC: Every Little Scrap and Wonder. She is the […]

Q&A with Julie Paul

Julie Paul is the author of four books, the latest of which Meteorites has just been released. The Pull of the Moon received both an IPPY award and her hometown […]

Q&A with Eve Joseph

Eve Joseph is the author of Quarrels which won the prestigious 2019 Griffin Poetry Prize and shortlisted for Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize 2019, beautifully show her poetic play in tension with truths unravelling in unlikely images and […]

Q&A with Darrel J. McLeod

Darrel J McLeod

Darrel J. McLeod is the author of Mamaskatch. A Cree Coming of Age. It has been described as “A heartbreakingly candid memoir of A Cree boy’s resilience and grace in […]

Q&A With Kate Braid

Kate Braid is the author of several award-winning poetry books and nonfiction books, ranging from her construction job experiences to Emily Carr to Glenn Gould. She left her carpentry career for what […]

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