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Q&A 2025

Q&A with Jack Wang

Jack Wang is the author of the story collection We Two Alone, winner of the Danuta Gleed Literary Award, shortlisted for the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize, and longlisted for Canada Reads. […]

Q&A with Christine Lowther

Christine Lowther resides in ƛaʔuukwiiʔath (Tla-o-qui-aht) ha’huulthii in Nuučaańuł (Nuu-chah-nulth) territory on Vancouver Island. She is the author of four poetry collections, most recently Hazard, Home. Her memoir Born Out […]

Q&A with Emma Donoghue

Emma Donoghue is an award-winning novelist, screenwriter, and playwright. Her novel Room has sold almost three million copies, and the film adaptation was nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Picture. Her […]

Q&A with Brandon Wint

Brandon Wint is an Ontario-born poet, spoken word artist, educator, and multidisciplinary storyteller based in Vancouver. He is a sought-after touring performance poet, having shared his work in the United […]

Q&A with Shauntelle Dick-Charleson

Shauntelle Dick-Charleson/Huupʔaqsa/TSAYŁE is a Hesquiaht and Songhees poet whose work explores Indigenous themes like residential schools and intergenerational trauma. A 2019 Vic slam team member, she placed eighth nationally and […]

Q&A with Tawahum Bige

Tawahum Bige, a Łutselk’e Dene, Plains Cree poet with a BA in creative writing from Kwantlen Polytechnic University, has had poems featured in numerous publications. Their debut, Cut to Fortress, came […]

Q&A with Sonnet L’Abbé

Sonnet L’Abbé is the author of A Strange Relief, Killarnoe, and Sonnet’s Shakespeare. Their styles range from lyric to concrete and experimental, and their themes include racial, national and settler identity, relationship to […]

Q&A with Maria Reva

Maria Reva writes novels, short stories, and opera libretti. She was born in Ukraine and grew up in Vancouver BC, retaining a connection to Ukraine through visits to family. Both […]

Q&A with Christina Shah

Christina Shah lives in New Westminster and works in heavy industry. Her work was shortlisted for 2021’s Ralph Gustafson Prize and selected for Best Canadian Poetry 2023. rigveda was her […]

Q&A with Ann Y. K. Choi

Ann Y. K. Choi is a Toronto-based author and educator. Her novel, Kay’s Lucky Coin Variety, was shortlisted for the Toronto Book Award. She teaches creative writing at the University of […]

Q&A with PP Wong

PP Wong is a Vancouver-based author and screenwriter. Her novel The Life of a Banana was nominated for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. Wong completed an MFA at the University of British […]

Q&A with Madeleine Thien

Madeleine Thien’s last novel, Do Not Say We Have Nothing, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the Women’s Prize for Fiction, and the Folio Prize and won the Governor General’s Literary Award […]

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