Leanne Dunic transgresses genres and form to produce projects such as One and Half of You (Talonbooks, 2021), To Love the Coming End (Book*hug/Chin Music Press, 2017), and The Gift (Book*hug, 2019). In Wet, a transient Chinese […]
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Q&A with Dylan Clark
Dylan Clark was born in Victoria, British Columbia, on the unceded lands of the WSÁNEĆ, T’Sou-ke, Klallam and Lek’wungen peoples. He studied writing and history at UVic and is currently […]
Q&A with Yeji Y. Ham
Yeji Y. Ham is a Korean-Canadian writer. She received her BA in creative writing from UBC and MFA in literary arts from Brown University. Her works have appeared in Shorts […]
Q&A with Scott Alexander Howard
Scott Alexander Howard lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. He has a PhD in philosophy from the University of Toronto and was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard, where his work focused […]
Q&A with Sarah Cox
Sarah Cox is an award-winning journalist for The Narwhal whose work focuses on environmental issues. Her book Breaching the Peace won a BC Book Prize and was a finalist for the Writers’ Trust Shaughnessy […]
Q&A with Brandi Bird
Brandi Bird is an Indigiqueer Saulteaux, Cree, and Métis writer from Treaty 1 territory. They currently live and learn on the land of the Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh & Musqueam peoples. Bird […]
Q&A with Katłı̨̀ą
Katłı̨̀ą is a northern Dene woman who spends her time between her ancestral homelands in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories and Lekwungen speaking people’s Coast Salish Territory. She recently published her fourth novel, […]
Q&A with Pauline Holdstock
Pauline Holdstock is an award-winning novelist, short fiction writer, and essayist with books published internationally. In Canada, her work has been shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Commonwealth Writers’ […]
Q&A with Maia Caron
Maia Caron is a Vancouver Island-based Indigenous writer and author of Song of Batoche, a historical novel that was a CBC must-read book for 2018. The Toronto Star described the novel as a “tale […]
Q&A with Danny Ramadan
Danny Ramadan is a Lambda-award winning Syrian-Canadian author. His novels, The Clothesline Swing and The Foghorn Echoes continue to receive accolades. His award-winning children’s books The Salma Series continues to […]
Q&A with Bill Gaston
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 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 […]