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2012 Canadian Literary Festivals: Guide to the Pre-Season
These literary festivals are a spring-like harbinger of packed weekends to come.
Gerry Fostaty on reliving a youthful trauma in his memoir As You Were: The Tragedy at Valcartier
Julie Wilson: The tragedy of which you speak in your book, As You Were: The Tragedy at Valcartier occurred in 1974 on a Canadian Forces Base in Valcartier, …
Five Canadian speculative fiction titles for literary readers/ Five Canadian literary titles for speculative fiction readers (by Leah Bobet)
Novelist Leah Bobet on the best Canadian authors writing on the border between speculative and literary fiction.
No Solitudes: Leah Bobet on CanLit's genre-bilingualism
"Just as whole schools of Canadian novelists speak in echoed and doubled voices, whispering in two languages and two countries at once, we are quietly …
"The scarlet tunic! What a story!”: Daniel Francis on how the Mounties became a national symbol
"To read the history of the Mounties' roots is to ignore the force’s modern origins as a domestic spy agency working clandestinely to stamp out legal, …
Win 1 of 5 Copies of Your First Home: A Buyer's Kit by Kimberley Marr. #realestate #homebuyers #givecdn
Rent or buy? Build your own home or fix one up? RE/MAX broker Kimberley Marr—Your First Home: A Buyer's Kit—talks about the choices facing new home …
Is social ostracism what it takes to be a writer? Guest post by writer/artist/designer Chris von Szombathy
"If Mr. Wilson was correct that unpopularity creates writers out of people then I am sure that we all have enough tools to all become writers. Pain, whether …
Great Picture Books Recommended by Author/Illustrator Patricia Storms
From flocks of shoes to purple worlds, Patricia Storms recommends a load of excellent Canadian picture books.
In Conversation: Kate Inglis discusses her novel The Dread Crew: Pirates of the Backwoods
The hilarious Kate Inglis discusses her The Dread Crew: Pirates of the Backwoods, juvenile fiction from Nimbus Publishing.
"Free fall beneath the carpet": David Rotenberg on setting The Placebo Effect in Toronto
"Toronto is in motion – it’s in the swirling, anarchic process of becoming."