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Mohamad Kebbewar’s Writing Space
When I lived in Vancouver and Calgary I used to write in coffee shops because I find white noise to be very inspiring. I’m now in Aleppo for a couple of months visiting my parents and witnessing the destruction of the old city. I write in my office because writing in coffee shops can be […]
Jenny Boychuk’s Writing Space
When my mother passed away suddenly a few years ago, I was just finishing a post-graduate fellowship at the University of Michigan, where I’d completed my MFA. I had no idea what I was going to do next, so I thought I’d go home to Blind Bay, B.C. and spend the summer with my father. […]
What is Jody Baltessen Reading?
Two books I’m reading now are David Kishik’s The Manhattan Project: A Theory of a City, and Layli Long Soldier’s Whereas: Poems. In The Manhattan Project, Kishik employs the ghost of Walter Benjamin – The Arcades Project, a fragmented chronicle of 19th century Paris – to ghostwrite the story of New York City through the assembly of bits of text, quotations and […]
Marilyn Bowering’s Writing Space
Here, at my desk, standing on a treadmill, I am completely at home. I could start the treadmill and walk slowly—movement helps when I am writing poetry—but more often, I only stand and prop my elbows on the desk surface. In every work space I’ve had, I face a window. You cannot see the window […]
David Yerex Williamson’s Writing Space
I generally write two ways, in long hand and on my laptop. I take notes during my day, a snippet of a conversation, an image I see in my travels. I live in a rural remote community where the act of writing is not always seen, even less, understood. I take the notebook and at […]
Gena Ellett’s Writing Space
Up until recently, I resisted having a writing desk. I had one when I first moved to Vancouver from the Sunshine Coast, because I assumed it was proper for a writer to have somewhere to sit down and write, and all I wanted was to be a writer. Hadn’t I moved from my small town […]
What is Cynthia Flood Reading?
Recently I read Walter Kempowski’s novel All For Nothing, set in East Prussia in spring 1945. The Russian army’s arriving soon but a once well-to-do family can’t accept that fact. They temporize, fantasize, lie, betray, hold on pathetically to their disappearing lives. Only one survives. Kempowski’s a powerful writer. His theme of decay and collapse […]
Lisa Alward’s Writing Space
I can and do write almost anywhere — in coffee shops and libraries, on planes and in cars, in bed, on the floor, and occasionally at my desk — but my favourite writing space is a small blue upholstered chair that used to belong to my mother. This chair has a matching footstool where […]
What’s Aviva Martin Reading?
When I started writing short fiction, I only wanted to read short stories. I browsed the library shelves to bring home anthologies where I discovered wonderful, new-to-me, authors—William Gay, Lorrie Moore, Anne Enright—then found their own collections and read them, cover to cover. I bought Canadian literary journals—Room, Prism, and others, coast to coast. That […]
Launched: The Amateurs by Liz Harmer
Welcome to Launched! The Launched series focuses on new Canadian books by Canadian authors. Liz Harmer’s debut novel The Amateurs was published by Knopf Canada in 2018 as part of the Knopf New Face of Fiction program, receiving starred reviews from The Quill & Quire and Publishers Weekly. She has also published essays and short stories, including a […]
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