We writers are travellers – all travellers travelling through time from the time that we were born till the time we reach a common destination that all mortals have. As a boy on the prairies ... Read More »

As a Native writer, there are always three questions I get asked, ad nauseam, whenever I do a lecture or a reading for a non-Native audience. Question one: What do you feel about cultural appropriation? ... Read More »

Denise Chong, author of The Concubine’s Children, delivered the fifth annual Merle Shain Memorial Lecture, sponsored by the Writers’ Development Trust and York University’s Centre for Feminist Research. This is an excerpt adapted from that ... Read More »

Having recently marked three patriotic holidays (Canada Day, Independence Day, and Bastille Day), I’m wondering why there is such a dearth of historical fiction about English Canada. No, actually my ruminations began in April when ... Read More »

Both my first books were what booksellers in Britain (where I live) call “contemporary literary fiction.” Although neither book had much in the way of directly autobiographical content, the lives of my characters resembled my ... Read More »