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 […]
Q&A 2024
Q&A with Zehra Naqvi
Zehra Naqvi is a Karachi-born writer raised on unceded Coast Salish Territories (Vancouver, B.C.). She is a winner of the 2021 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers. She also won Room’s 2016 Poetry Contest. She holds two MSc degrees from Oxford University where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar. The Knot of My Tongue: […]
Q&A with Shashi Bhat
Shashi Bhat has written three books of fiction, most recently the story collection Death by a Thousand Cuts. Her novel-in-stories, The Most Precious Substance on Earth, was a finalist for the 2022 Governor General’s Award for fiction. She is the editor of EVENT and teaches creative writing at Douglas College. Death by a Thousand Cuts is breathtaking collection […]
Q&A with Corinna Chong
Corinna Chong‘s first novel, Belinda’s Rings, was published by NeWest Press in 2013. Her debut short story collection, The Whole Animal, and her second novel, Bad Land, were published by Arsenal Pulp Press. She lives in Kelowna, B.C., where she is an English and Fine Arts Professor at Okanagan College. The Whole Animal is a bold, dark, and […]