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 studying Community planning at UBC. He has worked various jobs as a bookstore clerk, farmhand, and sailmaker. In addition, he volunteered during his undergraduate studies […]
Q&A 2024
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 (Platypus Press), Wilderness Journal, Rivet Journal, The Broome Street Review, and No Tokens. The Invisible Hotel is her first novel. A stunning debut novel of […]
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 on the relationship between memory, emotion, and literature. The Other Valley is his first novel. Connect with him at ScottAlexanderHoward.com. The Other Valley follows the story of Odile Ozanne, […]
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 Cohen Prize for Political Writing. She lives in Victoria, B.C. In her new book Signs of Life: Field Notes from the Frontlines of Extinction, Sarah […]
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 works as a freelance writer, workshop facilitator, and manuscript consultant. They are currently an MFA candidate in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia […]
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, Firekeeper. She is a mother, grandmother and articling lawyer. Katłı̨̀ą’s forthcoming work, Mother Earth is our Elder, is a non-fiction collection based on interviews with […]
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’ Prize, and others, and has won the BC Book Prizes Award for Fiction and the City of Victoria Butler Book Prize. Pauline is taking part […]
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 of love, betrayal and obsession,” and Shelagh Rogers of The Last Chapter said it was an “ambitious, broad, sweeping, historical mystery.” The Last Secret is a sweeping, […]
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 grow. Ramadan has raised over $300,000 for LGBTQ+ refugees. His memoir, Crooked Teeth, came out in the summer of 2024. “Writing this memoir is a […]
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 General’s, Giller, BC and Victoria Book Prizes. He has also written novels, memoir and drama. He lives with writer Dede Crane on Gabriola Island. Bill […]
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 memoir Half-Bads in White Regalia, which was long-listed for Canada Reads and received an Indigenous Voices Award for Best Published Prose. Caetano, who is of […]
Q&A with Jen Currin
Jen Currin‘s new collection of stories is Disembark, published by House of Anansi. Their collection Hider/Seeker: Stories won a Canadian Independent Book Award, was a finalist for a ReLit Award, and was named a 2018 Globe and Mail Best Book. They have also published five collections of poetry, most recently Trinity Street (Anansi, 2023); The […]