Corinne Wasilewski is the author of Live from the Underground (Mansfield Press, 2015). Her short stories have appeared in Front & Centre, The Windsor Review, The Nashwaak Review, The Battered Suitcase and most recently the anthology Polish(ed): Poland Rooted in Canadian Fiction. Her interview with Alden Nowlan is in the [...]
Credit: Sharon Porty Brent van Staalduinen is the author of the novel SAINTS, UNEXPECTED (Invisible Publishing). His short stories have won The Bristol Short Story Prize, the Lush Triumphant Literary Award, the Fiddlehead Best Short Story Award, and have appeared in Riddle Fence, The New Quarterly, EVENT, Prairie [...]
Photo credit: Corrine May Gerald Arthur (Art) Moore is a high school teacher, rugby coach and university lecturer. NON Publishing is releasing his forthcoming book Shatter the Glass, Shards of Flame in the Fall 2018. Moore, a poet and playwright, was formerly a commissioned officer in the Army [...]
A few weeks ago, rob mclennan published my entry for his latest project "My (small press) writing day". He's doing a Canadian version of The Guardian's "My Writing Day". You'd think these essays would start to sound the same after a while, but the range of expression is astounding. Posts [...]
Credit: Marta Taylor Rob Taylor is the author of the poetry collections "Oh Not So Great": Poems from the Depression Project (Leaf Press, 2017), The News (Gaspereau Press, 2016) and The Other Side of Ourselves (Cormorant Books, 2011). The News was a finalist for the 2017 Dorothy Livesay [...]
If you feel shut out and shut down because the oppressive and ever-present patriarchy that rules every editor's desk leads to the rejection of your gender and the subject matter of your stories, there's hope. If you feel that an ultra-progressive, politically correct agenda has seeped into every classroom, every [...]
Male and white AF, the bastard had it coming. My recent interview with Sarah Taggart brought up the concept of writing up and writing down. I was still trying to absorb it as I engaged in a lengthy debate on the topic with one of Sarah's friends on [...]
Photo credit: Ravin Bansie Sarah L. Taggart has published in The Malahat Review, The Fiddlehead, Journey Prize Stories and a Winnipeg zine called 1234V. She has some degrees and has lived a lot of places and has worked many jobs (never as a lumberjack, though) and currently calls [...]
Bio: I was born and raised in Ontario, then spent most of my twenties roofing, landscaping, and manual labouring in Nova Scotia and British Columbia. In 2015, I received an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of New Brunswick, where one of my stories won The David H. Walker [...]
Photo credit: Rafal Gerszak Caroline Adderson is the award-winning author of four novels, two collections of short stories, as well as many books for young readers. She is also the editor and co-contributor of a non-fiction book of essays and photographs, Vancouver Vanishes: Narratives of Demolition and Revival. [...]
Recently I submitted an application to the National Magazine Awards at a cost of $107.35, even though that's not the way it works. Usually the journal that originally published your work thinks you're so great that they do the application for you, betting that your story will be selected from [...]
Lucas Crawford, born in Halifax and raised in rural Nova Scotia, is a poet and Assistant Professor of English Literature at the University of New Brunswick. Lucas has published two books: Sideshow Concessions (Invisible Press 2015), which won the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry, and, Transgender Architectonics (a scholarly [...]
