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Poetry Month Q&A: K.I. Press on motherhood and her latest collection

Originally from rural Alberta, poet K.I. Press has lived in Toronto, Vancouver, Edmonton, and Ottawa. She’s now lived in Winnipeg for a decade, long enough, she says, that it “has slowed down the pace at ... Read More »

April 29, 2015 | Filed under: Authors, Writing life

Graphic novel The Outside Circle aims to become a tool for aboriginal healing

By Alex Migdal

Racial prejudices continue to fester in Edmonton, home to Canada’s second-largest aboriginal population, and the setting for Patti LaBoucane-Benson and Kelly Mellings’ graphic novel The Outside Circle, published by House of Anansi Press. For the ... Read More »

April 28, 2015 | Filed under: Authors

Q&A: Kathy Kacer on her new play, collaborating with her son, and writing about the Holocaust

By Dory Cerny

Since the 1999 publication of her first novel for young readers, The Secret of Gabi’s Dresser (Second Story Press), Kathy Kacer has built a career on informing readers about the Holocaust in her children’s fiction ... Read More »

April 28, 2015 | Filed under: Authors, Children's publishing

Poetry Month Q&A: Pamela Mordecai on recording her canon

By Sarah Kester

On a recent trip to Newfoundland, Jamaican-Canadian writer Pamela Mordecai recorded 25 years worth of her poetry in a pilot project created by Memorial University English professor Stephanie McKenzie. The project took five days to ... Read More »

April 27, 2015 | Filed under: Authors

Poetry Month Q&A: Bren Simmers on writing from and to her neighbourhood

By Ariel Gordon

Bren Simmers’ second collection, Hastings-Sunrise (Nightwood Editions), is a long poem that spans a year of living in the East Vancouver residential neighbourhood, one of the city's oldest. Though she is now based in Squamish, ... Read More »

April 21, 2015 | Filed under: Authors

Q&A: Kids Can Press senior editor and author Stacey Roderick

By Dory Cerny

Ever wondered what it’s like to (temporarily) hang up your editor’s hat and write your own book? To have it published by your employer? We asked Kids Can Press senior editor Stacey Roderick, whose first ... Read More »

April 16, 2015 | Filed under: Authors, Children's publishing

Poetry Month Q&A: Sue Goyette on approaches to healing and her new poem, The Brief Reincarnation of a Girl

By Sarah Kester

Massachusetts, 2006. A four-year-old girl died from an overdose of drugs used to treat ADHD and bipolar disorder. Her parents were convicted of her murder. Sue Goyette's new poetry collection, The Brief Reincarnation of a Girl (Gaspereau ... Read More »

April 15, 2015 | Filed under: Authors

Courtney Summers’ #ToTheGirls trends on Twitter

By Becky Robertson

Ontario YA author Courtney Summers has taken over social media yet again after having her latest title, All the Rage, picked up by Tumblr's reblog book club earlier this month. The author, who is known ... Read More »

April 15, 2015 | Filed under: Authors, Book news

80 years of Q&Q: comics & graphica, from Captain Canuck to D&Q

By Q&Q Staff

Canadian comics get a second chance The mid- to late 1970s brought a wave of nostalgia to comics, and with it, Canada’s Silver Age. These comics, consistent in their production values with most mainstream (i.e., ... Read More »

April 14, 2015 | Filed under: Authors, Book culture, People, Writing life

80 years of Q&Q: notable titles, from cookbooks to LGBT classics

By Q&Q Staff

BRANDING GENERATION X Douglas Coupland’s debut novel wasn’t an instant hit when it was published in the spring of 1991, but it didn’t take long before critics and media saw the appeal in combining the ... Read More »

April 14, 2015 | Filed under: Authors, Book culture, People, Writing life

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