Alissa York’s internationally acclaimed novels include Mercy, Effigy (shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize), Fauna and The Naturalist. Her most recent novel, Far Cry, was partly inspired by time she spent as a child with her dad […]
Previous Q&A
Q&A with Robert Bringhurst
Robert Bringhurst, winner of the Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence and former Guggenheim Fellow in poetry, trained in sciences at MIT but made his career in the humanities. He is […]
Q&A with Ian & Will Ferguson
Ian Ferguson won the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour for Village of the Small Houses and is the co-author, with his brother, Will, of How to Be a Canadian. A writer and creative […]
Q&A with Daniel Allen Cox
Daniel Allen Cox is the author of four novels and I Felt the End Before It Came: Memoirs of a Queer Ex-Jehovah’s Witness. Daniel’s essays have appeared in The Guardian, […]
Q&A with Kathy Stinson
Among Kathy Stinson‘s 40+ books are the classic Red Is Best, the award-winning The Man with the Violin, and three biographies about outstanding women. She has enjoyed meeting with readers, always dressed, […]
Q&A with Jess Housty
Jess Housty (‘Cúagilákv) is a parent, writer and grassroots activist with Heiltsuk and mixed settler ancestry. They serve their community as an herbalist and land-based educator. They are inspired and […]
Q&A with Christy Jordan-Fenton
Christy Jordan-Fenton is the author of four award-winning books about her Inuvialuk mother Margaret Olemaun Pokiak-Fenton’s time attending an Indian Residential School in the high Arctic during the 1940s. Though […]
Q&A with Natalie Virginia Lang
Natalie Virginia Lang is a writer and teacher who has written several book reviews for The BC Review and has won multiple awards from Simon Fraser University for her work in the Graduate […]
Q&A with Katłįà Lafferty
Katłįà Lafferty is Dene, Cree, French and American from the Northwest Territories, and a current UVic law student. She is the author of the memoir, Northern Wildflower, and two novels: Land-Water-Sky, about Dene […]
Q&A with Susan Sanford Blades
Susan Sanford Blades Susan Sanford Blades’ debut novel, Fake It So Real, won the 2021 ReLit Award in the novel category and was a finalist for the 2021 BC and Yukon […]
Q&A with Paul Dhillon
Paul Dhillon (he/him) is a second-generation newcomer to Canada. He lives on the unceded and ancestral lands of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations, where he is a high school […]
Q&A with Sonnet L’Abbe
Sonnet L’Abbé is a Canadian poet, performer, editor, and professor. They are the author of A Strange Relief, Killarnoe, Anima Canadensis and Sonnet’s Shakespeare. They teach Creative Writing and English at Vancouver Island University, and are […]