In the dark one night I heard a perfect voice. I think it was early winter. I was driving along the edge of Dow's Lake, in Ottawa, on a road of slopes and curves, and ... Read More »
April 2, 2014 | Filed under: Authors
Traverse is a happy accident. I wrote it without knowing that I was writing a book-length poem. Its genesis was whimsical: 30 years after writing my first poems “ really, songs “ on July 1, ... Read More »
April 1, 2014 | Filed under: Authors
Marie Nightingale, one of Nova Scotia's most prolific and well-known culinary writers, died on March 15 at the age of 85. For those who grew up in the province, Nightingale's 1970 cookbook, Out of Old ... Read More »
March 18, 2014 | Filed under: Authors
In her 2013 memoir Projection: Encounters with My Runaway Mother (Dundurn Press), Toronto poet Priscila Uppal shares painful details about reuniting with her film-obsessed mother, who abandoned the family 20 years earlier. The book was ... Read More »
March 4, 2014 | Filed under: Authors
Less than four years after breaking into the children's book industry, Toronto's Debbie Ridpath Ohi landed one of the most coveted jobs in the business: illustrating covers for 10 new editions of classic Judy Blume ... Read More »
February 20, 2014 | Filed under: Authors, Children's publishing
Internationally renowned Canadian short-story author Mavis Gallant has died at 91, reports The Globe and Mail. Born in Montreal in 1922, Gallant started her career as a reporter with the Montreal Standard, but left journalism in 1950 ... Read More »
February 18, 2014 | Filed under: Authors
Since opening its doors to international jurors, the Scotiabank Giller Prize has found itself the subject of some controversy. British writer and critic Victoria Glendinning, who served on the jury in 2009, caused a stir ... Read More »
January 10, 2014 | Filed under: Authors
Halifax poet Zachariah Wells is on his way overseas to hear his work performed at the Opéra National in Paris. Last year, Canadian baritone singer Phillip Addis approached Wells about adapting several of his poems ... Read More »
January 10, 2014 | Filed under: Authors
In March 2012, I pitched a book with the working title How Poetry Saved My Life to my publisher, Arsenal Pulp Press. It was a lousy pitch that suffered from being overambitious. The original idea ... Read More »
November 25, 2013 | Filed under: Authors
When Eleanor Catton won the Governor General's Literary Award for English-language fiction earlier this week, she said that the winning book, an 850-page tome about the disappearance of a wealthy man during one of New ... Read More »
November 15, 2013 | Filed under: Authors
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