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 book of poetry by a Canadian woman, and nominations for a BC Book Prize and a Governor-General’s Award. From 2011-2014, Evelyn served as Vancouver’s Poet Laureate.…
Q&A 2020
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 Reading Evergreen Award presented by the Ontario Library Association and was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize.
Frying Plantain is can’t-put-down coming of age story, as Jamaican-Canadian Kara Davis navigates the complicated relationship between her mother and grandmother, her sometimes-friends-sometimes-bullies, and finally, herself.…
Q&A with Doreen Vanderstoop
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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 of all ages at schools, libraries, festivals, conferences and more. She leads workshops to ignite in others a passion for the power of story — oral and written. …
Q&A with 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 homelessness. Her debut novel The Lost Ones won the 2018 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize, a Strand Magazine Critics Award and Macavity Award for Best First Novel.