Memoir Posts
Books for International Women's Day
Great books telling the stories of amazing women.
The Chat with Mary Fairhurst Breen
This week, we chat with Mary Fairhurst Breen. With fierce honesty and leavening humour, her debut memoir Any Kind of Luck At All (Second Story Press) explores …
Books for Black History Month—And All Year Long
New books telling the stories of Black Canadians.
Shattering Effects: Living With Violence and War
A recommended reading list by the author of Peacekeeper's Daughter: A Middle East Memoir.
Struggling Through Pandemonium
Donna Morrissey's legions of fans have been drawn for years to her novels, including Sylvanus Now and Kit's Law. Her latest book is Pluck, "A memoir of …
8 Books that Explore Memory and Place
A recommended reading list by the author of the new novel DUMB-SHOW.
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Genre-Bending Memoirs
A recommended reading list by Rowan McCandless (author of Persephone’s Children) who is appearing at the Winnipeg International Writers Festival's …
16 Indigenous Reads: A List from Kobo
This post originally appeared on the Kobo blog and is presented here with permission. To check out the audiobook versions of the books, head over to Kobo! …
On Telling the Truth in Politics
An excerpt from new memoir The Queer Evangelist, Cheri DiNovo's story of her life as a queer minister, politician and staunch activist for LGBTQ rights. …
How Does a Woman Become a Writer?
"The writers who interest me most, always, are women who write about themselves in ways that a male writer never could."